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with these rules are given here. Neither did I attempt to make here the 

 necessary combinations of all Chinese species, but only of those species 

 which are included in my book, nor are the new combinations of herbaceous 

 plants given, since the Journal of the Arnold Arboretum is devoted only 

 to woody plants. A few supplementary descriptions are published, based 

 on more complete material in the herbarium of this Arboretum, and a few 

 new species are proposed and described which I discovered while studying 

 the herbarium material of this Arboretum in connection with my work. 



Vanieria tricuspidata, comb, no v. 



Madura tricuspidata Carriere in Rev. Hort. (1S(>4), 390. 



Cudranus trilobus Hance in Journ. Bot. vi. 49 (1S68). 



Cudrania tricuspidata Bureau in Lavall6e, Arb. Segrez. 243 (1876). 



E. D. Merrill identified Loureiro's obscure species Vanieria cochinchi- 

 nensis with Cvdrania javanensis in his Commentary on Loureiro's Flora 

 Cochinchinensis, and T. Nakai independently reached the same con- 

 clusion when he recently studied in the Arnold Arboretum. As Cudrania 

 is not a nomen eonservandum and Vanieria is an earlier name, it should 

 be adopted, hence the new combination. 



Polychroa scabra, comb, now 



Pellionia scabra Bentham, Fl. Hongk. 330 (1861). 

 Polychroa is another of Loureiro's genera which E. D. Merrill succeeded 



to identify with a more recent and generally accepted genus, in this case 



Pellionia Gaudichaud. Following him I propose this new combination. 



Magnolia Fordiana, comb. nov. 



Manglietia Fordiana Oliver in Hooker's Icon. xx. t. 1953 (1881). 

 Manglietia differs from Magnolia in having six or more ovules in each 

 carpel instead of two. I quite agree with Prantl (in Engler & Prantl, 

 Nat. Pflanzenfam. ill. abt. I. 16 [1888]) in considering the difference not 

 of generic importance and consequently in the reduction of Manglietia to 

 Magnolia. 



Spatholobus parviflorus, comb. nov. 



Butea parviflora Roxburgh, Hort. Bengal. 53 (1814); Fl. End. in. 248 (1832). 

 Spatholobus Roxburghii Bentham in PL Jungh. 238 (1851-55). 



Aspidopteris orbiculata, comb. nov. 



Hiraea orbiculata Roxburgh, Hort. Bengal. 90 (1814), nomen; Wallich, PI. 



As. Rar. I. 13 (1830). 

 Hiraea nutans Roxburgh, Fl. Ind. II. 447 (1832). 

 Hiraea rotundifolia Roxburgh, 1. c. 448. 

 Aspidopteris nutans Hooker f., Fl. Brit. Ind. I. 421 (1875).— Non A. Ju^s. 



Fagara mengtzeana, nom. nov. 



Zanthoxylum multifoUolatum Hemsley in Hooker's Icon. xxvi. t. 2595 (1899). 

 Tins species is referable to Fagara, and as there is already a Fagara 

 muUifoliolata Engler which is a native of Pondoland, Africa, a new name 

 is proposed here. 



