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ASPARAGUS Tournefort 
ASPARAGUS COCHiNCHINENSIS (Lour.) comb. nov. 
Melanthium cochincliinense Lour. FI. Cochinch. (1790) 216. 
Asparagus lucidus Lindl. in Bot. Reg. (1844) Misc. 29. 
Loureiro observed this species in both China and Cochin China, 
and his description applies unmistakably to the well-known As- 
paragus lucidus Lindl., in spite of his description of the fruit as 
a capsule, this being - a manifest error on the part of Loureiro. 
Kwangtung material representing the species, and for which the 
Cantonese name tin tung is recorded, corresponding to the form 
Loureiro cites, tien muen turn, is as follows: Merrill 10699, Le- 
vine 217 A, Groff 2290, Dunn 6337. I have also examined the 
following specimens: Hongkong, Curran. Hainan, Miss Monin- 
ger 62. Formosa, Faurie 9A7, Bot. Inst. Tokyo 1570. 
ZXNGXBERACEAE 
PHRYNIUM Willdenow 
PHRYNiUM PLACENTARIUM (Lour.) comb. nov. 
Phyllodes placentaria Lour. FI. Cochinch. (1790) 13. 
Phrynium parviflorum Roxb. FI. Ind. 1 (1820) 7; K. Schum. in Engl. 
Pflanzenreich 11 (1902) 54. 
Loureiro observed this species both in China and in Cochin 
China. The generic name Phyllodes antedates Phrynium, but 
the latter is retained in the list of nomina conservanda adopted 
by the Vienna Botanical Congress. K. Schumann cites Lourei- 
ro’s species as a doubtful synonym of Phrynium capitatum Willd., 
a purple-flowered species recorded from both China and Cochin 
China. From Loureiro’s description of the flowers of his species 
as white I am convinced that he had specimens of the species 
currently known as Phrynium parviflorum Roxb., of which X 
have excellent specimens from Coclhn China, Pierre 626 , and 
fPom Kwangtung Province, China, Levine 1873, Groff 252 A, with 
the recorded Cantonese name chung ip, corresponding to Lou- 
reiro’s recorded Cantonese name toung iep. 
ORCHIDACEAE 
SPIRANTHES L. C. Richard 
SPIRANTHES ARiSTOTEL! A (Raeusch.) comb. nov. 
Epidendrum aristotelia Raeusch. Nomencl. ed. 3 (1797) 265. 
Aristotelia spiralis Lour. FI. Cochinch. (1790) 522. 
Spiranthes australis Lindl. in Bot. Reg. (1824) sub t. 823, non Koch. 
I Neottia sinensis Pers. Syn. 2 (1807) 511. 
Spiranthes sinensis Ames Orch. 2 (1908) 53. 
Aristotelia spiralis Lour., described by him as a new genus 
and species, was based on specimens from the vicinity of Canton. 
