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about 5 cm. in longitudinal measurement, witli an even surface 

 and a pointed summit. A. montana lias a somewliat larger, more 

 ovoid fruit, with a wrinkled surface, and A. cordata, as repre- 

 sented in the Kew Herbarium by a specimen collected by 

 K. Watanabe and by the figure in Shirasawa's Icones, i. t. 56^ 

 has a depressed, spheroidal fruit about 3 cm. in diameter and 

 almost globose seeds. Shirasawa's figure, it may be added, 

 shows both entire and lobed leaves in the inflorescence. 



Now, there is no disputing the fact of these differences between 

 the fruits of A. montana^ "Wils., and A. cordata, as Wilson would 

 restrict it. He seems very confident of the validity of his new 

 species, and there may be more in it than I have succeeded iu 

 realising; but I think it possible that selection and cultivation 

 may account for something. Balansa's apparently luxuriant 

 specimen from Tonquin, referred to above, is remarkable in 

 having a small, terminal inflorescence much overtopped by the 

 larger, deeply three- to five-lobed leaves. The flowers are small 

 but exhibit no tangible peculiarities and no real deviations in 

 structure from the others examined. 



It may be useful to reproduce here Mr. Wilson's revised 

 synonymy in harmony with his new classification. 



Aleurites montana, Wilson, comb. nov. 



Dryandra oleifera, Lamk., Encycl. Meth. Bot. ii. 329 (quoad 

 fruct.) (1786). Yernicia montana^ Lour., Fh Cochinch. 587 

 (1790). Dryandra Verniciay Correa in Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. 

 Paris, viii. 69, t. 32, fig. 1 (1806). Elaeococcus Vernicia, A. 

 Juss. ex Spreng. Syst. Yeg. iii. 884 (1826); Steud., K'omencL 

 Bot. ed. 2, i. 545 (1840). Aleurites Vernicia^ Hassk. in Flora, 

 XXV. ii. Beibl. 40 (1842). A. cordata, Muell. Arg. in DC. 

 Prodr. xv. ii. 724 (pro parte) (1866); Bretschneider, Early Ees. 

 Fl. China, 172 (1881); HemsL in Journ. Linn. So€. xxvi, 433 

 (pro parte) (1894), et in Kew Bull. 1906, 120 (excL specim. 

 Japon.); Dunn, Eep. Bot. For. Dept. Hongk., 1905. 



South-Eastern CiiiisrA; Province of Fokien southward to 



Tongking. 



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116, figs. 170, 171 (1874) ), belongs here, but the seed only is 

 figured, and this miglit well represent that of A. Fordii, 

 Hemslej. 



A. Fordii, Hemsl., in Hook. Ic. PI. xxix., tt. 2801, 

 (1906), et in Kew Bull. 1906, 120 ; Bull. Imp. Inst. v. 134 (1907) ; 

 Fairchild in U.S. Dept. Agric. Circ. No. 108, cumicon. (1913). 



Elaeococca verrucosa, A. Juss. Euphorb. Gen. Tent. 38, t. 

 11, fig. 35 (quoad fruct. et semin.) (1824). Dryandra oleifera, 

 Wall. Cat. No. 7958 (nomen nudum) (1828), non Lamk. 

 Aleurites cordata, Hook f. Fl. Brit. lud. v. 384 '(1887), non 

 R. Br. ; Hemsl, in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxvi. 433 (excl. synon. et 

 specim. e Hainan, e Hongkong partim 



May 31, 1902; Hosie 



Henry in Chemist 



(1910) 



ampanini in Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. n. ser., xvii. 410 



A 2 



