中国樟科木姜子属植物纪要*

描述一新种即沧源木姜子Litsea cangyuanensis J. Li et H. W. Li; 一中国新纪录种白叶木姜子L1albescens
( Hook. f. ) D. G. Long; 3 个新异名: 大叶木姜子L1 chunii Cheng var1longipedicellata Yang f1 latif olia Yang 归并到高
山木姜子L1 chunii Cheng, 狭叶桂北木姜子M1 subcoriacea Yang et P. H. Huang var. stenophylla Yang et P. H.
Huang 归并入桂北木姜子L1 subcoriacea Yang et P. H. Huang, 狭叶华南木姜子L1greenmaniana Allen var1 angustifolia
Yang et P. H. Huang 归入华南木姜子L1greenmaniana Allen; 思茅木姜子L1szemaois ( H. Liou) J. Li et H. W. Li
作为新等级提升为种; 并对秃净木姜子L1 kingii Hook. f. 与山鸡椒L1 cubeba ( Lour . ) Pers. 两者间的差异进
行澄清, 对台湾产的黄肉树应采用L1 hypophaea Hayata 和广西产的蜂窝木姜子应采用L1f oveola Kosterm. 进
行了讨论。一个新名称: L1 sinoglobosa J. Li et H. W. Li 替代同名的L1 globosa Yang et P. H. Huang 。     

木姜子属及山胡椒属的平行演化

本文阐述樟科木姜子属及山胡椒属两者在形态、分布、起源及演化等方面有许多共同之处,不仅在属内具有平行演化的情况,而且各自平行演化成单花木姜子属Dodecade-nia和单花山胡椒属Iteadaphne。同时两者又分别自4药室的拟檫木属Parasassafras和2药室的黄脉檫木属Sinosassafras演化而来。本文将单花木姜子亚属Litsea subg.UniflosYang et P.H.Huang归入单花木姜子属,并把Litsea monantha Yang et P.H.Hu-ang一种作为单花木姜子(原变种)Dodecadenia grandiflora Nees var.grandiflora的新异名,恢复了单花山胡椒属Iteadaphne B1.,并将香面叶Lindera caudata(Nees)Hook.f.重新组合归入该属为I.caudata(Nees)H.W.Li,comb.nov。此外,本文还发表了一个新属即黄脉檫木属Sinosassafras H.W.Li,gen.nov.,它具有2药室花药而不同于其平行演化的拟檫木属。     

中国豆科和樟科几种植物学名的订正

在编写《Flora of China》过程中,根据标本和文献的查阅,对国产豆科和樟科几种植物学名进行修订。本文记述5个新组合、4个新异名和一个恢复的种名。5个新组合是:垂果山蚂蝗Desmodium strigilosum var.pendenticarpum(C.Z.Gao Q.R.Lai) P.H.Huang,心叶山蚂蝗Desmodium flexuosum var.cordifoliolatum(P.C.Li) P.H.Huang,密毛长柄山蚂蝗Podocarpium densum(C.Chen et X.J.Cui)P.H.Huang,东北长柄山蚂蝗Podocarpium podocarpum var.mandshuricum(Maxim.) P.H.Huang和尖叶长柄山蚂蝗Podocarpium podocarpum var.japon-icum(Matsum.)P.H.Huang.4个新异名如下:李氏木姜子Litsea lii C.E.Chang及其变种能汉木姜子var.nunkao-tahangensis(Liao) Liao作为竹叶木姜子L.pseudoelongata Liou Ho的新异名,竹头角木姜子L.akosensis var.chitouchiaoensis Liao作为台湾木姜子L.hayatae Kanehira的新异名和密毛山蚂蝗Desmodium densum (C.Chen et X.J.Cui)H.Ohashi作为密毛长柄山蚂蝗Podocarpium densum (C.Chen et X.J.Cui)P.H.Huang的新异名。由于Litsea pedicellata一名被占用,恢复Litsea taiwaniana Kamikoti作为黄肉树合法的种名。     

