Puate 2712. 
PARVATIA DECORA, Dunn. 
BERBERIDACER. Tribe LARDIZABALEX, 
P. decora, Dunn (sp. nov.); a P. br runoniana, Dene., specie adhuc 
unica, pedunculis sabuniioris fH distincta 
Frutex scandens (Hancock), veg striatis, sinks pallidis. Folia 
trifoliolata, petiolo alato, alis decurrentibus : ; foliola subcoriacea, supra 
glabra, nitentia, infra pra lveabenitla. glauca, marginibus revolutis, 
elliptica, 2—4 poll. longa, igen acuminata ; petioluli laterales 3 poll. 
longi, terminales 1-14, poll. lon ngi. Flores masculi carnei (Hancock) ; 
pedunculi 1-2 ne Tong in fasciculis axillaribus collecti, uniflori vel 
nonnunquam basi ima ramosi, bracteolas paucas minutas ferentes, 
perulati ; feline j ons Sepala 6, ovata, longe acuminata, 6-9 lin. 
longa, stamina excedentia. Petala 6, 1-2 lin. lo onga. Stamina 5-8 lin. 
t , anthera 
ai = 
Cuina : Yunnan, glen near Mengtze at 3,700 feet, and on mountains 
sieve ‘the Red River at the same altitude. W. Hancock, 241, 242. 
Parvatia brunoniana inhabits the mountains of Eastern India from 
Khasia to Tenasserim , extending to the N.E. to Szemao, just over 
the Chinese frontier. The discovery of the above new species at 
Mengtze extends the range of the seme in an easterly direction for a 
distance of about 150 miles.—S. T. Duy 
Fig. 1, a male flower from which the sepals have been removed ; 2, a section of the 
same showing the rudimentary pistil. Both enk arged, 
