XV. 3 Merrill: Notes on the Kwangtung Flora 245 



to be revived, or the still earlier one, Croton apetalum Blume, 

 transferred to Alchoruea. It is to be noted that Pax and Hoff- 

 mann saw no Cochin China material representing Loureiro's 

 species. 



ANACARDIACEAE 



POD PART I A Commerson 

 POUPARTIA CHINENSIS sp. nov. 



Arbor circiter 8 m alta, inflorescentiis exceptis glabra; foliis 

 20 ad 30 cm longis, foliolis 11 ad 15, membranaceis ad char- 

 taceis, oblongo-lanceolatis, 6 ad 9 cm longis, acuminatis, leviter 

 inaequilateralibus, glabris vel junioribus subtus in axillis leviter 

 barbatis, nervis utrinque 9 ad 12 ; petiolulis circiter 2 mm longis; 

 inflorescentiis terminalis, amplis, circiter 30 cm longis, ramis 

 inferioribus usque ad 15 cm longis, cinereo-pubescentibus ; flo- 

 ribus S 5-meris, calyces circiter 1.5 mm diametro; petalis 

 oblongis, 2.5 mm longis, reflexis; staminibus 10, filamentis 2 ad 

 2.3 mm longis ; ovario glabro, 4- ad 5-locellato. 



A tree about 8 m high, the inflorescences more or less cine- 

 reous-pubescent. Ultimate branches about 5 mm in diameter, 

 smooth, glabrous, terete. Leaves 20 to 30 cm long, the rachis 

 sparingly pubescent; leaflets 11 to 15, membranaceous to char- 

 taceous, oblong-lanceolate, 6 to 9 cm long, 1.5 to 2.5 cm wide, 

 somev/hat inequilateral at the base, apex acuminate, glabrous, 

 or the younger ones sparingly bearded in the axils on the lower 

 surface; lateral nerves 9 to 12 on each side of the midrib, 

 slender; petiolules about 2 mm long. Inflorescence a terminal 

 leafy panicle about 30 cm in length, the lower branches up to 

 15 cm long, subtended by normal but usually reduced leaves, 

 the upper 15 to 20 cm of the panicle leafless; the branches, 

 branchlets, and pedicels cinereous-pubescent. Flowers numerous, 

 white, pistillate and staminate ones in the same inflorescences. 

 Calyx of the staminate flowers about 1.5 mm in diameter, the 

 lobes 5, ovate, acute or obtuse, about 0.5 mm long. Petals oblong, 

 2.5 mm long, their margins somewhat inflexed, reflexed in an- 

 thesis, nerv^eless. Stamens 10, their filaments filiform, 2 to 2.3 

 mm long. Pistillate flowers similar to the staminate ones. Ovary 

 glabrous, 4- or 5-celled; styles 4 or 5, about 1 mm long. 



Kwangtung Province, Honam Island, on the campus of Can- 

 ton Christian College, Levine 3521, May 13, 1919. 



This is the second species of the genus to be found in China, 

 differing radically from Poupartia fordii Hemsl. in its very 

 much larger, terminal, distinctly pubescent inflorescences, the 



