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a slightly different suffix, is, as Franchet himself points out, 

 a synonym of Kadsura. 



Parasyringa, W. W. Sm. Genus novum. 



Calyx cupuliformis dentibus 4 brevissimis praeditus. 

 Corolla tubulosa tubo calycem 2-3-plo sujDerante, lobis 

 4 calyci subaequilongis induplicato-valvatis. Stamina 2 

 supra medium tubum affixa filamentis antheras aequan- 

 tibus ; antherae oblongae paululo exsertae medio dorso 

 insertae. Ovarium 2-loculare ; stylus ovario subduplo 

 longior, stigmate breviter bifido ; ovula in quoque loculo 

 2 ab apice loculi pendula. Drupa oblonga subteres meso- 

 carpio tenui loculis inaequalibus altero casso altero abortu 

 monospermo, apice dehiscens. Semen solitarium pendulum 

 hand compressum exalatum ; albumen carnosum ; cot^de- 

 dones planae radicula brevi supera. Fruticulus glaber. 

 Folia opposita Integra coriacea persistentia. Flores in 

 paniculas terminales densas dispositi. Species unica 

 yunnanensis. 



Parasyringa sevijjervirens, W. W. Sm. Comb, no v. 



Syringa sempervirens, Franch., in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris, i 



(1886)„613 ; Hemsl., in Journ. Linn. Soc, xxvi (18S9), 



84; Diels, in Notes R. B. G. Edin., vii (1912), 116, 



149, 257 ; Schneider, Handb. Laubholz., ii (1911), 771. 



As the original description of the species is not in a 



readily accessible publication, I reproduce below Franchet's 



diagnosis : — 



Sectio: Sarcocarpion {Sarcocarpon Bl. est Kadsurae 

 synon.). — Fructus drupaceus, mesocarpio rupto loculicide 

 dehiscens ; loculis valde inaequalibus : altero casso, ovulis 

 abortientibus ; altero rite evoluto, abortu monospermo : 

 semen oblongum, vix compressum, exalatum, incurvum. 

 Frutex sempervirens, foliis coriaceis. Species hucusque 

 cognita unica, infra descripta. 



Syringa {Sarcocarpion) sempervirens, sp. no v. — Frutex 

 bimetralis, ex toto glaber, ramosus, ramis, hornotinis 

 angulatis, lenticellosis ; folia breviter petiolata, limbo 

 (1-1 1 poll, longo) rigide coriaceo, late ovato vel sub- 

 orbiculato, integerrimo, margine revoluto ; cymae pauci- 

 florae, secusramos patentes paniculam terminalera pyramid- 



