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MENISPERMACEAE 



DIPLOCLISIA Miers 

 DIPLOCLISIA CHINENSIS sp. nov. 



Frutex scandens, glaber ; f oliis late ovatis ad subrenif ormibus, 

 5 ad 10 cm longis, 7 ad 12 cm latis, apice acutis, basi 5-nerviis, 

 late truncato-rotundatis ad leviter cordatis, petiolo 4 ad 7 cm 

 longo; inflorescentiis axillaribus, pedunculatis, umbellato-cymo- 

 sis, 1.5 ad 3 cm longis; floribus S 6-meris, sepalis ellipticis ad 

 obovatis, circiter 2.5 mm longis, lineolatis, petalis rhomboideis 

 1.5 mm longis, apice rotundatis, basi cuneatis, auriculis laterali- 

 bus acutis, inflexis. 



Scandent, glabrous, the branches and branchlets usually red- 

 dish brov/n, terete. Leaves chartaceous, olivaceous on both 

 surfaces or somew^hat glaucous beneath, broadly ovate to sub- 

 reniform, 5 to 10 cm long, 7 to 12 cm wide, entire or the margin 

 obscurely undulate, apex acute, base broadly truncate-rounded to 

 shallowly cordate, 5-nerved; petioles 4 to 7 cm long. Inflores- 

 cences axillary, solitary, umbellate-cymose, the peduncles 1 to 2 

 cm long, the flow^er-bearing portion less than 1 cm in diameter, 

 the pedicels 2 to 4 mm long, lineolate. Petals 6, rhomboid, 1.5 

 mm long, apex rounded, base acute, the auricles lateral, acute, 

 inflexed; filaments 2 mm long. 



Kvi^angtung Province, Shiuchov^^ region, Fan Kwai No Shan, 

 To Rang Feng 276 Jf (type), 2779 p. p., April 19, 1919. 



This species is closely allied to Diploclisia afftnis (Oliv.) Diels 

 but differs in its larger leaves v^^hich are broadly ovate to sub- 

 reniform, their bases truncate-rounded to shallov^ly cordate and 

 not at all peltate. My specimen of No. 2779 cited above consists 

 in part of this species and in part of Pericampylus glaucus 

 (Lam.) Merr. 



LAURACEAE 



LITSEA Lamarck 

 LITSEA CUBEBA (Lour.) Pers. Syn. 2 (1807) 4. 

 Launis cubeba Lour. Fl. Cochinch. (1790) 252. 

 Litsea piperita Juss. in Ann. Mus. Paris 6 (1805) 213. 

 Persea cubeba Spreng. Syst. 2 (1825) 269. 

 Daphnidium cubeba Nees Syst. Lour. (1836) 615. 

 Tetranthera cubeba Meisn. in DC. Prodr. 15* (1864) 199. 

 Litsea citrata Blume Bijdr. (1825) 595; Lecomte Fl. Gen. Indo-Chine 



5 (1914) 138; Gamble in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 75' (1912) 146. 

 Tetranthera citrata Nees Syst. Lour. (1836) 560. 

 Tetranthera polyantha Wall. Cat. (1830) No. 2538, nomen nudum, 



Nees in Wall. PI. As. Rar. 2 (1831) 67, Syst. Lour. (1836) 545. 

 Tetranthera floribunda Champ, in Hook. Kew Journ. Bot. 5 (1853) 



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