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centibus, paucifloris, circiter 4 cm longis; floribus plerumque 

 5-meris, longe pedicellatis, pedicellis 10 ad 17 mm longis, bracteis 

 binis crassis ellipticis ad spatulatis dense pubescentibus circiter 

 7 mm longis instructis, calycis tubo cinereo-pubescente, circiter 

 2 mm longo, haud vel obscurissime sulcato, lobis latissime ovatis 

 ad reniformi-ovatis, 1 ad 1.5 mm longis ; petalis ellipticis, circiter 

 6 mm longis, liberis, glandulosis, exterioribus extus minute 

 pubescentibus. 



Yik Tsok Mau, McClure 97SU, May 19, 1922, in wooded ravines. 



The specimen was originally identified as Eugenia gracilenta 

 Hance, but presents little in common with that species and belongs 

 in the section Eueugenia rather than in Syzygium. Specimens 

 identified as Eugenia gracilenta Hance and distributed by the 

 Hongkong Herbarium represent a Decaspermum. 



MELASTOMATACEAE 



SONERILA HAINANENSIS sp. nov. 



Suffruticosa, erecta, 10 ad 20 cm alta, glabra vel superne pilis 

 capitatis paucis instruct*, caulis basi decumbens, 1.5 mm diam- 

 etro, internodiis 5 ad 15 mm longis; foliis in paribus aequali- 

 bus vel subaequalibus dispositis, petiolatis, membranaceis, 

 ellipticis ad late elliptico-ovatis, 1.5 ad 2.5 cm longis, 1 ad 2.3 

 cm latis, apice acutis ad rotundatis, basi rotundatis, 3-nerviis 

 vel obscurissime 5-nerviis, reticulis obsoletis, margine distanter 

 serratis, dentibus pilis capitatis terminantibus ; petiolo 1 ad 2 

 cm longo ; floribus terminalibus vel subterminalibus, plerumque 

 solitariis, 3-meris, pedicellis calycibusque pilis capitatis paucis 

 instructis, calycis cylindraceis, 5 mm longis, dentibus triangu- 

 lares, acutis, 1.5 mm longis; petalis oblongo-ellipticis, breviter 

 acuminatis, 1 cm longis; antheris lanceolatis, breviter acuminatis, 

 1 cm longis. 



Ng Chi Leng, McClure 9391, May 1, 1922, in thickets near 

 the summit of the mountain, altitude about 1,600 meters. 



A species apparently belonging in the group with Sonerila 

 rhombifolia Thw., and S. glaberrima Arn. Among other charac- 

 ters it is rather strongly marked by its widely scattered capitate- 

 glandular hairs on the younger parts of the stems, margins of 

 the leaves, pedicels, and calyces, being otherwise wholly glabrous. 



ERICACEAE 



PIERIS RUBROVENIA sp. nov. 



Frutex circiter 3 m altus, ramis glabris, ramulis junioribus 

 obscure pubescentibus; foliis coriaceis, oblongis ad oblongo- 



