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Marlea platanifolia grows only in the northern part of Kiusiu, western 

 end of Hondo, and western part of Shikoku. It is a shrub not taller 

 than eight feet, branches are slender, leaves always cleft like Acer Mono. 

 When these two species Marlea platanifolia and Marlea macrophylla 

 grow in the same spot, the latter becomes small tree and has always 

 broader leaves and more stout branches. In herbarium, they are often 

 confounded. However, Siebold made the distinction of these two plants 

 after he recognised their difference in their native place. The Chinese 

 plant is distinct from the Japanese, for it has glabrous leaves, pinkish 

 flowers, and oblong pyrexia?. I shall call it as 

 Marlea sinica Nakai, sp. nov. 



Syn. Marlea platanifolia (non Siebold & Zuccarini) Forbes & Hemsley 

 in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXIII. p. 344 (1888). 



Alangium plaianifolium Harms in Nat. Pnanzenfam. III. Abt. 8. p. 

 261 (1897), pro parte; in Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. p. 505 (1900)-Rehder in 

 Sargent, PL Wils. II. p. 554 (1916). 



Alangium platanifolium var. genuinum Wangerin in Engler, Pflan- 

 zenr. IV. 220 b. p. 22 (1910), pro parte. 



Hab. in China: Hupeh, Kiangsi, Szeclraan. 





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Marlea macrophylla Siebold & Zuccarini 

 var. trilobata Nakai. 



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 var. velutina Nakai. 



Marlea platanifolia Siebold & Zuccarini 

 var. typica Makino. 



