INDO-CHINA, Tonkin, Chapa, Petelot 5863, April, 1936, alt. about 
1500 m. Vunnan, Haïinan. Petelot 3944 from the same locality, dis- 
tributed as M. simplicifolia Roxb., apparently represents the same 
species. 
Meliosma Fordii Hemsl. Jour. Linn. Soc. Bot. 23: 144. 1886. 
INpo-CxiNa, Tonkin, Chapa, Petelot 5453, April, 1935. Kwangsi, 
Kwangetuns and Haiïinan: new ta the Inda-China flara 
52 JOURNAL OF THE ARNOLD ARBORETUM 
TILIACEAE 
Tilia mesembrinos sp. nov. 
Arbor, ramis ramulisque teretibus, glaberrimis, ultimis circiter 2 mm 
diametro; foliis oblique inaequilateraliterque ovatis, circiter 10 cm 
longis et 6 cm. latis, supra subolivaceis, glabris vel in nervis basalibus 
breviter decidue stellato-pubescentibus, subtus densissime stellato® 
pubescentibus pilis albidis vel in nervis pallide brunneis, apice acutis! 
basi latissime inaequilateraliter acutis vel oblique truncatis, haud corda: 
tis, recto- vel curvato-dentatis dentibus 0.5-1 mm. longis 2-5 mm 
remotis, subpatulis, versus basim integris; nervis primariis utrinqué 
circiter 7, rectis, adscendentibus, subtus manifestis; petiolo 3—3.5 cm! 
longo, Sbro vel sursum stellato-pubescente; cymis ut videtur 3- floris, 
sub fructu cum bracteis circiter 14 cm. longis, pedunculis glabris, circitel 
3.5 cm. longis, pedicellis breviter stellato-pubescentibus; bracteis sessili 
bus vel brevissime (1-2 mm.) crasse stipitatis, oblanceolatis, obtusis vel 
rotundatis, 10-14 cm. longis, sursum circiter 2 cm. latis, deorsum plus 
minusve angustatis, basi 6-8 mm. latis, obtusis, in sicco pallidis, utrinqu 
breviter stellato-pubescentibus; fructibus ovoideis vel subellipsoïdeis; 
circiter 1 cm. longis, breviter apiculatis, subverruculosis et dense brevitet 
pallide pubescentibus. 
Inpo-CxiNA, Tonkin, Massif du Song Ta Van, Chapa, 4. Petelot 
3808, August, 1936. 
This is the first representative of the genus to be recorded from Indo- 
China, the specific name being selected in reference to its rather unusuäl 
southern range as compared to most other species of the genus. j 
well characterized by its entire leaf-bases being very broadly acute te 
obliquely truncate, not at all cordate, and by the very dense whitisi 
indumentum covering the entire lower surface. In some respects it sug 
gests Tilia mofungensis Chun & Wang of Kwangtung Province, Chin 
but that species has somewhat cordate leaf-bases and a very difieren 
indumentum. 
STERCULIACEAE 
Craigia W. W. Smith & Evans 
_ Craigia yunnanensis W. W. Sm. & W. E. Evans Trans. Proc. Bot. Sog 
Edinb. 28: 69. #. 1. 1921. 
INpo-CHINA, Tonkin, Chapa, Petelot 3810, August, 1930, a tree 15 t0 
20 m. high, al about 1500 m. A monotypic genus previously know 
only from Vunnan. 
Sterculia scandens Hemsl. Kew Bull. 1908: 179. 
’e) 
—srer A Tanbin near Î] Aa0kaï. F [21 Milecnn 9704 
