xni,c, s Merrill: Flora of Loh Fan Mountain 147 
et 5 mm diametro, extus dense et minutissime ferrugineo-stellato- 
tomentosis. 
Kwangtung Province, Sum Sun, Nam Hoi, at the base of a hill, Levine 
1178, September 7, 1917. 
The alliance of this species is manifestly with Pterospermum jackianum 
Wall., to which I first referred the specimen. It differs from Penang 
material representing Wallich’s species, and from the descriptions in a 
number of details, notably in its entirely different stipules. 
The only species reported from China proper are the entirely different 
Pterospermum proteus Burkill and P. heterophyllum Hance; Pterospermum 
formosanum Mats., judging from the single sterile specimen I have seen, 
must be very closely allied to or identical with the Philippine P. niveum 
Vid. 
DILLENIACEAE 
TETRACERA Linnaeus 
TETRACERA LEVI N El sp. nov. 
• Frutex scandens, subglaber; foliis oblongis, rigidis, laevis vel 
sublaevis, usque ad 13 cm longis, in siccitate pallidis, nitidis, 
basi acutis, apice acutis, obtusis, vel obscurissime acuminatis, 
nervis utrinque circiter 15, perspicuis; paniculis axillaribus 
terminalibusque, usque ad 12 cm longis; fructibus circiter 7 
mm longis, glabris, 1-spermis, sepalis utrinque glabris. 
A scandent shrub, subglabrous, the inflorescences somewhat 
appressed-strigose. Branches brownish, somewhat wrinkled, 
smooth or minutely scabrid. Leaves subcoriaceous, rigid, brit- 
tle, oblong, pale and shining when dry, smooth or nearly so, 
11 to 13 cm long, 4 to 5 cm wide, base acute, apex acute, some- 
what obtuse, or even slightly acuminate, the margins minutely 
denticulate in the upper one-half; lateral nerves about 15 on 
each side of the midrib, prominent. Panicles terminal and in 
the upper axils, up to 12 cm in length. Fruits 1-seeded, ovoid, 
glabrous, shining, somewhat apiculate, about 7 mm long, the 
aril orange-yellow. Sepals glabrous on both surfaces. 
Kwangtung Province, White Cloud Mountain, near Canton, Levine 1794, 
near small streams, October 22, 1917. 
This species is manifestly allied to Tetracera scandens (Linn.) Merr. 
( T . sarmentosa Vahl), which is common in Kwangtung Province, from 
which it differs in its smooth or nearly smooth, not scabrid leaves, and 
more numerous lateral nerves. The synonyms Leontoglossum scabrum 
Hance, Actaea aspera Lour., Trachytella actaea DC., and Calligonum 
asperum Lour., based on Kwangtung and Cochinchina specimens, appear 
to be correctly referred to Tetracera sarmentosa Vahl=2\ scandens (Linn.) 
Merr. The latter species is represented by Hongkong Herbarium 1415, 
from Hongkong, and Merrill 10724 and Levine 1418 from the base of Loh 
Fau Mountain, Kwangtung Province. 
