VERBENACEAE. — PREMNA 371 



Callicarpa gracilipes Rehder, n. sp. 



Frutex, ut videtur; ramuli teretes annotini tomento farinoso-stellato flavido 

 obtecti. Folia chartacea, ut videtur persistentia, elliptico-ovata v. ovato-oblonga, 

 manifeste acuminata, basi cuneata, triente inferiore excepto sinuato-dentata v. 

 remote denticulata, interdum fere integra, 4-7.5 cm. longa et 1.7-3.2 cm. lata, supra 

 initio sparse farinose stellato-pilosa, demum glabra v. fere glabra, nitidula, atro- 

 viridia, subtus cana venis flavescentibus, pilis stellatis multo-radiatis dense ob- 

 tecta et glandulis a tomento absconditis conspersa, nervis utrinsecus 6-7, supra 

 leviter impressis subtus elevatis et colore flavescente distinctis; petioli 6-8 mm. 

 longi, flavescenti-tomentosi. Cymae parvae, pauciflorae, 1-1.5 cm. diam., graciliter 

 pedicellatae pedicello pctiolum superante circiter 1 cm. longo, farinose flavescenti- 

 tomentosae; calyx in fructu sparse stellato-pilosus, glabrescens, obsolete 4-denti- 

 culatus; flores non visi. Fructus ut videtur purpureus, subglobosus, vix 3 mm. 

 diam. 



Western Hupeh: without precise locality, A. Henry (No. 7690, type in Herb. 

 Gray). 



This species does not seem to be closely related to any other Chinese species; it 

 is characterized by its comparatively small, generally elliptic-ovate leaves, dark 

 green above, whitish tomentose beneath, and by its small inflorescence and slender 

 petioles and peduncles, the latter slightly exceeding the former. 



PREMNA L. 



Premna puberula Pampanini in Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. n. ser. XVII. 



701 (1910). 



Premna microphylla Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 256 (pro parte, non 

 Turczaninow) (1890), quoad plantam e Hupeh et Szech'uan. — Diels in 

 Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. 548 (1900). 



Western Hupeh: north and south of Ichang, thickets, alt. 300- 

 1000 m., August 6, 1907 (No. 3217, in part; semiscandent bush 2-4 

 m., flowers yellow); same locality, May 1900 (Veitch Exped. No. 763); 

 same locality, A. Henry (No. 3582); without precise locality, A. Henry 

 (Nos. 4099, 6123^). Southeastern Szech'uan: Nanch'uan, R. 

 von Rosthorn (Nos. 2367, 2368). Western Szech'uan : Yachou Fu, 

 alt. 600 m., June 1908 (No. 3217, in part; bush 2-3 m., flowers 

 yellow). 



The leaves of this species are almost always entire; only a few leaves of Wilson's 

 No. 3217 from Ichang and of Rosthorn's No. 2367 show a sHght dentation. The 

 inflorescence on the specimens before me is mostly 7-11 cm. long, while Pampanini 

 gives their size as 5-7 cm. 



Premna microphylla Turczaninow in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. XXXVI. 



pt. 2, 217 (1863). — Maximowicz in Bull. Acad. Sci. St. Petersbourg, 

 XXXI. 79 (1886); in Mel. Biol. XII. 510 (1880). — Hemsley in Jour. 

 Linn. Soc. XXVI. 256 (pro parte) (1890), exclud. planta e Hupeh et 

 Szech'uan. 



