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ACANTHACEAE 



HEMIGRAPHIS Nees 



^ HEMIGRAPHIS PROCUMBENS (Lour.) comb. nov. 



Barleria prociimbens Lour. PI. Cochinch. (1790) 377. 

 Ruellia chinensis Nees in DC. Prodr. 11 (1847) 147. 

 Hemigraphis chinensis T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 26 (1890) 



238. 

 Strobilanthes scaber Hance in Journ. Bot. 16 (1878) 231, non Nees. 



Loureiro's material was from the vicinity of Canton, where 

 the species is still common, and on account of its yellow flowers 

 is rather conspicuous in dry thickets. His description applies 

 unmistakably to the species currently known as Hemigraphis 

 chinensis T. Anders. It is represented by Merrill 10135 and 

 Levine 181. 



CAPRIFOLIACEAE 



LONICERA Linnaeus 



LONICERA DASYSTYLA Render in Rept. Mo. Bot. Gard. 14 (1903) 158, 

 t. U, f. 1-3. 



Kwangtung Province, North River, Sai Sha, Sz Ooi, Groff 

 2402, April 24, 1918, with the local name kam ngan fa. 



The specimen agrees closely with Rehder's figure and descrip- 

 tion, differing in but few minor details. The leaves average 

 smaller than in the type and are glabrous, while the older 

 branchlets are brownish rather than grayish. The pubescent 

 style is characteristic. Previously reported only from Tonkin. 



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CUCURBITACEAE 



GYMNOPETALUM Arnott 



GYMNOPETALUM CHINENSE (Lour.) comb. nov. 



Euonymus chinensis Lour. Fl. Cochinch. (1790) 156. 

 Bryonia cochinchinensis Lour. op. cit. 595. 



Gymnopetalum cochinchinense Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 40 2 

 (1871) 57; Cogn. in DC. Monog. Phan. 3 (1881) 391. 



Both of Loureiro's descriptions apply unmistakably to the 

 species currently known as Gymnopetalum cochinchinense Kurz, 

 and it is indeed curious that he should have placed a cucurbita- 

 ceous plant in the celastraceous genus Euonymus. The type of 

 Euonymus chinensis was from the vicinity of Canton, for which 

 Loureiro records the Cantonese name kam qua. It is repre- 

 sented by the following recently collected material from the 

 vicinity of Canton, with the recorded names ka shut kwah and 

 ye kwah, Levine 1108, 1705, 2183. 



