ovatis, rotundatis vel obtusis, glabris vel leviter pubescentibus, circiter 

 1 mm. longis; ovario globoso, glaberrimo, haud 1 mm. longo, stylis 

 aequilongis. 



Indo-China, Tonkin, Massif du Fan Tsi Pan, near Chapa, A. Petelc 

 4532, ait. about 1400 m., February, 1932. 



Among the simple leaved species Meliosma sterrophylla Merr. is dis- 

 tinguished by its rigid glabrous branches and branchlets, its stiff, entire, 

 prominently nerved, long-petioled, glabrous leaves, its stiff panicles 

 which are only slightly pubescent, and its glabrous ovaries, the flowers 

 spicately arranged on the ultimate branchlets, not in glomerules. Its 

 alliance is with M. Tsangtakii Merr. of Hainan, but that soecies has 



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SABIACEAE 



Meliosma Clemensiorum sp. nov. {^Pinnatac) 



Arbor parva; ramis teretibus, lenticellatis, glabris, pallidis, ramulis 

 ultimis leviter 'pubescentibus, circiter 4 mm. diamètre; foliis pinnat.s, 

 circiter 45 cm. longis, petiolis breviter adpresse pubescentibus, foliolis 

 plerumque 11, integris, chartaceis vel subcoriaceis, oblongo-elhptias vel 

 oblongis 9-17 cm. longis, 4-7 cm. latis, superioribus majoribus, basi 

 acutis apice breviter acuminatis, supra olivaceis, glabris vel ad costam 

 breviter pubescentibus, subtus pallidioribus, ad costam nervosque 

 breviter adpresse pubescentibus, nervis primariis utrinque in foins m- 

 ■ - • '^-'::- =..r,Prioribus circiter 15, subtus manifestis, 



