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dera strychnifolla var. ? Ilenisley in Jour. Linn. Soc xxvi. 302 (1891). 

 Lindcra strychnifolia var. Ilcmslcyana Diels in Bot. Jahrb. xxix. So*^ (1900). 



China: Ilupeh, Szechuan. 



Benzoin supracostatum, comb. nov. — Lindera supracostata II. Lecomte 

 in Nouv. Arch. Mus. Nat. Ilist. Paris, ser. 5, v. 113 (1!)13). 



China: Yunnan. 



Benzoin umbellatum, comb. nov. — Lindera umbellafa Thtmberg, Fl. 



Jap. 145, t. 21 (1784). — Sasaafras Thunbergii Siehold in \ erh. BaL. Genoot. 

 XII. pt. I. 23 (Syn. PI. Oec. Jap.) (1830). — Benzoin Thunbergii Siebold & 

 Zuccarini in Abh. Akad. Muench. iv. pt. iii. 204 (Fl. Jap. Fam. Nat. ii. 80) 

 (1846), ex parte, excludenda descript. — Lindera memhranacca Maxi- 

 mowlcz in Bull Acad. Sci. St. Petersb; xii. 72 (1867); in Mel. Biol. vi. 175 

 (1867). — Benzoin membranaccum Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. i. 5G9 (1891). 



Japan. Citina: Chekiang. 



From China I have seen only a specimen from Xingpo, Chekiang, col- 

 lected by D. Macgregor in 1908 which probably belongs here. All the other 

 specimens referred by Ilemsley and Gamble to Lindera unihcllata as far as 

 I have seen them, belong to Litsea sericea which see. 



Benzoin umbellatixm var. h3rpoglaucum, comb. nov. — Lindera hypoglauca 

 Maximowicz in Bull. Acad. Sci. St. Petersb. xii. 72 (1867); in Mel. Biol. vi. 

 274 (1867). — Benzoin hypoleucum Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. i. 569 (1891). 

 Benzoin hypoglaucum Rehder in Bailey, Cycl. Am. Ilort. i. 153.(1901). — 

 LJndera umbellata var. hypoglauca Makino in Tokyo Bot. Mag. xiv. 185 

 (1900). 



Japan. 



Benzoin umbellatum var. sericeum, comb, nov, — Benzoin scriceum Sie- 

 bold & Zuccarini in Abh. Akad. Muench. iv. pt. iii. 204 (Fl. Jap. Fam. Nat. i. 

 80) (1846). — Lindera sericea Blume, Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. i. 324 (1851). — 

 Lindera iimhellala var. sericea Makino in Tokyo Bot. Mag. xiv. 185 (1900). 



Japan. 



Benzoin urophyllum, nom. nov. — Lindera caudata Diels in Bot. Jahrb. 

 XXIX. 352 (1900), non Benzoin caudatum (Nees) Kuntze. 



China: Szechuan. 



(To be continued) 



