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strigose-hirsute with widely scattered, short hairs, the lower 

 surface sparingly pubescent with widely scattered, short, cine- 

 reous hairs on the midrib, nerves, reticulations, and epidermis; 

 lateral nerves about 10 on each side of the midrib, distinct; 

 petioles 5 to 10 mm long; stipules coriaceous, persistent, or- 

 bicular-reniform, somewhat hirsute, 7 to 9 mm wide, rounded, 

 sometimes contracted below and distinctly stipitate. Panicles 

 terminal, ample, up to 20 cm long and wide, densely cinereous- 

 villous. Flowers very numerous, densely crowded in glomerules 

 on the ultimate branches ; bracts 5 to 7 mm long. Calyx densely 

 cinereous-villous, about 2.5 mm long, the lobes oblong. Corolla- 

 tube 4 to 5 mm long, slender, glabrous externally, sparingly 

 pubescent within. 



Kwangtung Province, Kochow region, Shek Kau Tong, To 

 Rang P'eng 2691 (type) , March 6, 1919. To this species I also 

 refer the following specimens, both described as shrubs about 

 2 m high, both with somewhat smaller leaves than the type and 

 with unopened flowers: To Rang P'eng 275U, 2702, the former 

 from Sheung Ko Wan, with the local name fo shiu nap, the latter 

 from Shek Ling, with the local name chii lilt shii. 



This species is manifestly allied to Wendlandia paniculata 

 (Roxb.) DC, the type of which was from the Molucca Islands. 

 Comparison with Amboina material, Robinson 1731, represent- 

 ing the typical form of Roxburgh's species, shows that the 

 Chinese form differs radically in its very densely cinereous- 

 villous inflorescences and calyces, and in its very densely crowded 

 flowers, in the disposition of the flowers strongly resembling 

 Wendlandia tinctoria DC. The Chinese form described by Hance 

 as Wendlandia uvariifolia has been reduced to Wendlandia pani- 

 culata DC. It is represented by Levine 2338, from the North 

 River region, and is distinctly different from Wendlandia pani- 

 culata and I believe should be retained as of specific rank under 

 Hance's name. It differs from both Wendlandia paniculata DC. 

 and W. chinensis Merr. in its leaves being rather densely ferru- 

 ginous-pubescent beneath, while the disposition of the flowers 

 and the indumentum of the inflorescences and calyces are quite 

 different from the latter species. 



MUSSAENDA Linnaeus 



MUSSAENDA PARVI FLORA Miq. Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. 3 (1867) 

 110. 



Kwangtung Province, Ting Woo Mountain and at Wan Lo 

 Mountain, Kochow region, Levine 1979, To Rang P'eng 2692, 

 April, 1918, and March, 1919. 



