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This species may be at once recognized by its obtuse leaves and shortly racemose 

 or fasciculate axillary inflorescences. 



SAUROPUS Bl. 



Sauropus albicans Blume, Bijdr. 596 (1825). — Baillon, £tude Gen. 

 Euphorb. 635, t. 27, fig. 19, 20 (1858). — MuUer Arg. in De Candolle, 

 Prodr. XV. pt. 2, 240 (1866). — Hooker f., Fl Brit. Ind. V. 332 

 (1887). — Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 420 (1891). 



Western Szech'uan: Hungya Hsien, thickets, alt. 1000 m., 

 September 1908 (No. 2436; shrub 1-1.25 m. high; flowers white); 

 Mt. Omei, July 1904 (Veiteh Exped. No. 5772; shrub 3 m. high). 



GLOCHIDION Forst. 



Glochidion puberum Hutchinson, n. comb. 



Agyneia pubera Linnaeus, Mant. II. 296 (1771). 



Agyneia impubes Linnaeus, 1. c. 



Bradleia sinica Gaertner, Fruct. II. 127, t. 109, fig. 1 (1791). 



Glochidion sinicum Hooker et Amott, Bat. Voy. Beechey, 210 (1836). — Bentham, 



Fl. Hongk. 314 (1861). 

 Phyllanthus puberus Muller Arg. in Flora, XLVIII. 387 (1865) ; in De Candolle, 



Prodr. XV. pt. 2, 307 (1866), excl. var. a Fortunei. 

 Glochidion obscurum Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 425 (non Blume) 



(1894). 



Kiangsi : Kuhng, common on roadside, up to 650 m., Aug. 1, 1907 

 (No. 1599; shrub 0.7-1.5 m. high). Western Hupeh :Ichang, com- 

 mon up to 450 m., June and September 1907 (No. 2434; shrub 1 m. 

 high; flowers whitish, fruit bright scarlet). Western Szech'uan: 

 without precise locahty, 600 m., June 1903 (Veiteh Exped. No. 4446). 

 Chekiang: vicinity of Ningpo, 1908, D. Macgregor. 



Readily distinguished from G. obscurum Blume (Phyllanthus obscurus Willdenow) 

 from India and the Malay Archipelago, with which it has hitherto been associated, 

 by the shortly stalked depressed-globose many-lobed capsules. In Blume's species 

 the capsules are long-stalked and ovoid-elUpsoid in shape and scarcely or not at all 

 lobed. 



Glochidion Wilsonii Hutchinson, n. sp. 



Frutex usque ad 3 m. altus; rami angulares v. costati, sicco brunnei, 

 glabri; ramuli erecto-patentes, graciles, glabri. Folia oblique lanceo- 

 lata, apice acuta v. breviter acuminata, basi obtusa v. cuneato-obtusa, 

 3-8 cm. longa, 1.5-3 cm. lata, tenuiter chartacea, glabra, infra glau- 

 cescentia; costa media utrinque elevata, infra prominens, ad apicem 

 laminae sensim angustata, infra straminea; nervi laterales utrinsecus 



