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ARALIACEAE 
DENDROPANAX Decaisne & Planchon 
DENDROPANAX ACU M I NATISSI M U M sp. nov. 
Frutex glaber, 3 ad 4 m altus ; foliis lanceolatis ad anguste lan- 
ceolatis, usque ad 11 cm longis, tenuiter caudato-acuminatis, basi 
acutis, integris, nervis utrinque 10 ad 12, tenuibus, indistinctis, 
anastomosantibus ; umbellis terminalibus, solitariis vel trims, 
breviter pedunculatis, subpaucifloris ; floribus 5-meris, circiter 
5.5 mm longis. 
A slender, erect, glabrous shrub, 3 to 4 m high, the branches 
and branchlets terete, somewhat brownish, the latter smooth. 
Leaves scattered, lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, firmly charta- 
ceous to subcoriaceous, rather pale-olivaceous when dry, 7 to 11 
cm long, 1 to 2 cm wide, entire, base acute, narrowed above into 
the slenderly caudate-acuminate apex ; lateral nerves 10 to 13 on 
each side of the midrib, slender, spreading-ascending, anasto- 
mosing, indistinct; petioles 1 to 3.5 cm long. Umbels terminal, 
solitary or in threes, about 2 cm in diameter in anthesis, their 
peduncles 5 to 10 mm long, 10- to 15-flowered, the bracteoles 
linear, 2 to 8 mm long, deciduous, the pedicels about 6 mm long. 
Calyx green, cup-shaped, about 3 mm long, its margin 5-denticu- 
late. Petals 5, white, ovate to oblong-ovate, 2.5 mm long. Fila- 
ments about 2 mm long. Ovary 5-celled; style stout, furrowed, 
somewhat narrowed upward, about 1.3 mm long. 
Kwangtung Province, Loh Fau Mountain (Lofaushan), Merrill 10817 
(type), Levine 1815, August 24, 1917, from the same plant. 
This species occurs on steep forested slopes of damp ravines, altitude 
800 to 1,000 meters, and is very rare, as only a few specimens were 
observed in several weeks’ work on Loh Fau Mountain. It is well char- 
acterized by its very narrow, lanceolate, slenderly acuminate leaves 
which are not at all 3-nerved or 3-plinerVed at the base. Dendropanax 
japonicum Seem, is abundant on open slopes on Loh Fau Mountain, while 
what I take to be D. proteum Benth. also occurs in similar habitats. 
ERICACEAE 
VACCINIUM Linnaeus 
VACCINIUM HANCOCKIAE sp. nov. 
Frutex 2 ad 3 m altus, glaber; foliis coriaceis, oblongo-ovatis 
ad oblongo-lanceolatis, in siccitate brunneo-olivaceis, nitidis, us- 
que ad 5 cm longis, acuminatis, basi acutis, margine cartilagineis, 
distanter serrulatis, nervis utrinque circiter 5, tenuibus, anasto- 
mosantibus ; racemis in axillis superioribus, circiter 2 cm longis, 
bracteolis oblongo-ovatis, circiter 1 mm longis ; floribus subcylin- 
draceis, circiter 7 mm longis, sursum leviter angustatis; calycis 
