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color of the dried specimens of Rhamnus napalensis (Wall.) Laws. and R. 
subapetalus Merr., I should have hesitated in proposing the latter as a new 
species but for the very striking petal characters of the latter, these being 
totally different from the petals of the Rhamnus napalensis (Wall.) Laws. 
complex; as noted in the description the petals may be entirely wanting, 
or, if present, then only from 1 to 5 in a flower, slender, obscure, acuminate, 
flat, shorter than and not wider than the filaments, and not enclosing the 
latter. ; 
VITACEAE 
Tetrastigma Henryi Gagnep. Not. Syst. 1: 264. 1910. 
Ixpo-CriNa, Tonkin, route from Hanoi to Hoa Binh at Muong Thon, Pételot 5975, 
March 1933, in savannas, alt. about 200 m. Vunnan, Haïnan. 
With Gagnepain’s interpretation of this species as having from palmately 
3-foliolate to pedately 5-foliolate leaves, it is difficult to see how Pételot 
5975 with strictly 5-foliolate pedate leaves can be distinguished. It may 
be that more than a single species was included in the original description, 
but in that case it is believed that the species should be interpreted from 
the first number cited, Henry 11756, a form with strictly 3-foliolate leaves. 
Henry 9992, the last number cited by Gagnepain, is very closely matched 
Lur Détolat ER1R from Chana hath enerimenc heino in fruit and in ahout 
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species, dedicated to the collector, but on critical reconsideration I conclude: 
that Sterculia Henryi Hemsl. is represented. The Chapa material has some- 
what wider leaves than Hemsley admits for Séerculia H enryi Hemsl., de- 
scribed as 4-6 cm. wide, but the maximum width of one of our Henry speci- 
mens from Vunnan is 9 cm., and 9 cm. is the maximum width on the Pételot 
specimen above cited. The indumentum, inflorescence, bracteole, and floral 
characters are the same as in Hemsley’s species, while the habit (a small 
shrub) and the characteristic crowded bracts or stipules at the tips of the 
branches are also identical. 
DILLENIACEAE 
Saurauia macrotricha Kurz ex Dyer in Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. L: 287. 1874. 
Inpo-Crina, Tonkin, Chapa, Massif de Fan Tsi Pan, Pételot 2689, July 1940, : 
shrub 4-5 m. high with red flowers, in open forests, alt. about 1300 m. Burma, Vunnan, 
and Khasia (Jaintia Hills, Ruse 152). 
The original and only published description is very incomplete, but the 
above cited specimen conforms to the brief characters as given, and the 
specimen moreover matches Ruse 152, determined at Calcutta as repre- 
senting Kurz’s species. The type was from either Burma or Vunnan, both 
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