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SCHIMA Reinwardt 

 SCHIMA CON FERTI FLORA sp. nov. 



^ Arbor (vel interdum frutex, 1 ad 3 m altus) usque ad 10 m 



alta, novellis floribusque exceptis glabra; foliis coriaceis, in sic- 

 citate brunneis ad brunneo-olivaceis, oblongo-ovatis ad oblongo- 

 ellipticis, usque ad 9 cm longis, breviter obtuseque acuminatis, 

 basi acutis, margine distincte crenato-serratis, nervis utrinque 

 8 ad 10, tenuibus; floribus numerosis, axillaribus et ad apicem 

 ramulorum dense subracemoso-confertis, breviter pedunculatis ; 

 sepalis orbicularibus, extus glabris, margine perspicue ciliatis; 

 fructibus depresso-globosis, circiter 1.2 cm diametro, breviter 

 crasseque pedunculatis. 



A tree attaining a height of 10 m, or when growing on exposed 

 slopes a shrub 1 to 3 m high, glabrous except the flowers and 

 the growing tips of the branchlets. Branches dark-brown, 

 rugose, rather stout, terete, the terminal bud-scales densely ap- 

 pressed-pubescent with pale shining hairs. Leaves numerous, 

 crowded, thickly coriaceous, oblong-ovate to oblong-elliptic, 4.5 

 to 9 cm long, 2 to 3.3 cm wide, base acute, apex shortly and 

 obtusely acuminate, margins distinctly crenate-serrate, when dry 

 brown to brownish-olivaceous, shining; lateral nerves slender, 

 not prominent, 8 to 10 on each side of the midrib, anastomosing, 

 the reticulations indistinct; petioles 1 to 1.5 cm long. Flowers 

 numerous, white, in the uppermost axils and racemosely crowded 

 at the tips of the branchlets, about 3 cm in diameter, their pedi- 

 cels glabrous, about 1 cm long, stout, brown when dry. Sepals 

 suborbicular, rounded, coriaceous, about 5 mm in diameter, gla- 

 brous externally, internally densely appressed-pubescent, the 

 margins densely and prominently ciliate with pale hairs. Petals 

 obovate, glabrous except the sparingly ciliate margins. Ovary 

 ovoid, densely pubescent at the base, glabrous above ; style stout, 

 about 7 mm long. Fruit globose or depressed-globose, woody, 

 about 1.2 cm in diameter, brown when dry, sparingly appressed- 

 pubescent, ultimately glabrous, at first splitting into two or three 

 valves, ultimately into five, the persistent sepals very coriaceous, 

 glabrous, the pedicels stout, about 1 cm long, the mature fruits 

 in the axils of fallen leaves; seeds somewhat reniform, rounded 

 at both ends, about 7 mm long and 4.5 mm wide, somewhat rugose. 



Kwangtung Province, Loh Fau Mountain (Lofaushan), Merrill 10690 

 (type), August 16, 1917, on open exposed ridges, altitude 950 meters, 

 Merrill 11052, August 11, 1917, in damp forested ravines, altitude about 

 900 meters, Merrill 10150 and Levine 601, 1513, October 28, 1916, August 

 10, 1917, in fruit, and in flower, on open slopes, altitude about 900 meters. 



