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species was reduced by Hemsley to the Malayan Clethra canescens Reinw., 

 the type of which was from Celebes. Comparison of the Chinese material 

 with a Celebes specimen, presumably representing Reinwardt's species, 

 shows that the two are unmistakably distinct. The Chinese form is also 

 specifically distinct from the Philippine Clethra lancifolia Turcz., erron- 

 eously placed by Hemsley as a synonym of Clethra canescens Reinw. 

 Clethra fabri Hance can readily be distinguished C. canescens Reinw. by 

 its much fewer-nerved leaves, and from C. lancifolia Turcz. by its distinctly 

 larger flowers. 



VERBENACEAE 



CALLICARPA Linnaeus 

 CALLICARPA OLIGANTHA sp. nov. 



Frutex 2 ad 3 m altus, subglaber, ramulis junioribus parcissime 

 et decidue stellato-pubescentibus ; foliis brevissime petiolatis, 

 anguste lanceolatis, usque ad 12 cm longis et 1.5 cm latis, charta- 

 ceis, utrinque subaequaliter angustatis, acuminatis, basi cuneatis, 

 margine in f superiore parte distincte serrulatis, supra glabris, 

 subtus glandulosis, glabris, vel junioribus parcissime stellato- 

 pubescentibus, nervis utrinque 7 ad 9, curvato-adscendentibus, 

 tenuibus; cymis axillaribus depauperatis, 2- vel 3-floris, brevis- 

 sime pedunculatis, pedicellis glabris, circiter 4 mm longis ; f ructi- 

 bus globosis, 3 ad 3.5 mm diametro, glabris, calycis persistentibus, 

 glabris, truncatis. 



A slender shrub, 2 to 3 m high, in age- glabrous or nearly so, 

 the young branchlets sparingly stellate-pubescent. Branches 

 slender, terete, smooth, glabrous, grayish. Leaves narrowly lan- 

 ceolate, chartaceous, 6 to 12 cm long, 0.8 to 1.5 cm wide, narrowed 

 at both ends, the upper surface glabrous, smooth, eglandular, 

 brownish-olivaceous, shining, the lower surface slightly paler, 

 distinctly pitted-glandular, glabrous, or when young sparingly 

 stellate-pubescent near the midrib, the base cuneate, the apex 

 rather slenderly but bluntly acuminate, the margins in the upper 

 two-thirds distinctly serrulate ; lateral nerves 7 to 9 on each side 

 of the midrib, slender, curved-ascending, anastomosing, the 

 reticulations slender, not prominent; petioles 2 mm long or less. 

 Cymes axillary, few, subsessile or shortly peduncled, depauper- 

 ate, 2- or 3-flowered, the peduncles 2 mm long or less, the pedi- 

 cels not exceeding 4 mm in length, glabrous. Fruits globose or 

 subglobose, dark-brown when dry, 3 to 3.5 mm in diameter, 

 glabrous, the persistent calyx truncate, glabrous. 



Kwangtung Province, Loh Fau Mountain (Lofaushan), Merrill 11060, 

 August 23, 1917, in thickets along small streams, altitude about 900 meters; 

 rare, but a single plant seen. 



The alliance of this species is manifestly with the form commonly 



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