Tabula 2847. 



STAirWTONIA OBOVATA, HemsL 



Lardizabalaceae. 



S. obovata, HemsL {sp. noi\) ; species ab S. chinensi, DC, cum 

 (jua a cL Bentliam et postea auctoribus plurimis confusa, diffeit 

 imprimis foliolis saepissime obovatis marginatis venis immersis 

 inconspicuis, floribus minoribiis et antberis breviter apiculatis. 



Frutex dioicus, scandens vel in rupibus repens, omnino glaber, 

 caulibus gracilibus. Folia peltatim 3-5-foIiolata, maxima cum petiolo 

 communi 15-18 cm. longa et 10-12 cm. diametro, sed saepius praecipue 

 in ramis floriferis saltern dimidio minora ; foliola coriacea, graciliter 

 petiolulata, obovato-cuneata, interdum oblonga vel fere elliptica, 

 magnitudine valde variabilia, cum petiolulo 2-10 cm, longa, apice 

 rotundata, margiiie incrassata, supra nitida, subtus pallidiora. Racemi 

 in foliorum axillis fasciculati, foliis breviores, pauciflori, pedunciilis 

 pedicellisque gracillimis ; bracteolae parvae, caducae. Flores masculi 

 circiter 1 cm. longi. Sepala 6, biseriata, 3 exteriora ovata, longe 

 acuteque acuminata, 3 interiora multo angustiora. Nectaria nulla. 

 Stamina sepalis dimidio breviora, filamentis fere ad apices usque 

 connatisj antheris apiculatis. PistiUodia 3, minuta. Flores feminei 

 masculis similes sed nectariis minimis (circiter 0*5 mm.) instruct!. — 

 Slauntonia chinensis, Benth. in Hook. Kew Journ. Bot. iii. p. 258 et 

 Fl. Honkg. p. 14, non DC. 



Chixa ; Hongkong ; various localities, Champion^ 43, in part ; 

 Wright, 7 ; Wiljord, 338 ; LamonL 



Fortune's n. 166 also belongs to this species, which is apparently 

 confined to the island of Hongkong. The type of S. chinensis is at 

 the British Museum, and Champion's specimens at Kew are a mixture 

 of that species and S. obovata, mostly the latter. On one sheet there 

 is a large leaf of S, chinensis^ and the rest is S, ohovata. On another 

 sheet a small, imperfect fruiting specimen of the latter is associated 

 with foliage and flowers of the former. Only two female flowers of 

 S. ohovata, HemsL, were found, and unfortunately it is not certain 

 from which specimen they were taken ; but there is no doubt about the 

 species, as it was the only one under observation at the time. They 

 were not found until after the plate had been printed ofi. — W. Boittxq 

 Hemsley. 



Fig, 1, a male flower ; 2, an outer sepal ; 3, an inner sepal ; 4, androecium ; 

 5, section of the same showing the piatillodes. All enlarged. 



