Tabula 2837. 



ALTINGIA GRACILIPES, Hemsh 



Hamamelidaceae. 



A.gracilipes, HemsL {sp, noi\) ; a speciebus adhuc descriptis differt 

 foliis minoribus tei:iiubus iiitegris gracilitcr petiolatis. 



Arbor circiter 20 m. alta, praeter inflorescentiam omnino glabra 

 vel cito glabrescens. Fami floriferi rigidi, recti, lenticellis minutis 

 parce instructi, cinerei, primiun obscure puberuli. Folia ad rainoruni 

 apices confertaj alterna, petiolata, tenuia, diartacea, eleganter laii- 

 ceolata, absque petiolo 5-7 cm. longa, 15-2 cm. lata, caudato-acu- 

 minata, integerrima, glaberrima ; petioli gracillimi, 1-2*5 cm. longi ; 

 stipidae non visac. Peduncidi florum femineorum pseudotcrminales, 

 erecti, 3-4 cm. lougi, nudi, monocephali. Amenta mascula carent. 

 Cafitula feminca pauciflora, circiter 15 cm. diamctro ; sepala atque 

 petola nulla ; ovaria inter se arete confluentia, apice puberula, bilo- 

 cnlaria, stylis 2 ligulatis obtusis recurvis ; ovula in quoque loculo 

 numerosa. Fructtis ignotus. 



China : Fokien, S. T. Dunn, lib. Hongh 1119, 



There are fruiting specimens in the Kew Herbarium of a large- 

 leaved species of Altingia {A, Henry, 10395) from Mengtze, Yunnan, 

 in forests at an altitude of 1,800 metres ; and young foliage and detached 

 male inflorescences [A, Ilennj, 11082) from the same locality or district. 

 They may belong to the same species, though the former is described 



as a tree 3 to 6 metres high, and the latter as an enormous tree as 

 much as 3*5 metres in diameter. — W. Bottixg Hemsley. 



Fig. 1, a female flower and two staminofHa ; 2, a orofis-soctinn of X\w conRoliilatod 

 of Kix flowor.s ; 3. lojigitudina! sortion lliroimh two (»viui(^s, AH ntlavjal. 



