1938] MERRILL, INDO-CHINESE PLANTS 47 



SABIACEAE 



Meliosma Clemensiorum sp. nov. (§/'/«wa<ae) ('V.t'-tM ' 



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

 ultimis leviter pubescentibus, circiter 4 mm. diametro; foliis pinnatis, 

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

 plerumque 11, integris, chartaceis vel subcoriaceis, oblongo-ellipticis 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 foliis in- 

 ferioribus circiter 8, in foliis superioribus circiter 15, subtus manifestis, 

 elevatis, arcuato-anastomosantibus; paniculis saltem 15 cm. longis, 

 pedunculatis, breviter brunneo-pubescentibus, ramis primariis paucis, 

 inferioribus ad 10 cm. longis, floribus sessilibus, in ramulis ultimis 

 spicatim dispositis, haud confertis, spicis 1-2 cm. longis, paucifloris; 

 bracteis bracteolisque ovatis, acutis vel acuminatis, pubescentibus, 0.5 

 mm. longis; sepalis ovatis, glabris vel subglabris; ovario subgloboso, 

 pubescente, circiter 1 mm. diametro, stylis glabris, ovarium aequantibus. 

 Indo-Chin.a, Annam, Mount Bana, /. & M. S. Clcmcns 3775, May- 

 July, 1927, a small tree in forests, flowers dull yellow. 



This is the first pinnate-leaved species of the genus to be recorded from 

 Indo-China. Its alliance seems manifestly to be with Meliosma Arnotti- 

 ana Walp., from which it differs not only in its indumentum but also in 

 its spicately and rather distantly arranged flowers, those of Walpers' 

 species being glomerate on the ultimate branchlets. 



