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namely, tlie first named on Java, Bornéo, Sumatra and Celebes, the second 

 on Java, the third and fourth in Northern Celebes, the fifth on the Philip- 

 pines; whereas the last one lives in Siam, a country with a flora that 

 possesses obvions Malayan affinities. In fine, 1 think there can be no 

 objection against uniting those six „species" under the name of Camellia 

 lanceolata (Bl.) Seem. 



Especially as regards „Thea lasiostyla" and „T. montana''' it is not 

 difficult to indicate the causes that hâve led to the erroneous idea that 

 they were nev;^ species In the former case the monographer Kochs has 

 inconceivably made the same omission as Seemann: overlooking the fact 

 that this plant, described as a new species, had ail the characteristics of 

 C. lanceolata, and that the latter possessed a staminal tube '); as a consé- 

 quence, in his détermination table on p. 580 C. lanceolata occupies an 

 entirely wrong position, it ought to stand far from C. theifera and has 

 rather Eiicamellia-ieàtures (such as the short pedicel, the remarkable 

 imhricite pointed flower-buds and the distinct periodicity in shooting). 



') I. VON SzYSZYLOWicz (1893, p. 184) gives a correct diagnosis of C. lanceolata. 



