adpresseque uicvilci ,....,_ 



erectis, longe pedunculatis atque exsertis, pedunculo circiter 10 cm. 



pallide griseo- ad subcinereo-puberulis, ramis glabris, teretibus, ramulis 

 breviter pubescentibus; foliis alternis, discoloribus, supra olivaceis, 

 glabris, nitidis, subtus pallide cinereis, chartaceis vel subcoriaceis, 

 oblongo-lanceolatis vel oblongis, 6-15 cm. longis, l.S-5 cm. latis, 

 tenuiter acuteque acuminatis, basi late acutis vel subrotundatis, inte- 

 gerrimis; nervis primariis utrinque 10-12, gracilibus, distinctis, ad 

 marginem curvatis, obscure anastomosantibus; petiolo 1-2 cm. lo ;o, 

 pubescente; infructescentiis axillaribus, fructibus globoso-obovoidt is, 

 glabris, S mm. longis, fasciculatis, raro solitariis, vel depaupt "; to- 

 umbellatis, pedunculo usque 5-7 mm. longis, calycibus persisten iûus 

 puberulis, disciformibus, 2 mm. diametro. 



Indo-China, Tonkin, Chapa, A. Petelot 4371 (type), July, IQ , 

 4568, August, 1929, ait. 1500 to 1600 m., fruits red. 



A species strongly characterized by its leaves being glabrous o'ni- 

 ceous and shining above, and pale cinereous or pale gray and de dy 

 puberulent beneath. The fruits are axillary, or in pairs, or up * in 

 fascicles or in shortly peduncled umbels. 



Ventilago leiocarpa Benth. Jour. Linn. Soc. Bot. 5: 77. 1860. 



Indo-China, Tonkin, Thai Nguyen Province, Thai Nguyen te an 

 Mê, and Thai Nguyen to Bac Kon, Petelot 4690, 4807, April and 

 1933. Formosa, Kwangtung, Kwangsi, and Hainan. The Malay P^ 

 sula form referred hère by someauthors is Ventilago malaccensis Ri 



VITACEAE 



Ampélopsis cantoniensis (H. & A.) K. Koch, var. grossed 

 Hand.-xMaz. Anz. Akad. Wiss. Wien 59: 104. 1922. 

 Indo-China, Tonkin, Chapa, Petelot 5818, July, 1937, a liana S 



m. long, ait. 1500 m. Fukien, Kwangtung, Kiangsi, and Kwei n. 

 Vitis multijugata Lév. is a synonym. 



ELAEOCARPACEAE 



Elaeocarpus GriflSthii (Wight) A. Gray, Wilkes U. S. Expl. oed. 



Bot. 1: 203. 1854; Kurz Jour. As. Soc. Bengal 39(2): 68. -70; 



Mast. in Hook. f. FI. Brit. Ind. 1: 408. 1874; Gagnep. in Le' omte 



FI. Gén. Indo-Chine 1: 570. 1911. 

 Elaeocarpus argyrodcs Hance, Jour. Bot. 15: 330. 1877 (syn. nov.). 

 The tvpe of Hance's species was a spécimen collected in Cambodia by 



