MALPIGHIACEAE 
idopterys Jussieu 
Merr. Aspite Po LE shi 1, 1940 
Aspidopterys glabriuscula an IUSS MANN AESCONAEMERB Oo 
13: 267. 1840, Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. 3: 511. 1843; Niedenzu, Pflan- 
zenr. 91 (IV. 141) : 29. f. 84. 1928, sensu lat. 
Inpo-CHiNA: Tonkin, Chapa, Pételot 2297, August 1939, alt. 1500 
m. Assam, Bhotan, Sikkim, eastern Bengal, Burma, and Yunnan. 
The cited specimen agrees very closely with the specimen of Henry 
11055 À in the herbarium of the Arnold Arboretum, this being the type 
number of Aspidopterys Henryi Hutch. Kew Bull. 94. 1917 which 
Niedenzu reduced to A. glabriuscula (Wall.) Juss. var. subrotunda 
Niedenzu. However, neither our specimen of Henry 11055A nor Pételot 
2297 conforms with Hutchinson’s original description nor with that of 
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Niedenzu (as a variety) as the leaves are oblong-lanceolate, not ovate 
or ovate-orbicular. The cited specimen, however, agrees better with 
Niedenzu’s figure of À. glabriuscula Juss. A reconsideration of specific 
limits in this genus is badly needed. 
