ao 
So \, 
21, 5 Merrill: The Flora of Southeastern China 503 
An entirely glabrous shrub, the branches terete, reddish 
brown, the branchlets narrowly winged. Leaves numerous, 
subcoriaceous, pale olivaceous, somewhat shining, crowded, lan- 
ceolate, 2.5 to 5 cm long, 5 to 8 mm wide, base acute, apex ob- 
tusely acuminate, margins distinctly crenate-serrate, the basal 
one-fourth entire; nerves 10 to 12 on each side of the midrib, 
slightly impressed on the upper surface, projecting on the lower 
surface, slender, distinct; petioles 1 mm long or less. Flowers 
axillary, solitary or in pairs. Sepals coriaceous, elliptic, rounded 
or retuse, 2.5 mm long, the pedicels in fruit 4 to 5 mm long. 
Fruit oblong-ovoid, 5 to 6 mm long, about 4 mm in diameter, 
apiculate-acuminate by the persistent style. 
Kwangtung Province, Tung Sing, K. K. Ts’oong 1940, June 
28, 1918, with the local name lui hai ngau. 
A very characteristic species readily recognized by its being 
entirely glabrous and by its narrow, crowded leaves, narrowly 
winged branchlets, comparatively long pedicels, and unusually 
large, oblong-ovoid fruits. 
DIPTEROCARPACEAE 
SHOREA Roxburgh 
SHOREA CHINENSIS sp. nov. 
Arbor, petalis exceptis glabra, ramis ramulisque teretibus, te- 
nuibus; foliis chartaceis, lanceolatis, 9 ad 13 cm longis, tenuiter 
acuminatis, basi acutis, nervis utrinque 7 ad 9, perspicuis; inflo- 
rescentiis axillaribus, solitariis, paucifloris, usque ad 5 cm longis, 
ebracteatis; sepalis orbicularibus ad oblongis, glabris, obtusis, 
2.5 ad 3 mm longis, corollae lobis oblongo-ellipticis, partibus 
exterioribus pubescentibus, 8 mm longis; staminibus 15, glabris, 
antheris late ellipsoideis, connectivo glabro, 1.5 ad 1.7 mm longo, 
filiforme. 
A tree, entirely glabrous except the exposed parts of the 
petals. Branches and branchlets terete, slender, dark reddish 
brown when dry, the ultimate branchlets about 1 mm in diam- 
eter. Leaves chartaceous, lanceolate, 9 to 13 cm long, 2 to 
3.5 cm wide, base acute, apex slenderly acuminate; lateral nerves 
7 to 9 on each side of the midrib, prominent on the lower surface, 
ascending, the primary reticulations slender, subparallel; pe- 
tioles 8 to 12 mm long. Inflorescences axillary, solitary, few- 
flowered, up to 5 cm long, the primary branches few, 1 cm long 
or less, each branch bearing 3 or 4 flowers, the bracteoles none 
or minute and very early deciduous. Calyx tube short, the lobes 
unequal, orbicular to oblong, obtuse to rounded, glabrous, 2.5 to 
