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ELAEOCARPACEAE 
Elaeocarpus limiteanus Hand.-Maz. Sinensia 3: 193. 1933; Merr. & Chun, Sun- 
yatsenia 2: 63. 1935. za. CNE ENS QE ER 
Elaeocarpus Maclurei Merr. Lingnan‘Sci. Jour. 13: 63. 1934. 
INpo-CxiNA, Tonkin, Chapa, Pételot 1787, 3582, 6156, April 1925, August 1929, and 
July 1931, in forests, alt. about 1500 m. Kwangsi and Haïinan. 
Handel-Mazzettis species was based on a fruiting specimen from Kwangsi 
and Æ. Maclurei Merr. was described from a Haïnan flowering specimen. 
With abundant material in all stages of development from Kwangsi, Hainan, 
and now northern Indo-China, I see no valid reason for trying to dis- 
tinguish two species here. There is an isotype of Handel-Mazzetti’s species 
in the Britton Herbarium, New York Botanical Garden. 
Elaeocarpus linearifolius Knuth, Repert. Sp. Nov. 49: 66.1940. Yza.724.28"JP1. 
This species was based on Pételot 3748 from Chapa, Tonkin, Iñdo-China, 
and Clemens 3484 from the vicinity of Tourane, Annam. I have seen no 
specimens that I consider to be referable to Knuth’s species. 
PRESCerpus Petelotii > a Monocera. Frenn A2 23:18). LD 
Arbor, inflorescentiis floribusque exceptis glabra, ramulis ultimis teréti- 
bus, 4-5 mm. diametro, novellis plus minusve resinosis; foliis plus minusve 
confertis, oblongo-ellipticis vel anguste oblongo-obovatis, coriaceis, utrinque 
glaberrimis et minute distanter verruculosis, 9-11 cm. longis, 3.5-5 cm. latis, 
breviter obtuse acuminatis, basi acutis, margine crenato-serrulatis, dentibus 
3—7 mm. distantibus, minute atro-apiculatis, in sicco pallide brunneo-viridi- 
bus, supra plerumque nitidis, subtus opacis, paullo pallidioribus, nervis 
primariis utrinque 7-8, subtus leviter elevatis, curvatis, arcuato-anastomo- 
santibus; petiolo glabro, circiter 1.5 cm. longo; racemis numerosis in ramulis 
ultimis cum foliis confertis, 6-7 cm. longis, glabris vel parcissime pube- 
scentibus, pedicellis glabris vel subglabris, 6— 7 mm. longis; floribus 5-meris, 
91 mm. longis; sepalis lanceolatis, acuminatis, 9 mm. longis et 2 mm. latis, 
coriaceis, extus glabris, in sicco brunneis, intus deorsum perspicue carinatis 
et glabris vel subglabris sursum cum margine breviter cinereo-pubescenti- 
bus; petalis angustis, anguste oblongis, sursum vix vel leviter ampliatis, 
sepala aequantibus, circiter 1.5 mm. latis, intus dense retrorse hirsutis, de- 
orsum margine plus minusve inflexis perspicue carinatis, extus dense breviter 
pallide adpresse pubescentibus, sursum (3 mm.) in lacinias 12-14 graciles 
2—2.5 mm. longas fissis; staminibus circiter 25, filamentis (1.5-2 mm.) et 
antheris lineari-oblongis (3.5—4 mm.) minute scaberulis, loculo uno obtuso, 
altero breviter (0.7 mm.) aristato; disco circiter 2 mm. diametro, glandulis 
5, retusis vel bifidis, leviter connatis, parcissime breviter pubescentibus; 
ovario ovoideo, 2 mm. longo, dense breviter adpresse pallide hirsuto, 3- 
loculari, loculis 6-ovulatis; stylo 44.5 mm. longo, leviter pubescente. 
* Ixpo-CiNa, Tonkin, Massif de Tam Dao, Pételot 4580, December 1930. 
By Gagnepain’s arrangement of the Indo-Chinese species, this falls in the 
group with Ælaeocarpus Bonii Gagnep. but it has larger flowers than those 
-of the latter species, the petals with more numerous laciniae. By Corner’s 
different arrangement of the Malay Peninsula species (Gard. Bull. Straits 
Settlements 10: 310-316. 1939) it falls in his pentamerous group, section B. 
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