本姜子属及山胡椒属的平行演化

本文阐述樟科木姜子属及山胡椒属两者在形态、分布、起源及演化等方面有许多共同之处,不仅在属内具有平行演化的情况,而且各自平行演化成单花木姜子属 Dodecade－nia和单花山胡椒属Iteadaphne。同时两者又分别自4药室的拟擦术属Parasassafras和2药室的黄脉擦术属 sinosassafras演化而来。本文将单花木姜子亚属 Litsea subg．Uniflos Yang et P．H．Huang归人单花木姜子属,并把 Litsea monantha Yang et P．H．Hu－ang一种作为单花木姜子（原变种）Dodecadenia grandiflora Nees var．grandiflora的新异名,恢复了单花山胡椒属Iteadaphne Bl.,并将香面叶Lindera caudata（Nees）Hook·f．重新组合归入该属为Ⅰ．caudata（Nees）H．W．Li,comb．nov。此外,本文还发表了一个新属即黄脉擦木屑 Sinosassafras H．W．Li,gen．nov.,它具有2药室花药而不同于其平行演化的拟擦本属。     

广西假糙苏属植物增补

报道假糙苏属(Paraphlomis)植物在中国广西2个新分类群和2个新记录种.2个新分类群是翅柄假糙苏(P.javanica(Blume)Prain var.pteropoda D.Fang & K. J.Yan)和白脉狭叶假糙苏(P.javanica(Blume)Prain var.angustifolia (C.Y. Wu)C.Y.Wu&H. W.Li f.albinervia D.Fang & K J.Yan).2个新记录种是刚毛假糙苏(P.hispida C.Y.Wu)和近革叶假糙苏(P.subcoriacea C.Y Wu ex H. W.Li).     

文卉石斛，福建石斛属(兰科)一新变种

记载了在福建省发现的兰科石斛属植物一新变种——文卉石斛Dendrobium luoi var. wenhuii W. L. Yang,并描述其与原变种罗氏石斛D. luoi L. J. Chen et W. H. Rao和近缘种D. zhenghuoense S. P. Chen, L. Ma & M. H. Li的形态特征区别。     

湖南樟科一新种

<正> Actinodaphne sessilifructa C. J. Qi et K. W. Liu, sp. nov. Haec species A. kweichowensi Yang et P. H. Huang arcte affinis, sed foliis obovatis, petiolis comparate brevibus, inflorescentiis floribusque sessilibus vel subsessilibus, ovario glabro, stigmate bifido, fructu ellipsoideo inter alia differt.     

中国竹亚科空竹属的整理

我国竹亚科空竹属(Cephalostachyum Munro)植物发现于云南和西藏两省区,集中分布于云南。根据形态学性状,以及近年来叶片微形态和分子系统学研究结果,作者对我国空竹属物种进行了整理并编制了分种检索表。结果显示,我国空竹属现知有7种,云南均有分布:薄竹(Cephalostachyum chinense(Rendle)D.Z.Li et H.Q.Yang)、空竹(C.fuchsianum Gamble et Hook.f.)、独龙江空竹(C.mannii(Gamble)Stapleton et D.Z.Li)、小空竹(C.pallidum Munro)、屏边空竹(C.pingbianense(Hsueh et Y.M.Yang ex Yi et al.)D.Z.Li et H.Q.Yang)、红毛空竹(C.sanguineum(W.P.Zhang)D.Z.LiH.Q.Yang)、真麻竹(C.scandens Bor)。薄竹属(Leptocanna Chia et H.L.Fung)和毒空竹(C.virulentum Y.M.Yang et F.Du)分别为空竹属和空竹的异名。另一方面,原置于空竹属的香糯竹(C.pergracile Munro)和金毛空竹(C.virgatum(Munro)Kurz)的形态特征则更接近狭义的竹属(Schizostachyum Nees),应该处理为狭义竹属成员。本研究对空竹属今后的修订工作有重要意义。     

国产樟科楠属五种植物之分类修订

根据分子系统学研究结果,楠属（Phoebe）中以其宿存的花被片在果时松散、先端外倾,果实球形为特征的物种,即山楠Phoebe chinensis Chun,小花楠P．minutiflora H．W．Li,竹叶楠P．faberi（Hemsl．）Chun,小叶楠Pmicrophylla H．W．Li以及长毛楠P．forrestiiW．W．Smith均应归入润楠属（Machilus）,其中原先作为润楠属物种发表的竹叶润楠Machilus faberi Hemsl．应予采用,但山楠一种其种加词发表时已是晚出同名,另起新名为Machilus montana L．Li,J．Li＆H．W．Li,nom．nov,而余下三种作为新组合在此发表,即：M.minutiflora（H．W．Li）L．Li,J．Li＆H．W．Li,comb．nov．;M．microphylla（H．W．Li）L．Li．J．Li＆H.W．Li,comb．nov．及Mforrestii（W．W．Smith）L．Li,J．Li＆H_W．Li,comb．nov．。     

