102 ME. H. N. EIDLEY ON PLANTS 



Allied to S. ohlusifoUa, J. J. Smith, but the leaves are longer, the venation is different, 

 and the corolla almost uniformly hairy within. 



PRIMULACE.E. 



(By S. MooEE.) 



Lysimachia japonica, Thunh. Fl. Jap. 83. 

 ^ Var. PAPTJANA, S. Moore, var. nov. Caulis (ut folia calycesque) densiuscule pubescens. 

 Folia suborbicularia, summum 10x9 mm., plerumque circa 8x7 mm. Fedunculi 

 2-5 mm. longi. 

 Camps VIII to IX, 4900 to 5500 ft. 

 Distrih. (of type). East Asia to Australia. 

 This seems inseparable from the type except for the pubescence. 



MYRSINACE^. 



(By S. Moore.) 

 \ Maesa Klossii, S. Moore, sp. nov. 



Ramuli subteretes, superne foliosi, glabri. Folia oblongo-lanceolata, apicem versus 

 attenuata, apice obtusa, basi in petiolum brevem sensim extenuata, margine 

 imdulata, pergamacea, utrinsecus glabra, 13-16 X 3'5-4-5 cm. Racemi + 4 cm. longi, 

 in foliorum delapsorum axillis plerumque bini, petiolos circiter 4-plo excedentes, 

 graciles, sat laxe florigeri, glabri. FecUcelU graciles, 2" mm. longi, floribus plane 

 longiores ; bractese bracteolseque parvulfe. Calycis segmenta tubo longiora, late 

 ovata, obtusa, nigro-lineata, 1'2 mm. longa. Corolla 5-mera, calycem superans, 

 fere 2 mm. longa, vix medium usque lobata, lobis ovatis obtusis reflexis lineis 

 paucis f uscis percursis, 0'75 mm. longis. Stamina quam corollas tubus breviora ; 

 antherse filamentis circiter aequilongae, 0*3 mm. longse. Ovarium semisuperum, 

 superne 5-lobulatum, quam stigma crassum longius, 1"75 mm. longum. 

 Canoe Camp, 150 ft. 



Apparently a shrub with lanky branches, themselves giving off subdistant leafing 

 branchlets. Leaves greyish when dry above, brownish below ; lateral nerves about ten 

 on each side of the midrib, and, like the latter, more conspicuous on the underside ; 

 l^etioles stout, about 1 cm. long. Bracts subulate, about 1 mm. long, rather longer than 

 %i the lanceolate bracteoles. 



Fruit not seen. 

 Near M. ramentacea. Wall., differing in shape of leaf and inflorescence. 



Maesa ruficaulis, S. Moore, sp. nov. 



Flanta vei'isimiliter dioica. Hamuli bene foliati, aliquantulum anfracti, rufo-hirsuti. 

 Folia breviter petiolata, oblongo-ovata, sat longe acuminata, apice acuta, basi 

 rotundata leviterve cordata, margine denticulata vol breviter dentata, pergamacea, 

 utrinque costis plus minus rufo-pilosia prsesertim paginte inferioris exemptis glabra. 



