XV, 3 Merrill: Notes on the Kivangtung Flora 229 



Kwangtung Province, Shiuchow region, Levine 3565, May 3, 

 1919, scattered along roads northeast of Nam Wa monastery. 



I am unable to refer this specimen to any previously described 

 species. It is apparently allied to Arisaema japonicum Blume. 



LILIACEAE 



SCILLA Linnaeus 



SCILLA SINENSIS (Lour.) comb. nov. 



Ornithogallum si7iense Lour. FL Cochinch. (1790) 206. 

 Barnardia scilloides Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1029. 

 Scilla chinensis Benth. Fl. Hongk. (1861) 373. 



Loureiro's species is manifestly identical with the one cur- 

 rently known as Scilla chinensis Benth., the latter having been 

 published independently of Convallaria chinensis Osbeck ^ which 

 is unquestionably a synonym although very imperfectly described. 

 It is not uncommon in open grassy places in the vicinity of Can- 

 ton whence Loureiro secured his material, and is represented by 

 the following Kwangtung material: Merrill 10048, Levine 3270, 

 3^21, the latter with the recorded local name sh'ik sun tau. 



DISPORUM Salisbury 

 DISPORUM CANTON I ENSE (Lour.) comb. nov. 



Fritillaria cantoniensis Lour. Fl. Cochinch. (1790) 206. 

 Disporum pullum Salisb. in Trans. Hort. Soc. 1 (1812) 331. 

 Uvularia chinensis Ker in Curtis's Bot. Mag. t. 916. 



Loureiro's material was from plants cultivated in Canton, for 

 which he cites the local name lin ni hoa. Wright * admits Fri- 

 tillaria cantoniensis Lour, with the following comment: "A 

 doubtful plant supposed by Gawler to be the same as Vvularia 

 chinensis, which is now reduced to Disporum pullum Salisb." 

 Hooker f .,^ under Disporum pullum Salisb. states : "The type of 

 this species is the Chinese Uvularia chinensis of the Botanical 

 Magazine, a purple flowered plant hardly distinguishable from 

 shortly spurred specimens of calcaratum." Loureiro's descrip- 

 tion is ample and applies unmistakably to Disporum; his specific 

 name should be retained for the Chinese form currently referred 

 to Disporum pulhim Salisb. I am by no means certain that all 

 the Indo-Malayan material currently referred to Disporum pullum 

 Salisb. is conspecific with the Chinese form. 



^ Dagbok Ostind. Resa (1757) 220. 

 'Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 26 (1903) 136. 

 'Fl. Brit. Ind. 6 (1892) 260. 



