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neis vel glaucescentibus, eleganter glanduloso-lepidotis, nervis 
utrinque circiter 8, distinctis; fructibus circiter 1.8 cm longis, 
oblongo-ovoideis, brunneis, glandulosis; sepalis persistentibus, 
subovatis, circiter 1.2 cm longis. 
A tree 3 to 4 m high, the young branchlets, petioles, and young 
leaves prominently ciliate with long, spreading, brown or ferru- 
ginous, slender hairs 3 to 5 mm in length. Branches terete, 
smooth, reddish-brown, glabrous. Leaves crowded at the apices 
of the branchlets, subcoriaceous, oblong-elliptic to elliptic, 5 to 
10 cm long, 3 to 5 cm wide, the apex broadly rounded, sometimes 
shortly apiculate, the base acute or subacute, the younger ones 
with scattered, slender, elongated hairs on both surfaces and on 
the margins, the older ones glabrous or nearly so, the upper 
surface shining, brownish-olivaceous when dry, the reticulations 
impressed, the lower surface of about the same color as the upper 
or glaucous, with numerous, scattered, brown, shining lepidote 
glands ; primary lateral nerves about 8 on each side of the midrib, 
slender, distinct, anastomosing; petioles 1 to 1.5 cm long. Flow- 
ers not seen. Fruits umbellately arranged at the tips of the 
branchlets, usually 3 to 5 on each branchlet, their pedicels about 
2 cm in length, glabrous or nearly so, the capsules brown when 
dry, glandular, oblong-ovoid, about 1.8 cm long and 1 cm in 
diameter, the subpersistent style at least 2.5 cm long; sepals 
persistent, subovate, obtuse, about 1.2 cm long, reticulate, glan- 
dular, glabrous, chartaceous. 
Kwangtung Province, Loh Fau Mountain (Lofaushan), Merrill 10952 
(type), Levine 1830, from the same plant, August 24, 1917, in a deep 
forested ravine in the “Perfect Pool gorge” growing out over a small 
stream, altitude about 950 meters. 
This species must be exceedingly rare, as only a single plant was observed 
during our exploration of the numerous gorges on the upper slopes of Loh 
Fau Mountain. It is strikingly characterized by its indumentum; its 
subelliptic leaves which are broadly rounded at the apices and prominently 
lepidote-glandular beneath; and its persistent, reticulate sepals. It is 
dedicated to Mr. C. O. Levine, of the Canton Christian College. 
CLETHRACEAE 
CLETHRA Linnaeus 
CLETHRA FABRI Hance in Journ Bot. 21 (1883) 130. 
Clethra canescens Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 26 (1881) 33; 
Dunn & Tutcher in Kew Bull. Add. Series 10 (1912) 155, non 
Reinw. 
Kwangtung Province, Loh Fau Mountain (Lofaushan), Merrill 107W2, 
August 21, 1917, about boulders on open grassy slopes, altitude about 1,100 
meters, rare. 
The type of Clethra fabri Hance was from Loh Fau Mountain. Hance’s 
