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species was reduced by Hemsley to the Malayan Clethra canescens Reinw., 
the type of which was from Celebes. Comparison of the Chinese material 
with a Celebes specimen, presumably representing Reinwardt’s species, 
shows that the two are unmistakably distinct. The Chinese form is also 
specifically distinct from the Philippine Clethra lancifolia Turcz., erron- 
eously placed by Hemsley as a synonym of Clethra canescens Reinw. 
Clethra fabri Hance can readily be distinguished C. canescens Reinw. by 
its much fewer-nerved leaves, and from C. lancifolia Turcz. by its distinctly 
larger flowers. 
VERBENACEAE 
CALLICARPA Linnaeus 
CALLICARPA OLIGANTH A sp. nov. 
Frutex 2 ad 3 m altus, subglaber, ramulis junioribus parcissime 
et decidue stellato-pubescentibus ; foliis brevissime petiolatis, 
anguste lanceolatis, usque ad 12 cm longis et 1.5 cm latis, charta- 
ceis, utrinque subaequaliter angustatis, acuminatis, basi cuneatis, 
margine in § superiore parte distincte serrulatis, supra glabris, 
subtus glandulosis, glabris, vel junioribus parcissime stellato- 
pubescentibus, nervis utrinque 7 ad 9, curvatp-adscendentibus, 
tenuibus; cymis axillaribus depauperatis, 2- vel 3-floris, brevis- 
sime pedunculatis, pedicellis glabris, circiter 4 mm longis ; f ructi- 
bus globosis, 3 ad 3.5 mm diametro, glabris, calycis persistentibus, 
glabris, truncatis. 
A slender shrub, 2 to 3 m high, in age glabrous or nearly so, 
the young branchlets sparingly stellate-pubescent. Branches 
slender, terete, smooth, glabrous, grayish. Leaves narrowly lan- 
ceolate, chartaceous, 6 to 12 cm long, 0.8 to 1.5 cm wide, narrowed 
at both ends, the upper surface glabrous, smooth, eglandular, 
brownish-olivaceous, shining, the lower surface slightly paler, 
distinctly pitted-glandular, glabrous, or when young sparingly 
stellate-pubescent near the midrib, the base cuneate, the apex 
rather slenderly but bluntly acuminate, the margins in the upper 
two-thirds distinctly serrulate ; lateral nerves 7 to 9 on each side 
of the midrib, slender, curved-ascending, anastomosing, the 
reticulations slender, not prominent; petioles 2 mm long or less. 
Cymes axillary, few, subsessile or shortly peduncled, depauper- 
ate, 2- or 3-flowered, the peduncles 2 mm long or less, the pedi- 
cels not exceeding 4 mm in length, glabrous. Fruits globose or 
subglobose, dark-brown when dry, 3 to 3.5 mm in diameter, 
glabrous, the persistent calyx truncate, glabrous. 
Kwangtung Province, Loh Fau Mountain (Lofaushan), Merrill 11060, 
August 23, 1917, in thickets along small streams, altitude about 900 meters; 
rare, but a single plant seen. 
The alliance of this species is manifestly with the form commonly 
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