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in "Museum Botanicum Lugdano-Batavam " in 1851, a distinct species, 

 and a native of Java, whereas Gamble's use of the name for this Chinese 

 species was not established until 1914 (see "Plantae Wilsonianse," vol. II, 

 p. 71, 1914). As, therefore, a new name must be given to this species it 

 is here proposed to name it Phoebe chinensis Chun. A description of the 

 species follows: — 



Phoebe chinensis Chun. 



(Phoabe maerophylla Gamble.) 

 (Machilus maerophylla Hemsley.) 



Tree up to 10 m. tall. Branchlets rounded, glabrous or glabrescent, 

 <lark gray. Leaves evergreen, sparsely scattered on the branches, thick, 

 leathery, narrowly lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, acuminate at the apex, 

 narrowed toward the base, green on both surfaces or slightly paler 

 beneath with somewhat inconspicuous primary veins and finely reticulated 

 ultimate veins, about 22 cm. long; petioles 2-4 cm. long, slender. 

 Flowers yellow-green in narrow, erect, terminal cymose panicles; perianth 

 greenish-yellow, valvate,. in 2 unequal series (the inner one larger) ; 

 perianth segments ovate-oblong, thick, with ciliate margins, somewhat 

 sparsely hirsute on the inner surface. Filaments furnished with minute 

 hairs at the base. Ovary entirely glabrous. Drupe globose, with the 

 thickened perianth segment appressed beneath, 



Hupeh and Szechuan. 



This handsome evergreen tree is one of the most useful and abun- 

 dant of Nanmus. The wood, which is olive-green and brown, is fragrant 

 and durable. Itis a favorite tree for ornamental planting in the provinces 

 of the West. 



MACHILUS 



Aromatic, evergreen trees with alternate, entire, pinnately veined 

 leaves. Flowers perfect or polygamous-, in terminal panicles. Perianth 

 6 cleft, the outer segments usually equal to, or slightly smaller than, the 

 inner ones, the segments usually persisting entire around or under the 

 berry. Stamens 9; anthers 4-celled; 6 of the anthers opposite the perianth 

 segments open outwards (extrorse) bearing a short stalked gland at each 

 side of the base of the filament. Pedicels not enlarging or thickening 

 under the fruit or berry. The panicles sometimes become lateral by 



