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desideratur. 



ifonni, stigmate simplice. Fructus 



J. iiiJAia,u. oziemau, xorests, ait. iOUU : 



locality, A, Henry (Nos. 11737% 11737^). 





jj ^^, ^^^,^,y VJ.1WO. ixnj« , ±±iOi ), 



This species is apparently most closely related to M. lancifolia Hooker f ., which 

 we have not seen, but according to the description that species differs in its larger, 

 broader, entire leaves, longer, more dense pubescence and in its coriaceous inner 

 sepals. This new species is also related to M. Hgida Siebold & Zuccarini, which 

 has chartaceous, oblanceolate to obovate-cuneate abruptly acummate leaves, 

 more ferrugmous tomentum and thyrsoid panicles, Nos. 11737% 11737^, differ 

 from the type m their smaller and more densely villose panicles with shorter 

 lateral branches and m thek chartaceous persistent leaves, while the type specimen 

 nas only young membranous leaves. 



Sect. 2. PiNNATAE Warb. 



Veitchiorum 



155 (1906). — Bean in Kew Bull. Misc. Inform. 1910, 173, t. 



Meliosma longicalyx Lecomte in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, s6r. 4, VII. 675 



(1907). ' ' 



Western Hupeh: Hsing-shan Hsien, woods, alt. 1300-2000 m., 

 May 20, June 3 and September 1907 (No. 322, in part; tree 5-15 m. 

 tall, 0.3-2 m. girth, flowers yellow, fragrant, in large drooping panicles; 

 fruit black) ; Fang Hsien, woodlands, alt. 1600-1800 m., not common, 

 June and September 1907 (No. 322, in part; tree 5-16 m. tall, girth 

 0.3-2 m., flowers yellow, fragrant, fruit black); same locality, alt. 

 1600-2300 m., October 1910 (No. 4457; tree 10-16 m. tall, 1.5-2.5 m. 

 girth, fruit black); Changyang Hsien, woods, alt. 1500 m., very rare, 

 June 1907 (No. 322, in part; tree &-13 m. tall, flowers greenish 

 yellow). Eastern Szech'uan: Wushan Hsien, woodlands, 1500- 

 2000 m., June 1901 (Veitch Exped. No. 1046, type). 



„n J^'^ J-emafkable tree is abundant in moist woods throughout Hsing-shan Hsien 

 and Fang Hsien between 1300-2300 m. altitude, but is rare in other parts of Hupeh 

 rrlH^l f^-°, /"^ from western Szech'uan. It is a tree of medium height with 

 a loot rf ^ } , "i""^ and ascending and very shghtly spreading branches forming 

 tnZluT'^'f^}'^''^- IH \^'^ '« Sray, shghtly fissur^ and with age exfohates 

 Leth^r «t flf ^ J ^''J?''^ ^"^^^ ^^^ '^"-g^ le*^«« a« deciduous, crowded to- 

 honev ,tnt!H'"fl *^' hr^^'^h^, and in falhng leave very prominent scars. The 

 TheTon^rr! ■ f'^'"' r^ f"^"^^ y^"°^' ^th incurved ferruginous stamens. 

 branched ofT Rn P^°<^"'=''d at the same time as the leaves, are pendulous, much 



ceedS; W^r- "'■-'"T ^?^^ ^'^'^ ^'^^' ^tJ^ tlie ba^;i lateral branches e^- 

 most c!iZ ™f ,« ^^'^A "^^''^J, . ^^" '=°^ky lenticels on the inflorescence are 

 Cg anS^^de '^described fruit is black, globose, and from 10 to 12 mm. 



Wirson's'nholn^ l'^' "1" ^ -"T-^ "'''^'=' Nos. 581 and 053 of the collection of 

 Wilson s photographs and also ,n his Vegetation of Western China. No. 313. 



