xni. c. 3 Merrill: Flora of Loh Fau Mountain 141 



Benth., for which Mimosa corniculata Lour, supplies the oldest valid 

 specific name. The corniculate pulvinus subtending the petioles, from 

 which Loureiro took his specific name, is very characteristic of the species. 



GLEDITSCHIA Scopoli 

 GLEDITSCHIA FERA (Lour.) comb. nov. 



Mimosa fera Lour. Fl. Cochinch. (1790) 652. ^ 



Kwangtung Province, Honam Island, near Canton, Levine 1289, 18'^2, 

 September and November, 1917, with the Cantonese name tai yip ying. 



These specimens, one of which I provisionally referred to Gleditschia 

 australis Hemsl., and the other to G. macracantha Desf., are both in fruit, 

 and both manifestly represent the same species. They agree closely with 

 Loureiro's description, and I have no doubt that they present his species; 

 however he gives the Chinese name as tsdo kie. The pods are about 20 

 cm long and 3 to 3.5 cm wide, straight or slightly curved, agreeing in 

 length with Loureiro's description, but being about twice as long as are 

 those of G. australis Hemsl. I suspect that it is the Kwangtung form that 

 has been referred to Gleditschia macracantha Desf., but Desfontaine's 

 description is so very short and imperfect that it is impossible to determine 

 from it alone what the true characters of his species are. Hemsley states 

 that G. macracantha Desf. has nearly quadrate flat seeds; the specimens 

 cited above have the seeds of Gleditschia australis Hemsl. The Cochinchina 

 form placed here by Loureiro may be the one referred by Gagnepain to G. 

 australis Hemsl. 



RUTACEAE 



SKIM MIA Thunberg 



SKIMMIA JAPONICA Thunb. Nov. Gen. (1781-1801) 58. 



Kwangtung Province, Loh Fau Mountain (Lofaushan), Merrill 11056, 

 Levine 1361, August 11, 1917, in thickets, damp ravines, altitude about 

 1,100 meters. 



This species extends from Japan to India southward to Formosa and 

 northern Luzon, occurring at high altitudes in the south. The genus is 

 new to Kwangtung Province. 



FAGARA Linnaeus 

 FAGARA CHINENSIS sp. nov. 



Frutex scandens, inflorescentiis axillaribus leviter pubescent!- ^ 



bus exceptis glaber, ramulis ramulisque inermis, rhachis canali- 

 culato-angulatis, subtus spinis paucis, recurvis armatis; foliis 

 circiter 15 cm longis, foliolis 7, oppositis vel suboppositis, lanceo- 

 latis ad ovato-lanceolatis, coriaceis, tenuiter sed obtuse acumina- 

 tis, basi acutis, integris, usque ad 7 cm longis, nervis primariis 

 utrinque 7 ad 9, distinctis; paniculis axillaribus, anguste pyra- 

 midatis, circiter 4 cm longis; fructibus sessilibus, rugosis, 

 subellipsoideis, circiter 5.5 mm longis, apice leviter oblique 

 rostratis. 



A scandent shrub, attaining a length of at least 5 m, glabrous 

 except the sparingly pubescent inflorescences. Branches and 



