234 SMITH—NOTES ON CERTAIN ASIATIC STYRACACEAE. 
culata, in sicco tenuiter papyracea, supra opaco-viridis glabra, 
infra vix pallidior, glabra nisi ad axillas nervorum sparsim 
tomentellas, nervis utrinsecus 7—9-paribus infra paulo eminen- 
tibus. Inflorescentiae paniculatae, terminales atque axillares, 
6-10 cm. longae, multiflorae; axes dense incano-stellato- 
tomentosi; bracteae lineares mox caducae. Calyx cupuli- 
formis circ. 2 mm. longus, fere ad medium in lobos triangulares 
subacutos fissus dense adpresso-incano-tomentosus. Corolla 
flavida 5-partita, tubo fere nullo, lobis in aestivatione imbricatis, 
8-g mm. longis, 2.5 mm. latis, anguste oblongis, subobtusis, 
Gtrinque flavescenti-stellato-tomentellis. Stamina to, fila- 
mentis fere liberis 3 mm. longis dense stellato-pilosis, antheris 
circ. 2 mm. longis, connectivo pilosulo apice producto biaristato. 
Ovarium ovoideum superum 3- -loculare multiovulatum tomen- 
tosum; stylus 7-8 mm. longus cylindricus crassus undique 
pilosulus. Fructus circ. 4 mm. longus ovoideus resupinatus 
calyce paulo aucto fere omnino inclusus. 
“ Western China :—In thickets in ravines on the western 
flank of the Shweli-Salween divide, Yunnan. Lat. 25° 40’ N. 
Alt. gooo ft. Shrub of 20-30 ft. Flowers fragrant, creamy- 
yellow. May to1g.’’ G. Forrest. No. 18,020. 
“‘ N’ Maikha-Salween divide, at Ho-tou, Yunnan, in thickets 
and open forests. Lat. 25° 55’ N. Alt. 7000-8000 ft. Shrub 
of 12-18 ft. In fruit. Aug. 1919.” G. Forrest. No. 18,400. 
(Also No. 18,833, Nov. 1919.) 
The following Henryan sheets in fruit are referable in my 
opinion to the same species :— 
“ Mengtze, S.E. mountain forests. 6000 ft. Tree of 15 ft.” 
A. Henry. No. 10,764. . 
“ South of Red River, Yunnan. Tree of 40 ft.’’ A. Henry. 
No. 13,662. 
“Mengtze, Yunnan. Shrub of to ft.” A. Henry. No. 
13,6624. 
Styrax Buchananii, W. W.Sm. Sp. nov. 
? S. serrulatus, Roxb., var. latifolius, Perk. in Engl. Pflanz., 
Styracaceae (1907), 37. 
pecies affinis S. serrudato, Roxb. a quo foliis multo latioribus, 
calyce densissime piloso, antheris parte libera filaméntorum 
duplo longioribus inter alia discriminatur 
bor parva; rami subteretes, jnniores densissime incano- 
vel fulvo-stellato-tomentosi, seniores glabrescentes. Folia 
petiolo 3-4 mm. longo tomentoso munita; lamina 6-16 cm. 
longa, 4-11 cm. lata, vulgo late oblonga, apice ambitu subrotun- 
data nunc breviter acuminata nunc obtusissima, basi rotundata, 
margine minute et irregulariter denticulata, papyracea, supra 
