1380 A CHINESE CLETHRA. 
polished, brown-stramineous. Male spike cylindrical, under 4 lin. 
long; glumes = one e, acuminate, membranous, pale brown, 
with a “daik green keel. — Central Madagascar, Baron 20411* A 
near ally of C. inpalteilé (Tab. 2388, fig. 1). 
A CHINESE CLETHRA. 
By H. F. Hance, Pa.D., F.L.S. 
Tue genus Clethra, comprising about twenty-five gga is 
divided into two groups of very unequal extent. The first, with 
persistent foliage, and containing the great majority, is distributed 
exico towards the southern extremity of the North American 
continent, through the different states of South jolene and the 
West India Islands, as far to the south as Brazil on the tropic, and 
Northern Chili; whilst there is besides a solitary outlying species 
in Madeira. Of the other, deciduous-leaved group, but four species 
an hitherto been known, two from the United States, another 
from Japan, and a fourth from the higher regions of some of the 
islands of the Malay Archipelago. To these I am now enabled to 
add a fifth, from the mountains of Kwang-tung, of which I subjoin 
a brief diagnosis. 
‘34 Clethra Fabri, sp. n. — Ramulis hirtis, foliis oblongo-lan- 
ceolatis basi obtusiusculis apice acutis basin versus integris 
ceterum distanter obtuse glanduloso- ee supra pilorum 
calycem parum agree ome adobe cernuis, Gnas t mentosi 
og aiding : 
rimis, ovario dense hirsuto, stylo cenracre calyce duplo longiore. 
I o-fau-shan, prov. Cantonensis versus exitum m. Sept. 
1882, reperit rev. Ern. Faber, cui lubens dicavi. (Herb. propr. n. 
22125). 
The specimen I possess is very scanty, mh the leaves I have 
described are merely the upper ones at the base of the racemes. I 
think it is nearest C. alnifolia Linn.,—nearer shih 3 is C. barbinervis 
8. Phat in the shape of the calyx-segments and in the 
sparsely pilose petals it resembles C. acuminata Mx. The Malayan 
species I have no opportunity of comparing. 
* (Mr. Ridley identifies with this species specimens in the Herbarium of 
the British sec , from Hildebrandt (3754), eer at Andrangoloaka, East 
merina. In t eg than those above 
described, one of nen being 2} inches long. en Je OURN 
