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strigose-hirsute with widely scattered, short hairs, the lower 
surface sparingly pubescent with widely scattered, short, cine- 
reous hairs on the midrib, nerves, reticulations, and epidermis; 
lateral nerves about 10 on each side of the midrib, distinct; 
petioles 5 to 10 mm long; stipules coriaceous, persistent, or- 
bicular-reniform, somewhat hirsute, 7 to 9 mm wide, rounded, 
sometimes contracted below and distinctly stipitate. Panicles 
terminal, ample, up to 20 cm long and wide, densely cinereous- 
villous. Flowers very numerous, densely crowded in glomerules 
on the ultimate branches ; bracts 5 to 7 mm long. Calyx densely 
cinereous-villous, about 2.5 mm long, the lobes oblong. Corolla- 
tube 4 to 5 mm long, slender, glabrous externally, sparingly 
pubescent within. 
Kwangtung Province, Kochow region, Shek Kau Tong, To 
Kang P’eng 2691 (type), March 6, 1919. To this species I also 
refer the following specimens, both described as shrubs about 
2 m high, both with somewhat smaller leaves than the type and 
with unopened flowers: To Kang P’eng 2754, 2702, the former 
from Sheung Ivo Wan, with the local name fo shin nap, the latter 
from Shek Ling, with the local name chii lilt shii. 
This species is manifestly allied to Wendlandia paniculata 
(Roxb.) DC., the type of which was from the Molucca Islands. 
Comparison with Amboina material, Robinson 1731, represent- 
ing the typical form of Roxburgh’s species, shows that the 
Chinese form differs radically in its very densely cinereous- 
villous inflorescences and calyces, and in its very densely crowded 
flowers, in the disposition of the flowers strongly resembling 
Wendlandia tinctoria DC. The Chinese form described by Hance 
as Wendlandia uvariifolia has been reduced to Wendlandia pani- 
culata DC. It is represented by Levine 2338, from the North 
River region, and is distinctly different from Wendlandia pani- 
culata and I believe should be retained as of specific rank under 
Hance’s name. It differs from both Wendlandia paniculata DC. 
and W. chinensis Merr. in its leaves being rather densely ferru- 
ginous-pubescent beneath, while the disposition of the flowers 
and the indumentum of the inflorescences and calyces are quite 
different from the latter species. 
MUSSAENDA Linnaeus 
MUSSAENDA PARVIFLORA Miq. Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. 3 (1867) 
110 . 
Kwangtung Province, Ting Woo Mountain and at Wan Lo 
Mountain, Kochow region, Levine 1979, To Kang P’eng 2692, 
April, 1918, and March, 1919. 
