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lobed, with alternate longer and shorter lobes), while the filaments are 

 very short and stout, not subulate-acuminate. 



ICACINACEAE 

 Apodytes E. Meyer 



Apodytes cambodiana Pierre, Fl. Forest. Cochinch. t. 267(1892); Gagne- 



pain in Lecomte, Fl. Gen. Indo-Chine, I. 834. (1911). 



Apodytes jav. mica Koorders & Yaleton, Bijdr. Boomsoort. Java, v. 159 (1900). 

 Hainan: northwest slope of Five Finger Mountain, W. Y. Chun, no. 



2096, in forests apparently at high altitudes. 



No representative of this genus has hitherto been recorded from China, 

 the specimen cited above agreeing in all esential details with material 

 from Indo-China and Java, as well as with the descriptions and Pierre's 

 plate. It occurs in Indo-China and in Java, and according to Koorders, 1 

 also in India. 



I strongly suspect that Nothapodytes montana Blume (Mappia montana 

 Miq.), will prove to be the same as this, in which case Blume \s specific 

 name will replace Pierre's. 



RHAMN v CEAE 



Smythea Seemann 



Smythea nitida, sp. nov. 



Frutex scandens, subglaber, ramis teretibus glabris olivaceis, ramulis 

 tenuibus circiter 1 mm. diametro, junioribus parcissime ciliatis; foliis 

 olivaceis nitidis chartaceis ovatis ad elliptico-ovatis, 3 ad 7 cm. longis et 

 1.5 ad 3 cm. latis, glaberrimis, basi aequilateralibus vel subaequilateralibus 

 late rotundatis, apice breviter obtuseque acuminatis vel obtusis, margine 

 distanter denticulatis, ncrvis latcralibus utrinque 4 vel 5, perspicuis, 

 arcuato-adscendentibus; petiolo 3 ad 5 mm. longo, plus minusve hirsuto; 

 floribus axillaribus fasciculatis 5-mcris circiter 4 mm. diametro, fasciculis 

 plerisque 4-fioris, pedicellis 2 mm. longis; calycis lobis parcissime hirsutis 

 triangularibus, acutis, 1.5 mm. longis, petalis parvis, obcordatis, retusis, 

 vix 1 mm. longis, margine inflexis, dorsum angustatis, brevissime stipilatis; 

 filamentis 1 mm. longis. Fructibus ignotis. 



Hainan: Five Finger Mountains, altitude about 1350 m., W. Y. Chun, 

 no. 1465, May 6, 1920. 



The first representative of the genus to be recorded from China, appar- 

 ently most closely allied to Smythea macrocarpa Hemsl., but with differ- 

 ently shaped, fewer-nerved leaves which are broadly rounded and nearly 



equilateral at the base. Although the fruits are unknown, and without 

 these it is difficult to distinguish between Smythea and Ventilago, I do not 

 hesitate in referring the present species to Smythea because of its axillary 

 fascicled flowers. From the description I strongly suspect that Ventilago 



1 Kxkursionsfl. Java n. 532. (1912). 



