XIII, c. 3 Merrill: Flora of Loh Fau Mountain 151 



This form differs so radically from the typical Malayan Schima no- 

 ronhae Reinw., and from the Chinese and Formosan form that has been 

 referred to Reinwardt's species, that I am constrained to consider it a 

 distinct species. From typical Javan Schima noronhae Reinw. it is readily 

 distinguished by its smaller leaves, which are not slenderly acuminate; 

 crowded, shortly pedicelled flowers; smaller fruits; and numerous other 

 characters. From the Chinese form that has been referred to Reinwardt's 

 species, but which I consider should be retained as a distinct species under 

 the name Schima superha Garden. & Champ., it differs in its smaller 

 leaves which are not slenderly and sharply acuminate; distinctly smaller 

 fruits; and shorter-peduncled, more numerous, densely crowded flowers. 



OENOTHERACEAE 

 EPILOBIUM Linnaeus 



EPILOBIUM PHILIPPINENSE C. B. Rob. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 5 (1910) 

 Bot. 369. 



Kwangtung Province, Loh Fau Mountain (Lofaushan), Merrill 10658, 

 Levine lJt67, August 16, 1917, on rubbish of fallen walls at the ruined 

 monastery Put Wan T'sz, altitude about 1,100 meters. 



The genus is new to Kwangtung Province. The specimens are more 

 robust than the Philippine form, with somewhat shorter fruits and slightly 

 smaller seeds, but in other characters closely approximates Robinson's type. 

 It is very probable that as species are interpreted in this genus by 

 Haussknecht and by Leveille, these authors would consider the Chinese 

 form specifically distinct from the Philippine one; it is not improbable 

 that this Chinese form has already been described under some other 

 specific names, but as distinctions are drawn by Leveille it is practically 

 impossible to gain a clear conception of many of his species from the de- 

 scriptions alone, the same being true also of many of Haussknecht's species. 



MELASTOMATACEAE 



BLASTUS Loureiro 



BLASTUS PAUCIFLORUS (Benth.) comb. nov. 



Allomorphia pauciflora Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. 1 (1842) 

 485; Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 23 (1887) 301; Cogn. in 

 DC. Monog. Phan. 7 (1891) 465; Dunn & Tutcher in Kew Bull. 

 Add. Series 10 (1912) 107 (Fl. Hongk. Kwangtung). 

 Oxyspora ? pauciflora Benth. Fl. Hongk. (1861) 116. 

 Blastus hindsii Hance in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 13 (1873) 103. 

 Hongkong, Victoria Peak, comm. W. J. Tutcher: Kwangtung Province, 

 Loh Fau Mountain (Lofaushan), Merrill 10743, Levine 1^62, about ledges 

 in thickets, in damp ravines, altitude about 950 meters, August 16, 1917. 



An examination of the flowers of this species shows that it belongs in 

 the genus Blastus, and it is accordingly so placed. Blastus cochinchi- 

 nensis Lour, is distinguished, among other characters, by its short, axillary 

 inflorescences. Leveille has described several species of Blastus with ter- 

 minal inflorescences, some of which, judging from his wholly inadequate 

 diagnoses, must be very close to the present species. 