湖北省被子植物1个新记录属和5个新记录种

报道了湖北省被子植物1个新记录属：葛缕子属（Carum L.）;5个新记录种：田葛缕子（Carum buriaticum Turcz.）、南川鹿药（Maianthemum nanchuanense H. Li & J. L. Huang）、宽叶香茶菜〔Isodon latifolius （C. Y. Wu & H. W. Li） H. Hara〕、广东新耳草〔Neanotis kwangtungensis （Merrill & F. P. Metcalf） W. H. Lewis〕和毛柱郁李（Prunus pogonostyla Maxim.）。相关凭证标本保存于中国科学院武汉植物园标本馆（HIB）。     

Ectogenesis and the case against the right to the death of the foetus

Ectogenesis, or the use of an artificial womb to allow a foetus to develop, will likely become a reality within a few decades, and could significantly affect the abortion debate. We first examine the implications for Judith Jarvis Thomson’s violinist analogy, which argues for a woman’s right to withdraw life support from the foetus and so terminate her pregnancy, even if the foetus is granted full moral status. We show that on Thomson’s reasoning, there is no right to the death of the foetus, and abortion is not permissible if ectogenesis is available, provided it is safe and inexpensive. This raises the question of whether there are persuasive reasons for the right to the death of the foetus that could be exercised in the context of ectogenesis. Eric Mathison and Jeremy Davis have examined several arguments for this right, doubting that it exists, while Joona Räsänen has recently criticized their reasoning. We respond to Räsänen’s analysis, concluding that his arguments are unsuccessful, and that there is no right to the death of the foetus in these circumstances.     

On the diversity of the Cladocera in the tropics

The mythical concept of an impoverished tropical cladoceran fauna is refuted. On a planetary scale, around half of the cladoceran species presently known occur exclusively in the tropics-subtropics, often with considerable restriction to particular geographical subzones. On a regional (political) scale, the situation is often unclear because of the continued fragmentary nature of studies, and because political units are not a good basis for biogeographical comparisons. At the finest level of resolution (lake-perlake comparisons), there appears to be an upper limit of c. 50 cladoceran species per individual lake. No significant difference between lakes in the temperate zone and in the tropics could be established here. Daphnia is largely absent from the tropics, but is replaced by more Sidids, Moinids, and Bosminids, such that the average cladoceran community in the limnetic zone of a tropical lake is not characterized by less species but rather by lower population densities. This, in turn, is considered a consequence of higher prevalent predation levels in the tropics.     

Tubular networks in the terminal endings of the visual receptor cells in the human,the monkey,the cat and the dog

Summary A tubular network was found in the terminal endings of the visual receptor cells in the human, the monkey (Macaca mulatta), the cat and the dog. These tubules are arranged in close groups in the vicinity of the synaptic lamellae and the invaginated dendrites. According to the form, diameter, density of the tubules and to the consistence of the network formed by them one can distinguish at these places an initial type (type I), a transitory (type II) and a vesicular one (type III). In the the type III branching, bizarre forms are frequent. The diameter of all the tubules reaches 500–600 Å, their density and walls being the same as in the synaptic vesicles.Similar networks also occur in the axons of the visual receptor cells of the monkey.

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Zusammenfassung In den Endigungen der Photorezeptorzellen von Mensch, Affe (Macaca mulatta), Katze und Hund kommen aus Tubuli bestehende Komplexe vor. Organellenartig in geschlossenen Gruppen angeordnet, liegen sie in Nähe der synaptischen Lamellen und der invaginierten Dendriten. An diesen Stellen kann man nach Form, Durchmesser, Dichte und Konsistenz der von den Tubuli gebildeten Komplexe drei Typen unterscheiden: 1. einen initialen (Typus I), 2. einen Übergangstypus (Typus II) und 3. einen vesiculären Typus (Typus III). In letzterem kommen häufig verzweigte, bizarre Formen vor. Der Durchmesser sämtlicher Tubuli erreicht 500–600 Å. Ihre Dichte und ihre Wand gleicht denen der synaptischen Vesikel.Ähnliche Komplexe fanden wir auch in den Axonen der Photorezeptorzellen vom Affen.

