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has never been detected; the probabilities are very great that Gaudichaud’s 
specimen came from Macao, where he also botanized, and not from the 
Philippines. Doctor Gagnepain informs me that he was unable to locate 
Gaudichaud’s specimen in the Paris herbarium. It is to be noted that in 
the original description of the species Engler states “patria ignota.” The 
type of Aglaonema acutispathum N. E. Br. was a specimen purchased in 
Hongkong by Dr. Knaggs, and was thought to have come from the vicinity 
of Canton; however, Brown" states that there is another specimen in the 
Kew Herbarium labelled as having been brought from Shanghai by Dr. 
Knaggs; he also states that it was cultivated in southern China, the basis 
of this being Hance 1H59. At any rate, the species must now definitely 
be credited to Kwangtung Province, at least as a cultivated plant, and 
excluded from the Philippine list. 
DIOSCOREACEAE 
DIOSCOREA Linnaeus 
DIOSCOREA PENTAPHYLLA Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) 1032. 
Kwangtung Province, Loh Fau Mountain (Lofaushan), at Wa Shau 
T’oi, Merrill 10886, August 20, 1917, in thickets, altitude about 160 meters; 
a sterile specimen; White Cloud Mountain, near Canton, Levine 1687, 
September, 1917. 
This species is widely distributed in tropical Asia and Malaya but has 
not previously been reported from Kwangtung Province. 
LILIACEAE 
P ELI OS A NTH ES Andrews 
PELIOSANTH ES STENOPHYLLA sp. nov. 
Foliis numerosissimis, anguste lanceolatis, usque ad 27' cm 
longis, 5 ad 10 mm latis, utrinque attenuatis, nervis 7 vel 9, 
nervulis transversalibus obsoletis ; inflorescentiis usque ad 15 cm 
longis, floribus cernuis, pallide purpureis, circiter 7 mm longis, 
pedicellis binis vel trinis, 10 ad 12 mm longis, articulatis ; bracteis 
scariosis, lanceolatis, acuminatis, inferioribus usque ad 2 cm 
longis, superioribus minoribus. 
Rootstock 5 mm in diameter or less, woody, covered with the 
scarious basal portions of old leaves. Leaves numerous, up 
to 30 or more on each plant, narrowly lanceolate to linear-lanceo- 
late, chartaceous, attenuate at both ends, the blades 13 to 27 cm 
long, 5 to 10 mm wide, acuminate, sometimes slightly falcate, 
the longitudinal veins 7 or 9, the transverse veinlets obsolete, 
the very young leaves with broad, pale, scarious, deciduous 
margins, these scarious margins more or less persistent on the 
lower parts of the petioles and imbricately surrounding the 
short stem, the petioles up to 7 cm in length. Scapes solitary, 
erect, rather many-flowered, up to 15 cm in length, the flowers 
" Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 36 (1903) 185. 
