xni, c, 3 
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This form differs so radically from the typical Malayan Schima no- 
ronhae Reinw., and from the Chinese and Formosan form that has been 
referred to Reinwardt’s species, that I am constrained to consider it a 
distinct species. From typical Javan Schima noronhae Reinw. it is readily 
distinguished by its smaller leaves, which are not slenderly acuminate; 
crowded, shortly pedicelled flowers; smaller fruits; and numerous other 
characters. From the Chinese form that has been referred to Reinwardt’s 
species, but which I consider should be retained as a distinct species under 
the name Schima superba Garden. & Champ., it differs in its smaller 
leaves which are not slenderly and sharply acuminate; distinctly smaller 
fruits; and shorter-peduncled, more numerous, densely crowded flowers. 
OENOTHERACEAE 
EPILOBIUM Linnaeus 
EPILOBIUM PHILIPPINENSE C. B. Rob. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 5 (1910) 
Bot. 369. 
Kwangtung Province, Loh Fau Mountain (Lofaushan), Merrill 10658, 
Levine 14-67, August 16, 1917, on rubbish of fallen walls at the ruined 
monastery Put Wan T’sz, altitude about 1,100 meters. 
The genus is new to Kwangtung Province. The specimens are more 
robust than the Philippine form, with somewhat shorter fruits and slightly 
smaller seeds, but in other characters closely approximates Robinson’s type. 
It is very probable that as species are interpreted in this genus by 
Haussknecht and by Leveille, these authors would consider the Chinese 
form specifically distinct from the Philippine one; it is not improbable 
that this Chinese form has already been described under some other 
specific names, but as distinctions are drawn by Leveille it is practically 
impossible to gain a clear conception of many of his species from the de- 
scriptions alone, the same being true also of many of Haussknecht’s species. 
MELASTOMATACEAE 
BLASTUS Loureiro 
BLASTUS PAUCIFLORUS (Benth.) comb. nov. 
Allomorphia pauciflora Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. 1 (1842) 
485; Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 23 (1887) 301; Cogn. in 
DC. Monog. Phan. 7 (1891) 465; Dunn & Tutcher in Kew Bull. 
Add. Series 10 (1912) 107 (FI. Hongk. Kwangtung). 
Oxyspora ? pauciflora ; Benth. FI. Hongk. (1861) 116. 
Blastus hindsii Hance in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 13 (1873) 103. 
Hongkong, Victoria Peak, comm. W. J. Tutcher: Kwangtung Province, 
Loh Fau Mountain (Lofaushan), Merrill 10743, Levine 1462, about ledges 
in thickets, in damp ravines, altitude about 950 meters, August 16, 1917. 
An examination of the flowers of this species shows that it belongs in 
the genus Blastus, and it is accordingly so placed. Blastus cochinchi- 
nensis Lour, is distinguished, among other characters, by its short, axillary 
inflorescences. Leveille has described several species of Blastus with ter- 
minal inflorescences, some of which, judging from his wholly inadequate 
diagnoses, must be very close to the present species. 
