1924] H. H. HU, NOTES ON CHINESE LIGNEOUS PLANTS 231 



semina 8 in quoque loculo, biseriata, adscendentia et imbricata, alis ad 

 12 mm. longis exclusis 4-5 mm. longa. 



Affinis E. spectabili Planch., sed differt floribus minoribus, valvis capsulae 

 acutis, foliis crenato-dentatis et subtus dense fulvide stellato-tomentosis. 



Yunnan: Szemao, A. Henry, nos. 11873 (type), 12506, 12506 A and 

 12506 B. 



Eriolaena glabrescens, sp. nov. 



Frutex 3 m. altus; ramuli plus minusve stellato-pubescentes. Folia 

 orbiculari-ovata, 7-11 cm. longa et 6.5-10 cm. lata, acuta vel breviter 

 acuminata, basi truncata vel late cordata, crenato-serrata, supra sparse, ad 

 venas subtus densius stellato-pubescentia, demum utrinque glabrescentia, 

 petioli 2-3 cm. longi; inflorescentia corymbosa, multiflora, rufo-stellato- 

 tomentosa; bracteolae spathulato-ligulatae, profunde pinnatifidae, circiter 

 1.5 cm. longae, rufo-stellato-tomentosae; alabastra conico-oblonga, apicu- 

 lata, flavido-alba; filamenta tubi staminalis et antherae breviora quam in 

 specie precedente; stylus villosus, lobis stigmatis 8 recurvis. Fructus 

 ignotus. 



Affinis E. Candollei Wall., sed differt foliis utrinque glabrescentibus venis 

 rufis stellato-pubescentibus exceptis, juvenilibus etiam stellato-pubescen- 

 tibus tantum in venis et venulis. 



Yunnan: Szemao, southern mountains, A. Henry, no. 12343 (type). 



Pterospermum Levinei Merrill in Philipp. Jour. Sci. xin. 125 (1918). 



Tree about 13 m. high; the young parts densely rusty to whitish tomen- 

 tose; branches terete, glabrous, slender. Leaves oblong to obcuneate, 

 acuminate to short-cuspidate, subcoriaceous, entire, base slightly in- 

 equilateral and truncate to obcordate, brownish-olive, shining and glabrous 

 above, densely tomentose beneath, 8-14 cm. long and 4-5.5 cm. broad; 

 petiole about 8 mm. long; stipules ovate to oblong-ovate, entire, inequi- 

 lateral, acute to acuminate, minutely white-tomentose on both surfaces, 

 about 5 mm. long, deciduous. Flowers axillary, solitary or 2-3 together; 

 peduncle stoutish, 5-10 mm. long, densely tomentose, bracteoles 2, 

 laciniate, lobes subulate, tomentose, persistent; pedicels about 5 mm. 

 long; calyx deeply divided, to 2.5 cm. long, segments narrow spathulate, 

 obtusish, tomentose outside, appressed sericeous- villose inside, 2 cm. long, 

 3 mm. broad; petals red, spatulate, as long as the calyx-segments and 

 slightly broader; stamens % as long as the rough and stellate-pilose 

 rudimentary stamens, 1 cm. long; anthers linear, 5 mm. long; ovary ovoid, 

 densely hirtellate. Fruit ellipsoid to oblong-ellipsoid, terete, apex minutely 

 and shortly acuminate, base stipitate, densely and minutely rusty stellate- 

 tomentose, 4.5-5 cm. long; stipe about 8 mm. long; seeds with wings about 

 2.5 cm. long, 6-7 mm. broad. 



KWANGTUNG, HAINAN. 



In the herbarium of the Arnold Arboretum there is a flowering specimen 



