Puate 2641. 
DRACONTOMELUM SINENSE, Step/ 
A NACARDIACE®. 
Dracontomelum sinense, Stapf (sp. nov.); affiinis D. mangifero 
Blume, foliolis haud n sidulis, minoribus, tenuioribus, nervis magis 
curvatis, oe eae panicula minore, minus pilosa, fructibus 
minoribus dive 
rbor 20-30 ped. alta ; ramuli novelli angulosi tenuissime griseo- 
ga ; ; petiolus cum rhachi Sgalnss, tenuissime 
hee a 5-7 poll. longus 3 petioluli 1-2 lin. longi iola ob 
inferiora sepe minora latioraque plerumque inzequalia, majora 
oblonga, acuminata, basin versus asymmetrica 3- 3} poll. longa 10-15 
lin. lata membranacea, costa excepta glabra, opaca, nervis lateralibus 
ut rinque pret ain &-9 a medio vel ites valde curvatis, venis demum 
prominulis. Panicule foliis breviores, cum pedunculo 4-6 poll. longe, 
minutissime ree apres _pedicelli 15-1 lin. longi. Sepala late 
vel Somali apie recurv a, superne cohzerentia, 3 lin. Ton a. Filamenta 
obtuse 3—-5-gonum, depressum, 3—3 poll. dimetiens, 5-loculatum, seepe ob 
loculos 1-2 steriles 4—3- -spermum. D, mangiferum (?), Hemsl. in Journ. 
Linn. Soc. xxiii. 149, non Blume. 
Tropica, Eastern Ast4: Tonkin, in woods in the valley of the 
Lankok, Balansa, 3427 ; near Sontay, Balansa, 3428. Hanoi, in gardens 
Balansa, 4378, 4401, 4527, 4604. South China, commonly cultivated 
on the West River, Ford, 10. 
Mr. Ford’s specimens were accompanied by a label stating re 
“ this is said to yield serge Olives,” and this label was referred 
by Mr. Hemsley l.c. I find, however, that there is a sheet in the 
herbarium, Sg a flowering bra neh, communicated by Ford, of 
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known by the name in South China. There is little difference in the 
panicles, flowers, ag fruits of D. sinense and D. mangiferwm, apart 
from the le ength of the panicles and the size of the fruits, as all the 
Species of this genus resemble each other very much in those points ; 
b e much smaller and thinner — distinguish D. sinense 
sufficiently from D. mangiferum.—O. Sta 
Fig. 1, flower; 2, fruit, copied from a coloured figure in the collection of drawings 
at Kew; 3, stone; * stone cut open; 4, seed; 6,embryo. Ad/ enlarged. 
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