xv, 3 Merrill: Notes on the Kwangtung Flora 229 
Kwangtung Province, Shiuchow region, Levine 3565, May 3, 
1919, scattered along roads northeast of Nam Wa monastery. 
I am unable to refer this specimen to any previously described 
species. It is apparently allied to Arisaema japonicum Blume. 
LILIACEAE 
SC ILL A Linnaeus 
SCILLA SINENSIS (Lour.) comb. nov. 
Ornithogallum sinense Lour. FI. Cochinch. (1790) 206. 
Barnardia scilloides Lindl. in Bot. Reg. i. 1029. 
Scilla chinensis Benth. FI. Hongk. (1861) 373. 
Loureiro’s species is manifestly identical with the one cur- 
rently known as Scilla chinensis Benth., the latter having been 
published independently of Convallaria chinensis Osbeck 3 which 
is unquestionably a synonym although very imperfectly described. 
It is not uncommon in open grassy places in the vicinity of Can- 
ton whence Loureiro secured his material, and is represented by 
the following Kwangtung material: Merrill 10048, Levine 3270. 
34-21, the latter with the recorded local name shik sun tau. 
DISPORUM Salisbury 
DISPORUM CANTON I ENSE (Lour.) comb. nov. 
Fritillaria cantoniensis Lour. FI. Cochinch. (1790) 206. 
Disporum pullum Salisb. in Trans. Hort. Soc. 1 (1812) 331. 
Uvularia chinensis Ker in Curtis’s Bot. Mag. t. 916. 
Loureiro’s material was from plants cultivated in Canton, for 
which he cites the local name lin ni hoa. W right 4 admits Fri- 
tillaria cantoniensis Lour, with the following comment: “A 
doubtful plant supposed by Gawler to be the same as Uvularia 
chinensis, which is now reduced to Disporum pullum Salisb.” 
Hooker f., 5 under Disporum pullum Salisb. states: “The type of 
this species is the Chinese Uvularia chinensis of the Botanical 
Magazine, a purple flowered plant hardly distinguishable from 
shortly spurred specimens of calcaratum.” Loureiro’s descrip- 
tion is ample and applies unmistakably to Disporum; his specific 
name should be retained for the Chinese form currently referred 
to Disporum pullum Salisb. I am by no means certain that all 
the Indo-Malayan material currently referred to Disporum pullum 
Salisb. is conspecific with the Chinese form. 
“ Dagbok Ostind. Resa (1757) 220. 
’Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 23 (1903) 136. 
5 FI. Brit. Ind. 6 (1892) 260. 
