Puate 2624. 
SHORTIA SINENSIS, Hemzsl. 
DIAPENSIACE2. 
S. sinensis, Hems/. (sp. nov.) ; a speciebus hactenus es foliis 
Fame lanceolatis deorsum gradatim attenuatis differt 
Herba perennis, subacaulis, undique <i caudice incrassata. 
hiemalia squamiformia, superiora gradatim majora, foliis sstivalibus 
similia. Folia propria estivalia demum coriacea, ovali-oblonga, longe 
obtusa, basi cuneata, subtus pallidiora, precipue supra medium 
grosse crenatodentata, crenis calloso-apiculatis; petiolus anguste 
alatus, laminam equans. Pedunculi graciles, uniflori, preter bracteas 
calyci contiguas nudi, quam folia sepius dimidio breviores. lores 
nutantes, circiter 1 poll. diametro. Calyx alte 5- € ie titus vel sepala 
a 
filamentis filiformibus nudis ; staminodia minuta, angustissima, squami- 
ormia, infra stamina jamertk et cum iis alternantia. varvum 
glabrum, triloculare, multiovulatum, stylo stamina equante. 
CuInA: south-eastern mountains at 5,000 feet, Mengtze, Yunnan, 
A, tl 11,490. 
ations from the genus 
originally described, Siebold and Zuccarini’s Sehisoeodon (1885) aloud 
not be regarded as a section of Shortia.—W. Bottinc HEMSLE 
Fig. 1, pistil a 2 ae of calyx; 2, corolla laid open; 3, a cross section of an 
ovary. ‘All enlar 
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