     

Assessing the Physiological State of the Fucoids from the Barents Sea Littoral by the End of the Polar Night

Methods of amperometry and potentiometric titration were used to follow dark respiration (DR) and apparent photosynthesis (AP) in the fucoids Ascophyllum nodosum (L.) Le Jol, Fucus vesiculosus L., and F. serratus L. from the Barents Sea littoral by the end of the 40-day-long polar night. The macroalgae were shown to manifest species-specific low rates of photosynthesis and respiration. However, in spite of their low photosynthetic status due to the effects of subzero temperature and prolonged low or zero illumination, the macroalgae have been able to restore DR and AP to the initial level already by the day 9; the ability to restore AP depended on the level of illumination. The study of the changes in the carbonate–bicarbonate system in the light and darkness demonstrated that the macroalgae grown in darkness, in contrast to those grown in twilight, could absorb bicarbonate in darkness; however, they lost this capacity after two-day-long illumination at an irradiance of 7 mol/(m² s). Bicarbonate uptake in darkness and the capacity to restore the systems of photosynthesis and respiration in fucoid cells are discussed in the context of algal energy metabolism under the polar night conditions.     

Arranging the elements of the potassium channel: the T1 domain occludes the cytoplasmic face of the channel

The voltage-gated potassium channel is currently one of the few membrane proteins where functional roles have been mapped onto specific segments of sequence. Although high-resolution structures of the transmembrane portions of three bacterial potassium channels, the tetramerization domain and the cytoplasmic ball are available, their relative spatial arrangement in mammalian channels remains a matter of ongoing debate. Cryo-electron microscopic images of the six transmembrane voltage-gated Kv channel have been reconstructed at up to 18 Å resolution, revealing that the T1 domain tetramerizes and is suspended below the transmembrane segments. However, the resolution of these images is insufficient to reveal the location of the third piece of the puzzle, the inactivating ball domain. We have used the aberrant interactions observed in a series of chimæric channels to establish that an assembled T1 domain restricts access to the cytoplasmic face of the channel, suggesting that the N-terminal ball and chain may be confined in the space between the T1 domain and the transmembrane portion of the channel.     

Feeding the vertebrate retina from the Cambrian to the Tertiary

The retina of the vertebrate eye is metabolically active and requires nutritive support. During the last 540 million years it has evolved into forms as complicated and nutritionally demanding as those found in avian or primate eyes. Diffusion from the choroid is generally able to supply the metabolic needs of thin retinae. However, when the thickness exceeds the limits of diffusion, structures are needed to supplement the vascular supply from the choroid. These supplemental nutritive devices include the choroidal gland, the falciform process and preretinal vascular plexus of fish, the conus papillaris of lizards, the pecten oculi of birds, the intraretinal vessels of mammals and a few novel systems that remain difficult to classify. These vascular systems are among the most variable features of the vertebrate eye. Here, we review classical and recent findings regarding such retinal nutrition systems, propose a three category classification for them based on histologic origins and speculate on the evolutionary forces which drove their development.     

Separation of the pineal vesicle from the wall of the third ventricle during the post-hatching development of the chicken

Summary According to light- and electron-microscopic observations the pineal organ of the 3-day-old chicken consists of a prominent end vesicle and a tapering parenchymal stalk. During this stage the pineal lumen is in open communication with the third ventricle. However, in the 40-day-old chicken, which still possesses a well-developed end vesicle, the proximal portion of the pineal stalk displays regressive changes leading to local fragmentation. At this stage the pineal stalk is reduced, and the pineal lumen is missing. In 1-year-old chickens the parenchyma of the proximal portion of the stalk is further diminished, and in 3-year-old domestic fowl is completely displaced by bundles of collagenous fibers, only some nerve fibers being present. This post-hatching pineal development may reflect the sequence of changes leading from pineal sense organs to pineal glands.This work was supported by a grant-in-aid for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture of Japan     

Observations on the permeability of the choriocapillaris of the eye

Summary The choriocapillaris is a fenestrated capillary bed located posterior to the retinal pigment epithelium. It serves as the main source of supply to the photoreceptors, retinal pigment epithelium, and other cells of the outer retina. The permeability of these capillaries to intravenously injected ferritin (MW — approx. 480,000; mol. diam. 11 nm) was examined in the mouse, rabbit, and guinea pig, each of which is characterized by a different type of retinal vascularization. In all three species, the bulk of the ferritin remained in the capillary lumina, where it appeared to be blocked at the level of the diaphragmed fenestrae. Some ferritin was present in endothelial cell vacuoles. The results confirm previous work on the rat choriocapillaris and indicate that the barrier function of the choriocapillary endothelium is present even among species in which the retinal circulation differs significantly.Supported by NIH grant EY03418