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umbelliilis longe pedimculatis ; fructibus ovoideis, 5 mm longis, 

 glabris, 5-carinatis, perspicue 5-sulcatis, pedicellis 1 ad 1.5 cm 

 longis. 



An erect shrub about 3 m high. Leaves large, bipinnate, 

 the rachis, partial rachises, and leaflets on both surfaces with 

 scattered, long, slender, nearly straight spines and with more 

 numerous, slender, spreading setae, the spines 3 to 10 mm long, 

 the setae 1.5 to 3 mm in length. Pinnae 5- to 9-foliolate, about 

 30 cm long; leaflets oblong-ovate, membranaceous, dark brown 

 or olivaceous when dry, the lower surface somewhat paler than 

 the upper, 9 to 12 cm long, 4 to 6 cm wide, subsessile, base 

 rounded, often slightly inequilateral, apex acuminate, margins 

 serrate, the teeth apiculate, the spines few, scattered, and mostly 

 confined to the midrib with a few on the primary nerves, fewer 

 on the lower surface than on the upper, the setae more numerous 

 and scattered all over the epidermis on both surfaces. Inflores- 

 cences ample, lax, the ultimate branchlets up to 10 cm in length. 

 Umbels subglobose, about 30 fruits in each, the pedicels 10 to 

 15 mm long, setose. Fruits ovoid, glabrous, about 5 mm long, 

 prominently 5-keeled and deeply 5-sulcate, the depressions broad, 

 rounded. 



Kwangtung Province, Chan Tung hill, Levine 3242, October 

 30, 1918, with the local name lak cha tsui. 



This species is readily distinguished among its congeners by 

 its spiny and setose rachises, partial rachises, leaflets, and in- 

 florescences. 



PRIMULACEAE 



LYSIMACHIA Tournefort 

 LYSIMACHIA CANDIDA Lindl. var. DEPAUPERATA var. nov. 



A typo differt planta multo minoribus 5 ad 8 cm altus, foliis 

 oblanceolatis ad obovatis, 5 ad 15 cm latis, obtusis vel subacutis, 

 pedicellis quam floribus baud longioribus. 



Kwangtung Province, Kochow region, Fung Mun, To Kang 

 P'eng 2735, February 22, 1919, in fields. 



LYSIMACHIA ALFREDI Hance in Journ. Bot, 15 (1877) 356; Pax & Knuth 

 in Engl. Pflanzenreich 22 (1905) 281. 



Kwangtung Province, Shiuchow region, To Kang P'eng 2858, 

 Levine 3524-, April, 1919, in woods. 



The identification has been made from the descriptions, the 

 former number cited agreeing better with it than the latter, 

 although differing in some details. The species has previously 

 been known only from Fokien Province. 



