xv, 3 Merrill: Notes on the Kwangtung Flora 245 
to be revived, or the still earlier one, Croton apetalum Blume, 
transferred to Alchornea. It is to be noted that Pax and Hoff- 
mann saw no Cochin China material representing Loureiro’s 
species. 
ANACARDIACEAE 
POUPARTIA Commerson 
POUPARTIA CHINENSSS sp. nov. 
Arbor circiter 8 m alta, infioreseentiis exceptis glabra; foliis 
20 ad 30 cm longis, foliolis 11 ad 15, membranaceis ad char- 
taceis, oblongo-lanceolatis, 6 ad 9 cm longis, acuminatis, leviter 
inaequilateralibus, glabris vel junioribus subtus in axillis leviter 
barbatis, nervis utrinque 9 ad 12 ; petiolulis circiter 2 mm longis ; 
infioreseentiis terminalis, amplis, circiter 30 cm longis, ramis 
inferioribus usque ad. 15 cm longis, cinereo-pubescentibus ; flo- 
ribus $ 5-meris, calyces circiter 1.5 mm diametro; petalis 
oblongis, 2.5 mm longis, reflexis; staminibus 10, filamentis 2 ad 
2.3 mm longis ; ovario glabro, 4- ad 5-locellato. 
A tree about 8 m high, the inflorescences more or less cine- 
reous-pubescent. Ultimate branches about 5 mm in diameter, 
smooth, glabrous, terete. Leaves 20 to 30 cm long, the rachis 
sparingly pubescent; leaflets 11 to 15, membranaceous to char- 
taceous, oblong-lanceolate, 6 to 9 cm long, 1.5 to 2.5 cm wide, 
somewhat inequilateral at the base, apex acuminate, glabrous, 
or the younger ones sparingly bearded in the axils on the lower 
surface; lateral nerves 9 to 12 on each side of the midrib, 
slender; petiolules about 2 mm long. Inflorescence a terminal 
leafy panicle about 30 cm in length, the lower branches up to 
15 cm long, subtended by normal but usually reduced leaves, 
the upper 15 to 20 cm of the panicle leafless; the branches, 
branchlets, and pedicels cinereous-pubescent. Flowers numerous, 
white, pistillate and staminate ones in the same inflorescences. 
Calyx of the staminate flowers about 1.5 mm in diameter, the 
lobes 5, ovate, acute or obtuse, about 0.5 mm long. Petals oblong, 
2.5 mm long, their margins somewhat indexed, reflexed in an- 
thesis, nerveless. Stamens 10, their filaments filiform, 2 to 2.3 
mm long. Pistillate flowers similar to the staminate ones. Ovary 
glabrous, 4- or 5-celled ; styles 4 or 5, about 1 mm long. 
Kwangtung Province, Honam Island, on the campus of Can- 
ton Christian College, Levine 3521, May 13, 1919. 
This is the second species of the genus to be found in China, 
differing radically from Poupartia fordii Hemsl. in its very 
much larger, terminal, distinctly pubescent inflorescences, the 
