LOGANIACEAE. 



Determined by Alfred Rehder and E. H. Wilson. 



GARDNERIA Wall. 

 Gardneria multiflora Makino in Tokyo Bot. Mag. XV. 103 (1901). 



Gardneria nutans Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 121 (non Siebold & 

 Zuccarini) (1890). — Dials in Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. 534 (1900). 



Gardneria multiflora Makino in Tokyo Bot. Mag. VI. 53 (nomen nudum) 

 (1892). 



Pseudogardneria multiflora Pampanini in Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. n. ser. XVII. 

 691 (1910). 



Western Hupeh: Hsing-shan Hsien, thickets, alt. 300-1000 m., 

 July 1907 (No. 1941; scandent shrub 2-3 m., flowers white); without 

 locality, A. Henry (No. 6016). Western Szech'uan: near Wa- 

 shan, thickets, alt. 1300 m., September 1908 (No. 2958; climber, 3 m.); 

 without locality, July 1904 (Veitch Exped. No. 4810). Yunnan: 

 Mengtze, mountains south-west, alt. 1600 m., A. Henry (No. 958P; 

 large climber, fruit red). 



This is a rather common low-Ievel climber in western Hupeh and Szech'uan. 

 Our specimens differ from Makino's description only in the perfectly glabrous style. 

 The leaves vary considerably in size, and in some specimens are as large as those 

 of G. ovata Wallich. 



Besides this species there occurs in China one other undescribed species, the de- 

 scription of which is given below with a short note on the genus Pseudogardneria. 



Gardneria lanceolata Rehder & Wilson, n. sp. 



Frutex scandens, glaberrimus, ramis ramulisque teretibus. Folia subcoriacea, 

 lanceolata v. oblongo-lanceolata, acuminata, basi cuneata, integra, 6-9 cm. longa 

 et 1-2.5 cm. lata, supra atroviridia, nitentia, subtus pallidiora, nervis utrinsecus 

 5-7 inconspicuis; petioli subteretes, 5-10 mm. longi. Flores axillares, in parte 

 inferiore ramulorum plerumque ex axillis bractearum subulatarum vix 1 cm. 

 longorum orientes, plerumque solitarii, albi, pentameri; pedicelli 1.5-2 cm. longi, 

 circa medium bi- v. uni-bracteolati, bracteolis minutis subulatis acuminatis; calyx 

 persistens, cupularis, lobis rotundatis breviter subito acuminulatis minute cilio- 

 latis; corolla caduca, rotata, tubo 1 mm. longo, lobis 5, lanceolatis acutis reflexis, 

 8 mm. longis et 2-3 mm. latis, antheris fere sessilibus glabris 7 mm. longis, bilocu- 

 laribus, in tubum connatis; ovarium globosum, glabrum; stylus cylindricus, 7 mm. 

 longus, stigmate indistincte bilobo fusco. Fructus non visus. 



Western Szech'uan: without precise locality, July 1901 (Veitch Exped. 

 No. 4809). 



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