23,3 Merrill: Diagnoses of Hainan Plants, II 241 



nibus numerosis, filamentis 1.5 ad 2 mm longis, antheris 1 mm 

 longis ; stylis circiter 25, tenuibus, cylindraceis, 6 ad 8 mm longis. 



Hainan, Yan Fa, McClure 9542 (type) , 9524a ( t 9542a) , in 

 thickets, May, 1922. 



The specimens were originally identified as Kadsura lanceo- 

 lata King, but an analysis of the flowers showed at once that 

 the material represented a form remote from King's species. 

 It is distinguished not alone by its vegetative characters and 

 its ellipsoid buds, but also by its more-numerous, longer, dif- 

 ferently shaped petals, and from all species in the genus by its 

 slender elongated styles. 



KADSURA OBLONGIFOLIA sp. nov. 



Frutex scandens, glaber, ramis ramulisque teretibus, rubro- 

 brunneis, ramulis elongatis, vix 1.5 mm diametro; foliis oblongis 

 ad anguste oblongis, 4 ad 9 cm longis, 1 ad 2.5 cm latis, mem- 

 branaceis vel chartaceis, integris, vel margine dentibus glandu- 

 losis paucis obscuris instructis, basi acutis, apice obtusis vel 

 obscurissime obtuse acuminatis, nervis utrinque 6 ad 8, tenuibus, 

 obscuris; petiolo 6 ad 10 mm longo; floribus ignotis, axillaribus, 

 solitariis, longe pedunculatis, pedunculo sub fructu usque ad 3 

 cm longo ; f ructibus ovoideis vel ellipsoideis, usque ad 2 cm longis, 

 circiter 1.3 cm diametro, carpellis numerosis, globosis ad sub- 

 ellipsoideis, circiter 4 mm longis. 



Nodoa and Pat Ka Leng, McClure 8011 (type), 7866, 7973, 

 November, 1922, in thickets, altitude about 250 meters. 



This may be the Hainan form recorded by Gagnepain as 

 Kadsura lanceolata King; but, if so, I do not see how it can be 

 referred to King's species, from which it differs notably in its 

 differently shaped, relatively much narrower, thinner, usually 

 obtuse leaves ; the peduncles being much longer than the petioles ; 

 and the differently shaped, smaller fruits. It is apparently 

 nearer K. japonica Juss. than K. lanceolata King. It seems prob- 

 able, from a comparison of descriptions, that the Indo-China 

 Kadsura lanceolata as interpreted by Gagnepain is specifically 

 distinct from the original Malay Peninsula form. 



ANONACEAE 



FISSISTIGMA (MELODORUM) MACLUREI sp. nov. 



Scandens ( ?) , ramis glabris, ramulis tenuibus, pubescentibus ; 

 foliis chartaceis, olivaceis, oblongis ad oblongo-lanceolatis, 7 ad 

 10 cm longis, 2.3 ad 3 cm latis, tenuiter subcaudato-acuminatis, 

 basi rotundatis, in siccitate olivaceis, supra glabris, subtus pallid- 



