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ACANTHACEAE 
HEM IGRAPH !S Nees 
1919 
HEM iGRAPH !S PROCUMBENS (Lour.) comb. nov. 
Barleria procumbens Lour. FI. Cochinch. (1790) 377. 
Ruellia chinensis Nees in DC. Prodr. 11 (1847) 147. 
Hemigraphis chinensis T. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. 26 (1890) 
238. 
Strobilanthes scaber Hance in Journ. Bot. 16 (1878) 231, non Nees. 
Loureiro’s material was from the vicinity of Canton, where 
the species is still common, and on account of its yellow flowers 
is rather conspicuous in dry thickets. His description applies 
unmistakably to the species currently known as Hemigraphis 
chinensis T. Anders. It is represented by Merrill 10135 and 
Levine 181. 
CAPRIFOLIACEAE 
LONICERA Linnaeus 
LONICERA DASYSTYLA Rehder in Kept. Mo. Bot. Gard. 14 (1903) 158, 
t. h, f. 1-3. 
Kwangtung Province, North River, Sai Sha, Sz Ooi, Groff 
2f02, April 24, 1918, with the local name kam ngan fa. 
The specimen agrees closely with Rehder’s figure and descrip- 
tion, differing in but few minor details. The leaves average 
smaller than in the type and are glabrous, while the older 
branchlets are brownish rather than grayish. The pubescent 
style is characteristic. Previously reported only from Tonkin. 
CUCURBITACEAE 
GYMNOPETALUM Arnott 
GYMNOPETALUM CHINENSE (Lour.) comb. nov. 
Euonymus chinensis Lour. FI. Cochinch. (1790) 156. 
Bryonia cochinchinensis Lour. op. cit. 595. 
Gymnopetalum cochinchinense Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 40 2 
(1871) 57; Cogn. in DC. Monog. Phan. 3 (1881) 391. 
Both of Loureiro’s descriptions apply unmistakably to the 
species currently known as Gymnopetalum cochinchinense Kurz, 
and it is indeed curious that he should have placed a cucurbita- 
ceous plant in the celastraceous genus Euonymus. The type of 
Euonymus chinensis was from the vicinity of Canton, for which 
Loureiro records the Cantonese name kam qua. It is repre- 
sented by the following recently collected material from the 
vicinity of Canton, with the recorded names ka shui kwali and 
ye kwah, Levine 1108, 1705, 2183. 
