216 DIAGNOSES SPECIERUM NOVARUM. 
uS\ Michelia Lacei, W. W. Sm. Sp. nov. 
Species fructu magno circ. 4 cm. longo bene notata; M. 
mantpurenst, Watt affinis. ; 
Arbor mediocris. Rami crassi glabri lenticellis suborbicu- 
laribus ornati. Folia petiolo 2-2.5 cm. longo glabro supra 
canaliculato suffulta ; lamina 14-19 cm. longa, 6.5—8 cm. lata, 
oblongo-elliptica, apice ambitu subrotundata breviter acutata, 
basi late cuneata vel subrotundata, in sicco tenuiter coriacea, 
textura M. manipurensis ei similis, maturitate utrinque glabra, 
nervis lateralibus 12-15 paribus infra marginem arcuatis cum 
nervulis conspicuo reticulatis. Flores non visi. Pedunculus 
crassus circ. 1.5 cm. longus ; regio cicatricum staminalium circ. 
1.5 cm. longa ; gynophorum in fructu ad 3 cm. longum glabrum. 
Carpella matura in specimine nostro 12, pro genere permagna, 
adicm. stipitata ; circ. 4cm. longa, 2—2.5 cm. lata, lignosissima, 
muro 5-8 mm. lato, extra glabra lenticellis orbicularibus bene 
conspersa ; semina in quoque carpello plerumque sex matura, 
circ. 7 mm. longa, 5 mm. lata, rubra. 
‘* Upper Burma :—Thondaung to Aui Sakan, near Maymyo ; 
alt. 3000 ft. Aug.1912.” J. H. Lace. No. 5928. 
Closely allied to Michelia manipurensis, Watt, this species 
has a remarkably large fruit, the individual carpels containing 
six ripe seeds and evidence that the ovules were at least twelve 
in number. 
yyw? Mucuna calophylla, W. W. Sm. Sp. nov. 
Species affinis M. montanae, Diels a qua foliolis longe acumi- 
natis subtus pulchre et dense sericeis facile distinguenda est. 
Planta debilis scandens ad 1 m. alta. Caules gracillimi 
primo setis fulvidis conspersi, mox glabri vel subglabri. Folia 
petiolo 4~7.5 cm. longo setulis consperso glabrescente suffulta ; 
petioluli laterales circ. 5 mm. longi dense fulvido- vel ferrugineo- 
setosi; petiolulus intermedius ad 2 cm. longus; foliola sub- 
aequalia plerumque circ. 7 cm. longa, circ. 3 cm. lata, supra 
atroviridia setis fulvidis vel subferrugineis appressis primo 
dense tandem sparsim induta, infra dense molliterque sericeo- 
tomentosa, intermedium subsymmetricum late lanceolatum 
apice caudato-acuminatum, basi rotundatum, lateralia basi 
valde asymmetrica ceteroquin intermedio subsimilia ; nervi 3-4 
-paria. Flores in speciminibus sejuncti. Calyx circ. 12 mm. 
longus fere ad medium fissus, cano-tomentosus atque ferrugineo- 
setosulus ; lobi superi lanceolati 5-6 mm. longi, inferus late 
triangularis. Corolla atro-kermesina; vexillum suborbiculare 
circ. 2 cm. longum, 1.8 cm. latum ; alae circ. 2.8 cm. longae, 
basi ciliatae ; carina circ. 3.5cm.longa. Fructus deest. 
