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China : Western Hiipeh and Eastern Szeclmen ; in various localities, 

 A. Henry, 4887, 6480 ; E. H. Wilson, 1030, 3140 ; R, P. Farges, 792 ; 

 Boch von BostJiorn, 2025, 2328. 



Dr. L. Diels first discovered that the fruit associated with male 

 Holhoellia euneata, D. Oliv., did not belong to that plant, but to Par- 

 vatia chinensis^ Franch., and he provisionally referred the two plants 

 to Holhoellia under the subgeneric name of Sinojranchetia, Mr. 

 Wilson procured excellent specimens of both sexes of P. chinensis, 

 Franch., and wo. have now no hesitation in raising Diels's subgenus 

 Sinoiranchetia to generic rank, exckidiiig male Hoboellia cuneata, 

 D. r3]iv. The Litter, of which the female flowers and fruit are un- 

 known, differs from all the species of Sfavvtonia (including Holboellia 

 and Parvatia) in having apparently decidu»us leaA^es ^^^th very oblique 

 latef'al lenflets, long solitary flaccid racemes of flowers, narrow, laterally 

 involute sepals, almost quadrate fleshy nectaries, very short free 

 filaments and no pistillodes, and probably belongs to an undescribed 

 genus. — W. BoTTiNG Hemsley. 



Fig. 1, nectaries (petals) and stamens of a male flower; 2, .section of the same 

 showing the pistillodes ; 3, a female flower ; 4, nectary (petal) and staoieu from the 

 same ; 5, pistil ; 6, section of ovary ; 7, carpels at a later stage ; 8, ripe fruit ; 

 9, section of seed ; 10, enil)ryo. Firj^i. 1 /o 7, mnl 10, ejihmjed ; 8 tiutnral size. 



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