Sloanea sinensis (Hance) Hemsl. Hook. Ic. 27: sub f. 2628. 1900; Hu, Jour. Arnold 
Arb. 5: 230. 1924;* Rehd. op. cit. 15: 91. 1934. In 2 
Echinocarpus sinensis Hance, Jour. Bot. 22: 108. 1884. ja a 23:193 
Inpo-CHina, Annam, Mt. Bana, Clemens 3897, May-July 1927, a small tree in for- 
ests. Hunan, Chekiang, Fukien, Kwangtung, Kweichow and Kiangsi. 
Gagnepain, in Lecomte, F1. Gén. Indo-Chine L: 563. 1910, may have 
included this form in his conception of S/oanea Sigun (Blume) K.. Sch., but 
the cited specimen from Indo-China conforms with Hance’s species, the 
spines on the relatively small capsules being slender and densely arranged. 
In Blume’s Javan type the spines are stouter and are very loosely arranged, 
as well illustrated by Koorders and Valeton, Atlas, Baumart. Java 3: 4. 434. 
1914. The allied Chinese form that Gagnepain has illustrated in Lecomte, 
F1. Gén. Indo-Chine 1: 563. f. 59. 1910, and Not. Syst. 1: 165. f. 7. 1910, 
as Sloanea Hanceana Hemsl. (Echinocarpus sinensis Hemsl. Ann. Bot. 9: 
147. 1895, non Hance 1884) is S/oanea Hemsleyana (Ito) Rehd. & Wils. in 
Sargent, PI. Wils. 2: 361. 1915 (Echinocarpus Hemsleyanus Ito, Jour. Sci. 
Univ. Tokyo 12: 349.1899). Other synonyms of Sloanea sinensis (Hance) 
Hu are Castanopsis Cavaleriei Lév. and Sloanea chengfangensis Hu. I do 
not think that S/oanea hongkongensis Hemsl. in Hook. Ic. 27: £. 2628. 1900 
can be distinguished from S. sinensis (Hance) Hemsl. 
*While Hu in 1924 independently transferred Hance’s species to Sloanea, Hemsley 
had already made the transfer in 1900 thus: “S[/oaneal] sinensis, Hemsl. (Echinocarpus, 
Hance)” and the authority should be Hemsley. 
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