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pines, frequently planted in other parts of tropical Asia. Not 

 before recorded from China proper, although known from 

 Hainan. 



LORANTHACEAE 



LOR AN THUS Linnaeus 



LORANTHUS PENTANDRUS Linn. Mant. 1 (1767) 63; Blume Fl. Jav. 

 Loranth. (1828) 33, t. 10; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 5 (1886) 216. 



Kwangtung Province, Sai Sha, Sz Ooi, Groff 2403, April 24, 

 1918. 



This species has not previously been reported from China ; the 

 specimens agree closely with the descriptions and with our 

 rather full series of Malayan specimens. 



iffi* LORANTHUS PARASITICUS (Linn.) comb. nov. 



Scurrula parasitica Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 110, excl. syn. Camell et 



Petiver. 

 Lorantkus scurrula Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 2 (1762) 472, non auct. plur. 

 Lorantlms estipitatus Stapf. (p. p.) in Trans. Linn. Soc. Bot. 4 (1894) 



221; Forbes & Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 26 (1844) 405; 



Dunn & Tutcher Fl. Hongk. Kwangtung (1912) 229 (as to the 



Chinese plant). 



Kwangtung Province, vicinity of Canton, Merrill 9987, Levine 

 1277, 1866, 1948, Groff 2314. Hongkong, Hongkong Herbarium 

 1232. 



The history of this species is as follows : The original binomial, 

 Scurrula parasitica Linn., was manifestly based on a specimen, 

 indicated by Linnaeus as originating in China, and in all prob- 

 ability collected by Osbeck near Canton ; to the species Linnaeus 

 erroneously referred "Viscum vitici innascens Camell. luz. 3 n. 

 36. Pet. gaz. t. 23, f. 8." Camell's description was based on 

 specimens from Naic, Cavite Province, Luzon, and is manifestly 

 Loranthus philippensis Cham. & Schlecht., an endemic Philip- 

 pine species. Petiver's figure was in all probability based on 

 Camell's drawing or on specimens from him, and a copy of the 

 figure kindly supplied by Mr. Oakes Ames shows that it also 

 represents Loranthus philippe?isis Cham. & Schlecht. The Lin- 

 nean description does not apply to Loranthus philippensis Cham. 

 & Schlecht., but does apply word for word to the Chinese 

 form currently referred to Loranthus estipitatus Stapf, which 

 is the commonest species of Loranthus found in the vicinity of 

 Canton, the region in which Osbeck botanized. It does not apply 

 to Loranthus scurrula of modern authors. In the second edition 

 of the Species Plantarum Linnaeus made Scurrula parasitica the 



