Abstract: According to the information including type material with regard to Raphiolepis major Card. and R. indica (L.) Lindl., the morphological differences between these two closely related taxa are largely quantitative, i.e., the former has larger leaves, flowers and fruits, and longer petioles and pedicels than the latter. But since these characteristics are rather variable, they can hardly be proven to be sound in separating these two taxa as distinct. By using methods of quantitative analysis with scatter diagrams on herbarium materials, we have found that the characteristics used to discriminate the two taxa either tend to display continuous variational patterns, or vary at random. Both eases suggest that the morphological variations of individual sample plants are probably due to the different modes of growth or development of plants in response to varied environments. Since these two taxa are taxonomically inseparable from each other as a whole, it seems advisable to treat them as one single species. Thus, the lately published R. major Card.should be reduced to a synonym of R. indica (L.) Lindl.