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and lower surface of the leaves densely and softly stellate- 

 pubescent with pale-gray indumentum, the hairs elongated, some- 

 what matted, rather woolly, the older branches terete, smooth, 

 glabrous. Leaves opposite, membranaceous, oblong-ovate, 4.5 

 to 8 cm long, 2 to 4 cm wide, base rounded, apex acute to rather 

 slenderly acuminate, margins usually denticulate, sometimes 

 nearly entire, the upper surface blackish when dry, shining, 

 ultimately glabrous, the lower pale-grayish ; lateral nerves about 

 5 on each side of the midrib, anastomosing, conspicuous ; petioles 

 about 5 mm long. Flowers yellow, axillary, solitary or in pairs, 

 their pedicels 5 to 7 mm long, the filiform bracteoles nearly as 

 long as the pedicels. Calyx about 13 mm long, externally densely 

 and softly gray-tomentose, inside densely appressed-hirsute, the 

 lobes 5, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 5 mm long. Corolla yellow, 

 externally cinereous-tomentose, about 23 mm long, the two lobes 

 of the upper lip oblong-obovate, about 9 mm long, the three 

 of the lower lip suborbicular, about 6 mm long. Anthers sub- 

 orbicular, 2.5 mm in diameter, their margins very prominently 

 bearded, cohering. Ovary densely tomentose. Capsule oblong- 

 ovoid, somewhat cinereous-tomentose, about 1 cm long, 2-celled, 

 first loculicidally dehiscing into two valves, ultimately splitting 

 again through the placentae into four valves. Seeds numerous, 

 thin, compressed, linear-oblong, often slightly falcate, about 4 

 mm long, 1 mm wide, the testa expanded into a thin wing sur- 

 rounding the very narrow seed proper. 



Kwangtung Province, Loh Fau Mountain (Lofaushan), Merrill 10851, 

 August 22, 1917, in thickets along small streams, altitude about 950 

 meters; very rare, a single plant observed. 



This species is allied to Brandisia hancei Hook, f., of which no descrip- 

 tion has ever been published. My conception of Hooker's species is gained 

 from an examination of Yunnan material, Hevry 9013, Delavay 1934, 

 U626. In these specimens the leaves are smaller than in B. swinglei Merr., 

 much thicker, often cordate at the base, while the dense indumentum is 

 ferruginous, and its stellate character is very evident; the calyx is broader, 

 and its lobes are very different in shape in the Yunnan material. The 

 genus is new to Kwangtung Province, the known forms now being Brand- 

 isia discolor Hook, f. & Th., B. hancei Hook, f., B. racemosa Hemsl.. B. 

 sonliei Bonati, B. laetevirens Rehder, and B. glabrescens Rehder. 



LINDERNIA Allioni 

 LINDERNIA PYXIDARIA All. Misc. Taur. 3 (1755) 178. 



Vandellia pyxidaria Maxim, in Bull. Acad. Petersb. 20 (1875) 449. 

 Kwangtung Province, Sheklung, Merrill 11130, August 28, 1917, on 

 muddy river banks. 



Not previously reported from Kwangtung Province: Central Europe to 

 Japan, southward to Malaya and Polynesia. 



