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This species seems to be most closely related to M. Hemsleyanus Diels, judging 

 by the shape of the calyx. Otherwise it has a much more distinct paracoroUa, but 

 not so well developed as that of M. suaveolens Champion, which may be at once 

 distinguished by its shorter, obtuser calyx and by the pecuUar lobulation of the 

 dolabriform shorter lobes. I have seen only fragments of Leveille's type, and it 

 seems to be a Uttle different from Morse's plant before me. The leaves of the 

 type are narrower, the lobes of the corolla are a Uttle longer and not so distinctly 

 undulate-cristate, the corolla tube is more hairy within, and the branches of the 

 stigma are very slender. 



TRACHELOSPERMUM Lemaire. 



Trachelospermmn gracilipes Hooker f., var. Cavaleriei Schneider, 



n. var. 



Melodinus Cavaleriei L^veille in Fedde, Rep. Spec. Nov. II. 113 (descriptio 



incorrecta) (1912), fide specim. originalis. 

 Trachelospermum ruhrinerve Leveille, Fl. Kouy-Tcheou, 32 (1914). 



Frutex scandens ; ramuli hornotini brunnescentes, flavo-hirto-villosuli, 

 aimotini plus minusve glabrescentes. Folia crassa, obovato-oblonga, basi 

 cuneata, apice satis subito acutata, leviter anguste emarginata (an nor- 

 maliter apiculata?), margine Integra, 5-6.5 cm. longa, 1.8-2.8 cm. lata; 

 supra viridia, ut videtur paulo nitentia, costa impressa, glabra, subtus ut 

 videtur laete viridia, in costa nervisque elevatis et in facie plus minusve 

 ut ramuli villosula, nervis lateralibus utrinsecus circiter 10; petioli 

 supra sulcati, utrinque villosuli, 4-6 mm. longi; stipulae non visae; 

 glandulae inter- et intrapetiolares in annulum dispositae, nigro-pur- 

 pureae. Inflorescentiae laxe cymoso-paniculatae, terminales axillares- 

 que, satis longe pedunculatae, folia superantes; pedunculus communis 

 3-5 cm. longus, compressus, plus minusve pilosulus; pedunculi laterales 

 3-5, breviores, similes, bracteis ut videtur deciduis lanceolatis ad 4 mm. 

 longis ciliatis in dorso pilosulis suffulti; pedicelli 4-13 mm. longi, inter- 

 dum subglabri, bracteolis minutis ciliatis praediti. Floresalbi; sepala 

 oblonga, 2-2.5 mm. longa, subacuta v. obtusiuscula, ciliata (interdum 

 calyx in basi extus pilosus), apice plus minusve conniventia intus basi 

 squamulis 10 subrotundis denticulatis instructa; corolla hypocrateri- 

 formis; tubus circiter 9 mm. longus, cylindricus, sed apice dilatatus, 

 intus post stamina pilosus, ad faucem glaber; lobi oblique obovati, 

 tubo aequilongi, apice ad 6 mm. lati, subretusi, glabri; stamina gynae- 

 ceumque pro genere normalia; ovarium glabrum bipartitum disco 

 quinquelobo cinctum. Fructus ignotus. 



Western Hupeh: Hsing-shan Hsien, on rocks, alt. 900-1200 m., 

 July 1907 (No. 2341, type; flowers white); Patung Hsien, alt. 900- 



