Tap. 8357. 
MELIOSMA cUNEIFOLIA. 
Western China. 
SABIACEAE, 
Me tiosma, Blume; Benth. e¢ Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 414. 
Meliosma cuneifolia, Franch, in Nouv. Archiv. Mus. Paris, ser. ii. vol. viii. 
p. 211; affinis M. myrianthae, Sieb. et Zuce. et M. dilleniaefoliue, Wall.; ab 
illa foliis basi angustatis cuneatis, ab hac foliis minoribus angustioribus 
costa nervisque exceptis utrinque glabris facile distinguitur. 
Arbor vel frutex, cortice glabro. Folia anguste obovato-cuneata, e basi longe 
attenuata, apice acuta interdum abrupte et breviter acuminata, 6-18 cm. 
longa, 1-5-7 cm. lata, repando-denticulata vel fere dentata, chariacea, 
utrinque glabra costa nervisque puberulis exceptis et praeterea ad axillas 
nervorum Jateralium barbata, nervis lateralibus numerosis utrinque 20-25 
parallelis in foliis maturatis circiter 5 mm. distantibus supra paullo 
immersis subtus prominentibus, venis inconspicuis; petioli ad ¥ cm. longi, 
supra canaliculati, parce puberuli. Paniculu pyramidalis, ampla, multi- 
flora, circiter 20 cm. longa et lata; rhachis leviter angulata, puberula, 
ramis primariis patentibus vel subpendulis ad 10 em. longis, ramis 
secundariis florentibus ad 1°5 em. longis; pedicelli circiter 2 mm. longi, 
dense puberuli; bracteolae minimae, ovato-deltoideae, ciliolatae, prr- 
sistentes. lores viridi-flavi, 6 mm. diametro. Sepala 5, ovata vel ovato- 
rotundata, coriacea, ciliolata, extus concava, glabra, petalis triplo minora. 
Petula 5, valde inaequalia; 3 exteriora orbicularia, subcoriacea, 3 mm. 
lata, glabra, str'ata; 2 interiora parva, membranacea, profunde biloba. 
Stamina 5, petalis opposita, inaequalia, basi cum petalis cohaerentia, 
2 majora perfecta, 3 ananthera ante petala majora, tilamentis planis 
glabris; antherac magnae, globosae. Discus cupularis, inaequaliter lobatus 
vel dentatus, carnosus. OUvarium ellipsoideum, glabrum vel papillosum 
vel pubescens; stylus conicus, glaber. Fructus subglobosus integer vel 
bilobus, 3-5 mm, diametro.—J. HutcHinson. 
The handsome species here figured was first discovered 
by the Abbé David in June, 1869, in the mountains of 
Moupine. Since then it has been met with on Mount Omi 
in Szechuan by the Rev. E. Faber, in the Patung district 
of Hupeh by Mr, A. Henry, and in valleys on the eastern 
flank of the Li-Kiang range in North-western Yunnan by 
Mr. G. Forrest. It was also found again on Mount Omi 
by Mr. E. H. Wilson when collecting on behalf of Messrs. 
J. Veitch & Sons, in whose nursery at Coombe Wood 
Fesruary, 1911. 
