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brous, 5 mm long. Fruits sparingly appressed-pubescent, oblong- 
ovoid, terete, about 5 mm long. 
Kwangtung Province, Kochow region, Lai Tung and Shan Mi, 
To Kang P’eng 2714 (type), 2677, February and March, 1919, 
the former with the local name ye cha fa. 
This species, dedicated to Mr. C. G. Fuson, through whose 
interest it was possible to do some field work in the Kochow 
region, is distinctly allied to Symplocos anomala Brand of Yun- 
nan Province, from which it differs in its shorter, much less 
acuminate, fewer-nerved leaves, and somewhat longer, more 
numerously flowered racemes. 
SYMPLOCOS CHINENSIS (Lour.) Desvaux MS. in herb. Mus. Paris, comb, 
nov. 
Myrtus chinensis Lour. FI. Cochinch. (1790) 313. 
Symplocos sinica Ker in Bot. Reg. 9 (1823) t. 710; Brand in Engl. 
Pflanzenreich 6 (1901) 34. 
Loureiro’s material was from the vicinity of Canton, and his 
description applies unmistakably to the species currently known 
as Symplocos sinica Ker. It is common on hills near Canton 
and is represented by the following Kwangtung material: Merrill 
10725, Levine 15, 29 4, 637, 1787, 2372, 3198, 3403. The only 
recorded local name is hak tsz in the Lin District; Loureiro 
records the Cantonese name as tan quat xicng. Among the other 
new genera and species described by Loureiro Dicalyx cochin- 
chinensis Lour, is Symplocos cochinchinensis Moore; Decaclia 
aluminosa Lour, is apparently identical with Symplocos spicata 
Roxb. ; Drupatris cochinchinensis Lour, is certainly a Symplocos ; 
and Myrtus zeylanica Lour, (non Linn.) is probably a Symplocos. 
Loureiro’s type of Myrtus chinensis is preserved in the herba- 
rium of the Paris Museum of Natural History. 
LOGANIACEAE 
STRYCHNOS Linnaeus 
STRYCHNOS UMBELLATA (Lour.) comb. nov. 
Cissus umbellata Lour. FI. Cochinch. (1790) 84. 
Strychnos paniculata Champ, in Hook. Kew Journ. Bot. 5 (1853) 56. 
Planchon, 12 in excluding Loureiro’s species from the Vitaceae, 
suggests that it might be a Strychnos. I am of the opinion that 
this is the correct disposition of Cissus umbellata Lour., and 
“ DC. Monog. Phan, 5 (1887) 626. 
