ON TWO DIPTEEOCAEPACE^. 307 



A KEW CHINESE SYMPLOCOS. 

 By H. E. Hance, Ph.D. 



Stmplocos {Hopea) urceolams, sp. nov. ; arborea, ramulis obscure 

 angulatis purpureo-brunneis, innovationibus flavidis, foliis chartaceis 

 glaberrimis elliptico-lanceolatis basi acutis apice in acumen integer- 

 rimum glanduloso-mucronatum productis margine leviter revoluto 

 obscure glanduloso-crenato-denticulatis utrinque tenuiter elevato- 

 reticulars 2-2^- poll, longis 9-11 lin. latis petiolo 3-lineali tenui, 

 racemis axillaribus simplicibus erectis l-lf- poll, longis 6-12 floris 

 rachi tomentella floribus breviter pedicellatis superioribus subsessilibus, 

 fructibus 3 lin. longis urceolato-campanulatis glabris lucidis laciniis 

 calycinis ovato-triangulatis acutis longitudinaliter nervulosis inflexis 

 coronatis. 



In prov. Cantonensi, secus fl. West River, Maio 1875, fructifi- 

 cantem detexit Rev. J. Lamont. (Herb, propr., n. 19309.) 



A proxime affini 8. Iceta, Thw. ! foliorum constantia, baccarum 

 calycisque loborum forma distincta. S. myrtacea, S. & Z. ! discedit 

 foliis coriaceis, crenis magis conspicuis acumineque subito falcato 

 prseditis, venarumque rete baud manifesto, racemis paucifloris corym- 

 bosis, fructibusque ellipticis. 



The handsome S.ferruginea, Roxb., of which the still handsomer 

 S. coroibata, Thw. ! is a near ally, was gathered by me in November, 

 1866, on the southern coast of Kwang tung. 



I am glad to be able to state that all doubt as to the extremely 

 beautiful S. decora, described by me two years since,* being a native 

 of Hongkong has been dispelled, Mr. Ford having himself, on the 4th 

 of March, 1876, met with two shrubs of it, one four feet high, on the 

 north-east side of Victoria Peak, about 100 yards below the signal 



ON TWO BIPTEROCARPACEM. 



By H. F. Hance, Ph.D. 



Dkyobalanops Schefferi, sp. nov. — Ramulis ultimis petiolisque 

 tomento stellate brevi ferrugineo obsitis, foliis rigide chartaceis 

 basi cuneatis apice breviter obtuse acuminatis 2f-6 poll, longis 14-24 

 lin. latis petiolo 3-4 lineali utrinque lucidulis et glaberrimis costa 

 subtus prominente costulisque mediocribus ad utrumque latus 10-14 

 arcuato-curvatis in marginem abeuntibus venalarum rete subtili, 

 floribus ad basin ramulorum in racemes breves 3-4 floros dispositis, 

 calycis fructiferi tubo longitudinaliter striato-sulcato imam capsulae 

 basin tantum cingente laciniis auctis basi revolutis deorsumque gibbose 

 productis tubum calycinum abscondentibus sursum subconniventibus 

 lineari-oblongis obtusissimis coriaceis flavidis vernicosis trinerviis 



* Trimen, .Tourn. Bot., 1874,369. 



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