i2 DIAGNOSES SPECIERUM NOVARUM. 
aculei numerosi saepe robusti. Folia 30 cm. vel ultra diametro, 
petiolo 9-15 cm. longo ferrugineo-tomentello suffulta, alte 
palmato-lobata, basi cordatula, in sicco firme papyracea, primo 
utrinque tomento albido vel saepius ferrugineo stellato induta, 
mox glabra vel glabrescentia ; pars integra circ. I cm. alta ; 
lobi circ. 9, oblongi, ad 18 cm. longi, ad 4 mm. lati, apice longius- 
cule acuminati, basi multo excisi pseudo-petiolulos formantes, 
margine subspinoso-serrulati; nervi subtus prominuli; stipu- 
larum apices liberi circ. 1 cm. longi subspinescentes. Inflores- 
centia elongata rigida angusta ; rhachis ad 35 cm. longa, cras- 
sissima primo tomentella mox glabrescens unde fere angulo recto 
oriuntur pedunculi crassi 3-5 cm. longi pauciramosi vel simplices 
bracteis ovatis ornati; pedicelli vix 1 cm. longi dense ferrugineo- 
tomentelli; umbellae multiflorae ad 3 cm. diametro. Calycis 
dentes bene evoluti circ. 1 mm. longi acuti tomentelli; petala 
5, 3-5 mm. longa, triangulari-ovata, extra albido-tomentella 
viridi-lutea. Ovarium primo albido- vel ferrugineo-tomentellum, 
obconicum, circ. 4 mm. longum, 2-3-loculare ; discus planus 
paululo ultra calycis marginem protrusus medio depressus, unde 
stylus simplex vix 2 mm. longus. 
‘China -——Ma-chang-Kat Valley, N. of Tengyueh, Yunnan. 
Lat. 25° 20’ N. Alt. 6000 ft. Spinous shrub of 20-30 ft. 
Flowers greenish-yellow. In thickets. Feb. 1913.” G. Forrest. 
No. 9671. 
Brassaiopsis nabnipes; G. Forrest. Sp. nov. 
Species valde affinis B. trevisioidi, W. W. Sm. infra de- 
scriptae a qua foliolorum lobis oblongo-ellipticis pseudo-petio- 
lulatis (ut saepe in Tvevesia) inter alia differt. 
Frutex 6-9 m. altus ramis crassis aculeatis. Folia Yinlifioka) 
30-35 cm. diametro, petiolo 12-25 cm. longo primum ferrugineo- 
tomentello nonnunquam praesertim ad apicem aculeato praedita, 
alte palmato-lobata, basi cordata, in sicco submembranacea, 
supra aculeolis sparsis notata atque hic illic parce puberula, 
infra initio dense ferrugineo-tomentella, mox glabrescentia ; 
pars integra 5-7 cm. alta, orbicularis margine integro; lobi 
8-11, oblongo-elliptici, vulgo 10-15 cm. longi, 5-7.5 cm. lati, 
apice rotundati saepe abrupte acuminati, basi rotundati ad 
costulam excisi, margine subspinuloso-serrulati ; nervi subtus 
aliquatenus prominuli; stipularum apices liberi subulato- 
lanceolati. Inflorescentiae quoad formam et magnitudinem 
cum eis B. trevesioidis quadrant ; pedicelli ferrugineo-puberuli ; 
flores 5-meri; calycis dentes brevissimi acuti ; petala extra 
parce tomentella; ovarium vulgo 2-loculare, nonnunquam 
Sloculare, stylo simplici vix 2 mm. longo coronatum 
“ China :—Shweli Valley, Yunnan. Lat. 25° N. Alt. 5000 
