Tabula 2S4G. 



STAUNTONIA CHINENSIS, DC, 



Lardizabalaceae. 



S. chinensis, DC. Prodr. 1824, vol. i. p. 96, non BentJi. FL Honcjh. 

 p. 14 ; ab S, dbovata, Hemsl., foliis longe petiolatis, foliolis oblongo- 

 lanceolatis acuminatis conspicue venosis, floribus majoribus, et antheris 

 longe cornutis facile distiiiguitur ; ab S, hexaphylla foliolis oblongis et 

 antheris longe cornutis recedit. 



Frutex dioicus, scandens, imdique glaber, caulibus teretibus 

 cinereis. Folia palmatim 5-7-foliolata, maxima visa circiter 20 cm, 

 longa lataque; petioli 8 10 cm. longi, striati, basi apiceque incras- 

 sati, suberosi ; foliola petiolnlata, coriacea, inaequalia, oblonga vcl 

 oblongo-lanceolata, absque petiolulo 4-12 cm. longa, primnm 

 acuminatissima, acumine deinde marcido, basi rotundata, margine 

 incrassata, supra nitida, costa impressa, siibtus conspicue venoso- 

 reticulata ; petioluli 1*5-3 cm. long:. Flares corymboso-racemosi, 

 utriusque sexus similes, circiter 2 cm, longi, pedicellos subaequantes ; 

 corymbi saepius triflori, pednnculati, q^uam folia breviores, pedunculis 

 gracilibiis basi perulis amplis suffultis. Sepala omnia similia, sed 

 3 interiora paullo minora, lanceolata, acuminata. Nectaria in floribus 

 masculis nulla, in femineis 6, ovata, 2-3 m. longa. Siaynina alterna paullo 

 breviora, omnia sepalis multo breviora ; filamenta per totam longi- 

 tudinem connata ; antherae birimosae, apice cornutae, cornibus erectis 

 rectis acutis, antheris aequilongis. Pistillodia 3, minuta. Pistilli 

 car fella claviformia, multiovulata. Fructus ignotus. — S, ch inensis, 

 Benth. FL Hongk. p. 14, pro minima parte. 



Chixa : Hongkong ; Cha7npion, intermixed with S. ohovata, Hemsl. 

 (t. 2847) ; Tai Mo mountains, opposite Hongkong, Fordy 99, 1885. 



For some remarks on this species in particular and on Stauntonia, 

 DC, Ilolboelliay Wall., and Parvatia, Decne,, generally, see letterpress 

 to t. 2843. — W, BoTTiNG Hemsley. 



Fig. 1, a branch bearing a leaf and male flowers ; 2, a male flower ; J 

 cium ; 4, section of the same showing the pistillodes ; 5, female flowers ; C, 

 and young carpels. .Ft;;*. 1 and 5 natural size ; the rest enlarged. 



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