1924] Merrill: New Species of Plants from Indo-China 429 



A species manifestly closely allied to Sijmplocos aclenopus Hance 

 of southern China, differing in its much smaller leaves, fewer petiolar 

 glands, shorter petioles, the nerves conspicuously impressed on the 

 upper surface, etc. 



Symplocos Petelotii Merr. sp. nov. § Bobua, Lodhra 



Arbor parva, ramis teretibus, glabris, castaneo-purpureis, ramulis 

 junioribus perspicue f errugineo-pubescentibus ; f oliis coriaceis, ellip- 

 ticis, glabris vel subtus ad costa leviter ciliatis, integris vel obscurissime 

 glanduloso-crenulatis, tlavido-olivaceis, nitidis, utrinque late rotun- 

 datis, 5 ad 8 cm. longis, 3 ad 4.5 cm. latis, costa supra leviter impressa, 

 nervis utrinque 5 ad 7, perspicuis, supra planis, subtus prominentibus, 

 anastomosantibus; petiolo glabro, 5 ad 7 mm. longo; inflorescentiis 

 axillaribus, ferrugineo-pubescentibus, stricte racemosis, solitariis, 15- 

 ad 20-floris, 4 ad 6 cm. longis ; floribus luteis, circiter 1.5 cm. diametro, 

 pedicellis 3 mm. longis, apice bibracteolatis, bracteolis ovatis, acutis, 

 pubescentibus, 2.5mm. longis; calycis circiter 5.5 mm. diametro, tubo 

 2 mm. longo, glabro, lobis 5, inaequalibus, elliptico-ovatis, rotundatis, 

 exterioribus distincte pubescentibus, interioribus subglabris ; petalis 5, 

 liberis, glabris, ellipticis, rotundatis, 6 ad 6.5 mm. longis, 4 mm. latis ; 

 staminibus oo, filamentis liberis, glabris, 3 ad mm. longis; ovario 

 3-loculare ; stylis glabris, 4 mm. longis. 



Indo-China, Cho-Ganh, Dr. A. Petelot 765, November, 1921, in 

 argillaceo-calcareous soil. 



A species well characterized by its coriaceous, elliptic, entire, 

 rounded leaves ; by being glabrous or nearly so except for the younger 

 branchlets and inflorescences; and by its bibracteolate not tribracteo- 

 late flowers. Tt probably belongs in the group Avith Sijmplocos elegans 

 Thwaites. 



OLEACEAE 



Jasminum longisepalum Merr. sp. nov. 



Frutex scandens ramulis junioribus puberulis sepalisque dense 

 cinereo-pubescentibus exceptis glaber ; ramis teretibus. laevis, olivaceis 

 vel purpureis, ramulis circiter 2 mm. diametro ; f oliis simplicibus, 

 ovatis ad oblongo-ovatis, chartaceis ad subcoriaceis, 3 ad 8 cm. longis, 

 2 ad 4 cm. latis, olivaceis, nitidis, glaberrimis, acute acuminatis, basi 

 rotundatis, 5-plinerviis, nervis tenuibus, distinctis, nervis lateralibus 

 paucis; petiolo 1 ad 1.5 cm. longo; inflorescentiis terminalibus axillar- 

 ibusque, pedunculatis, cinereo-pubescentibus, floribus numerosis, con- 

 fertis, plerumque in triadibus dispositis, pedicellatis, calycis tubo 2 

 ad 3 mm. longo, lobis plerumque 7, linearis. 1.5 ad 3 cm. longis, dense 

 cinereo-pubescentibus; corolla glabra, tubo 2.5cm. longo, lobis pler- 

 umque 7, oblongo-ovatis, acute acuminatis, circiter 1 cm. longis; 

 antheris oblongis, 5.5 mm. longis. 



Indo-China, Cho-Ganh, Dr. A. Petelot 773, 973 (type), July. 1923. 



On limestone hills. 



