Puiate 2787. 
EUPTELEA DAVIDIANA, Baill. 
TROCHODENDRACES,. 
E, davidiana, Baill. Adansonia, vol. xi. (875) B 305. 
ovata, interdum lanceolata vel fere orbicularia, maxima cum peeo? 
semipedalia sed in eodem ramo magnitudine vere! (cape 1-5 poll.) 
sepius longe acuteque acuminata, "bait cuneata, margine irregulariter 
calloso-serrata, venis primariis lateralibus numerosis conspicuis in 
dentes excurrentibus. Flores foliis cozetanei vel precociores, breviter 
u 
minum numerus variabilis—7—15 (10-20, fide H. Baillon) seepius cir- 
citer 12; ty Sage capillaria, 2—5 lin. longa, quam anther nunc breviora 
lon 
nunc ra; anthere lineares, biloculares, rimis longitudinalibus 
dehiscen nite, decum weekren’ connectivo apice in mucronem “ultra loculos 
producto, Pollen globosu weve, 25-30 diametro. Carpella rudi- 
mentaria staminibus isomera ve pauciora, cassa vel ovula imperfecta 
+ nani Flores feminei infra ju xtaque folia —— fasciculata 
lati, padisallis 4-6 lin. lon aminodia near “Ca arpella circiter 
6- 12, subuniseriata, ans gracilite rque stipitata, parte ovulifera 
obliqua, stigmate sessili, matura circiter semipolicaria, seperniieo 
apice ala tenui su ubreniformi ventre ala angusta curvata orn: ta, 1-3- 
sperma. Semina ab angulo interiori net ovoidea, Meret ai ‘testa 
nitida. Embryo minutus, hilo pro —E. pleiosperma, Solereder 
in Ber. Deutsch. Bot. Gesellsch. oe XVil. (1899), p- 399, vix Hook. 
f. et Thoms. in Journ. Linn. Soe. vol. vii. p. 240, t. 2. Z. ’ Franchetii, 
Van Tiegh. in Morot, Journ. de Bot. vol. xiv. (1906), p 272. E. Delavayi 
Van Tiegh. loc. cit. p. 273. Non Eucommia ulm iste Oliv., vide Hook. 
Tc. Pl. ¢ ‘2361, et Harms in Engler & Prantl Natiirl. Pflanzenf. , Nachtriige 
zum iL.-iv, p "159. 
Cina: Szechuen: Moupin, A. David; Chengkou, cee 1120; 
chiefly near Tachienlu, A. E. Pratt ; Mount Omei at 2 ,500 ft., #. Faber 
129 ; South Wushan, ‘A. Henry, 7232, | Yunnan, Delavay, 7349 ; 
forests north of Me ngtze, at 7,000 ft., A. Henry, 107 Hupeh : 
Hsingshan and Fang, A. Henry, 6455, ési8 Ww. Banas, EE. iW Felton, 
1018. 
I have described this species of Zuptelea, as I understand it, in con- 
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