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branchlets terete, unarmed, the former grayish, rugose, the latter 
smooth, nearly black. Leaves alternate, about 15 cm long, the 
rachis canaliculate, somewhat angled, armed on the lower side 
with few, scattered, rather stout, recurved, 1 to 1.5 mm long 
spines. Leaflets 7, coriaceous, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 
entire, opposite or subopposite, 3.5 to 7 cm long, 1.2 to 2.6 cm 
wide, shining, olivaceous-brownish when dry, the glands not 
prominent, narrowed below to the acute and sometimes slightly 
inequilateral base, and above to the slenderly but obtusely acumi- 
nate apex; lateral nerves 7 to 9 on each side of the midrib, dis- 
tinct on the lower surface, anastomosing, the reticulations lax; 
petiolules 2.5 to 4 mm long. Panicles axillary, narrowly pyra- 
midal, about 4 cm long, sparingly pubescent, the primary 
branches about 5 mm long. Cocci subelliptic, brown and rugose 
when dry, about 5.5 mm long, keeled but scarcely compressed, 
obliquely beaked at the apex, 1-seeded, sessile, but one or two 
developing from each ovary. 
Kwangtung Province, Loh Fau Mountain (Lofaushan), Merrill 10660, 
August 13, 1917, in thickets near Paak Wan Moon, altitude about 900 
meters. 
This species is apparently represented by Cavalerie 950 from Kouy- 
tcheou, which has been identified with Zanthoxylum oxyphyllum Edgw., 
but to which species I do not consider that it can possibly be referred. It 
is well characterized by its few leaflets, which are entire and slenderly 
acuminate; its unarmed branches and branchlets; and its short, axillary, 
very narrow panicles. 
POLYGALACEAE 
EPIRIXANTHES Blume 
EP1RIXANTHES APHYLLA (Griff.) comb. nov. 
Salomonia aphylla Griff, in Proc. Linn. Soc. 1 (1844) 221, Trans. 
Linn. Soc. 14 (1845) 112. 
Kwangtung Province, Loh Fau Mountain (Lofaushan), at So Liu Koon, 
Merrill 10898, August 13, 1917, in damp forests along trails, altitude about 
180 meters. 
I have transferred this species to Epirixanthes Blume, as I consider 
this group to be generically distinct from Salomonia. 
EUPHORBIACEAE. 
BRIDELIA Loureiro 
BRIDELIA MONOICA (Lour.) comb. nov. 
Clutia monoica Lour. FI. Cochinch. (1790) 638. 
Cleistanthus monoicus Muell.-Arg. in DC. Prodr. 15 2 (1866) 508; Jabl. 
in Engl. Pflanzenreich 65 (1915) 53. 
Bridelia loureiri Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beechy’s Voy. (1841) 211. 
