ini, c, 3 Merrill: Flora of Loh Fau Mountain 141 
Benth., for vWiich Mimosa corniculata Lour, supplies the oldest valid 
specific name. The corniculate pulvinus subtending the petioles, from 
which Loureiro took his specific name, is very characteristic of the species. 
GLEDITSCHIA Scopoli 
GLEDITSCHIA FERA (Lour.) comb. nov. 
Mimosa fera Lour. FI. Cochinch. (1790) 652. 
Kwangtung Province, Honam Island, near Canton, Levine 1289, 1852, 
September and November, 1917, with the Cantonese name tai yip ying. 
These specimens, one of which I provisionally referred to Gleditschia 
australis Hemsl., and the other to G. macracantha Desf., are both in fruit, 
and both manifestly represent the same species. They agree closely with 
Loureiro’s description, and I have no doubt that they present his species; 
however he gives the Chinese name as tsao kie. The pods are about 20 
cm long and 3 to 3.5 cm wide, straight or slightly curved, agreeing in 
length with Loureiro’s description, but being about twice as long as are 
those of G. australis Hemsl. I suspect that it is the Kwangtung form that 
has been referred to Gleditschia macracantha Desf., but Desfontaine’s 
description is so very short and imperfect that it is impossible to determine 
from it alone what the true characters of his species are. Hemsley states 
that G. macracantha Desf. has nearly quadrate flat seeds; the specimens 
cited above have the seeds of Gleditschia australis Hemsl. The Cochinchina 
form placed here by Loureiro may be the one referred by Gagnepain to G. 
australis Hemsl. 
RUTACEAE 
SKIMMIA Thunberg 
SKIMMIA JAPONICA Thunb. Nov. Gen. (1781-1801) 58. 
Kwangtung Province, Loh Fau Mountain (Lofaushan), Merrill 11056, 
Levine 1361, August 11, 1917, in thickets, damp ravines, altitude about 
1,100 meters. 
This species extends from Japan to India southward to Formosa and 
northern Luzon, occurring at high altitudes in the south. The genus is 
new to Kwangtung Province. 
FAGARA Linnaeus 
FAGARA CHINENSIS sp. nov. 
Frutex scandens, inflorescentiis axillaribus leviter pubescenti- 
bus exceptis glaber, ramulis ramulisque inermis, rhachis canali- 
culato-angulatis, subtus spinis paucis, recurvis armatis; foliis 
circiter 15 cm longis, foliolis 7, oppositis vel suboppositis, lanceo- 
latis ad ovato-lanceolatis, coriaceis, tenuiter sed obtuse acumina- 
tis, basi acutis, integris, usque ad 7 cm longis, nervis primariis 
utrinque 7 ad 9, distinctis; paniculis axillaribus, anguste pyra- 
midatis, circiter 4 cm longis ; fructibus sessilibus, rugosis, 
subellipsoideis, circiter 5.5 mm longis, apice leviter oblique 
rostratis. 
A scandent shrub, attaining a length of at least 5 m, glabrous 
except the sparingly pubescent inflorescences. Branches and 
