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ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW. 



BULLETIN 



OF 



MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. 



No. 



[1915 



XLL— SOME NEW SPECIES FROM BURMA. 



J. H. LACE, 



During the last five years a considerable numher of new species 

 of plants from Burma have been described and published in the 

 Kew Bulletin or in the Kecords of the Botanical Survey of India, 

 the majority of which were found in Maymyo and its neighbour- 

 hood or in the Southern Shan States, whilst others came chiefly 

 from the hill regions of the Ruby Mines and Bhamo Di&tricts. 

 Although shrubs^ climbers and herbaceous plants predominate 



amongst the new species, many trees^ some of great size, are also 

 included, for instance, Manglietia Hookerij Cubitt & Smith, 

 Elaeocarpus Rohertsonii^ Gamble, ParanepheliuTn liystrixy 

 W- W. Smith, Meliosma Maiinii, Lace, Dalbergia maymycnsis^ 

 Craib,, Acacia Myaingiiy Lace, Pyrus kachinensis , W. AV. Smith, 

 Lagerstroemia Collettii, Craib, Homalium hliamoense, Cubitt 

 & Smith, Adina indivisay Lace, Diospyros glfnidulosuj Lace, 

 Styrax Laceiy W. W. Smith, Stereospennuw^ grandiflorum, Cubitt 

 & Smith, Beilschmedia EoberUonii, Gamble, all from Upper 

 Burma, while from Lower Burma may be mentioned Rhus amher- 

 stensis, W. W* Smith, Millettia uttlis, Dunn, Cordia glohifera, 

 W. W. Smith and Wtghtia Lacei, Craib. In the same period 

 other additions have been made to the flora of Burma by the col- 

 lection of species previously recorded only from neighbouring 

 countries, e.g., Miliusa Thoreliiy i'inet & Gagnep., Sterculiu 

 Principis, Gagnep-, Chailletia gelonioides, Hook, f., Celastrus 

 Hoolceriy Prain, Acer oblonguniy Wall., Meliosma Thomsonii, 

 King ex Brandis, Dracontomelum mangiferum, BL, Mucuna 

 sempervirensy HemsL, Pueraria alopecuroides, Craib, Dalbergia 

 Kerrii, Craib, Saraca caulifioray Baker, Rubus lucenSy Focke, 

 Rubus yuiianicusy Kuntze, Rosa sericea, Liudl., Distylium 

 indicum, ■ Benth., Viburnum erubescens, Wnll., Viburnum 

 inopinatum, Craib, Hymenodictyon flaccidum, Wnll., Gardenia 

 sootepensisy Hutch., Rhododendron indicuniy Sweet, R. micrn- 

 phytum, Franch., R. oxyphyllum, Franch., Styrax grandiflorum. 

 Griff., S. VeitcMorum, Franch., Fraxinus Gnfflthii, Clarke, 

 Strychnos Thorelii, Pierre, Eiidiandra firma^ Nees, Cleistanihus 

 chartaceusy MuelL-Arg., Glochidion Kerrii, Craib, Sauropus 



(4108.) Wt. 153-601. 1,125. 11/15. J. T. & S. G. 14. 



