1924) WILSON, A NEW SPECIES OF REEVESIA 233 



Brandisia Hancei Hooker f., Fl. Brit. Ind. iv. 257 (1885). 



Brandisia discolor Hance in Jour. Linn. Soc. xvm. 299 (1880).— Non Hooker 

 f . & Thomson. 



Stellate-tomentose shrub 1.5 m. high, stem glabrous or scaberulous; 

 branchlets usually densely rusty, woolly-tomentose, terete. Leaves op- 

 posite, ovate-lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, acute, cordate at base, sub- 

 entire or obsoletely serrate, with deciduous rusty tomentum when young 

 and finally glabrous and with impressed veins above, densely rusty to- 

 mentose and with prominent veins beneath, thickly coriaceous, up to 5 cm. 

 long and 2.5 cm. broad; petiole densely rusty-tomentose, about 5 mm. 

 long. Flowers axillary, solitary or 2 together; peduncles 5-6 mm. long, 

 pedicels up to 8 mm. long, both densely tomentose as well as the outside 

 of the calyx; calyx broad-campanulate, 12 mm. long, 5-dentate, teeth 

 broad, rounded-triangular, cuspidate, with strong midrib and 2 lateral 

 veins, villosulose inside; corolla 2.5 cm. long, 12 mm. broad, tubular- 

 campanulate, throat slightly swollen under the upper lip, tomentulose 

 outside and inside, upper lip straight, subentire, 6 mm. long, lower lip 

 shortly 3-lobed; stamens 4, didynamous, included; anthers rounded-reni- 

 form, attached at the back, covered with a long coarse beard in front; 

 style very long, slightly dilated at the apex; stigma punctate. Capsule 

 ovoid-globose, tomentose, 1 cm. in diameter, acute at the apex, subtended 

 by the persistent calyx. 



Szechuan, Yunnan. 



As there was never published a good and detailed description of this 

 species since Hooker separated it from B. discolor, I take this opportunity 

 to remedy the deficiency. 



Tricalysia mollissima, comb, no v. 



Diplospora mollissima Hutchinson in Sargent, PI. Wilson, m. 401 (1917). 



In reducing Diplospora De Candolle to a section of Tricalysia Richard, 

 it is necessary to make this combination. 

 Arnold Arboretum, 



October, 1924. 



A NEW SPECIES OF REEVESIA 



Ernest H. Wilson 

 Reevesia sinica, sp. nov. 



Reevesia Wallichii Dunn in Jour. Linn. Soc. xxxix. 484 (1911).— Non R. 



Brown. 

 Reevesia pubescens Rehder & Wilson in Sargent, PI. Wilson, n. 376 (1915) 



Non Masters. 



Arbor 20-metralis; truncus circuitu 1.5 m., cortice saturate cinereo, 

 firmo, leviter rimoso; ramuli hornotini tomento fulvo stellato dense obtecti, 

 demum glabrescentes et rubro-purpurei. Folia petiolata, coriacea, oblonga 



