Ud^CU UM (X l\K. 



Kwangtung, will not prove to be distinct. 



VERBENACEAE 



Premna Chevalieri Dop. Bull. Soc. Bot. France 70:445. 1923, et in 

 Lecomte FI. Gén. Indo-Chine 4: 813. /. 87, 6. 1935. 



Prcinna acnminatissiiua Merr. Univ. Calit. Publ. Bot. 10: 430. 1924, non 

 Merr. Lingnan Sci. Jour. 6: 884. 1930. 



Dr. Dop's species was based on Tonkin collections made by Chevalier 

 and by Bon, while mine, published a year later, was based on Pételot 

 1434 ; the two are manifestly identical. The true alliance of this species 

 is with the Chinese Premna piibentla Pamp., and some forms very closely 

 appro.ximate the latter. 



In 1930 I inadvertently published a second species, from Hainan, 

 under the sanie binomial I had used for the Indo-Chinese species si.x years 

 earlier, and in his synonymy Dr. Dop (FI. Gén. Indo-Chine) has con- 

 fused this with the earlier one. His citations to the Lingnan Science 



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anastomosantibus, reticulis Iaxis, haud perspicuis; petiolo 1-2 mm. 

 longo; inflorescentiis axillaribus terminalibusque, 1-2 cm. longis, dis- 

 tincte' pedunculatis vel e basi ramosis, leviter pubescentibus; bracteis 

 bracteolisque 2-2,5 mm. longis, subspathaceis vel obovatis, extus leviter 

 pubescentibus; floribus perfectis, circiter 7 mm. longis, subconfertis, 



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