Figure 1. Caesalpinia stenoptera Merr. A, leaf; B, fruit. 



mosis, multifloris, salteni 35 cm. longis, dense breviterque nitide cupreo- 



pubescentibus, pedicellis circiter 2 cm. longis, bracteolis acicularibus, 



ueiore tne'Howéfs open. ' ' ' "' ' ' '" "' -J -- a„_:u..„ 



Prunus Wallichii Steud. Nomencl. éd. 2, 2: 404. 1841 : Merr. Contr. 

 Arnold Arb. 8: 72. 1934. 



Cerasus acuminatus Wall. List no. 719, 1829, nomcn luidtiui. PI. As. 

 Rar. 2:78. «..ZW. 1831. 



Prunus acuminala D. Dietr. Syn. 3: 42. 1843, non Michx. 



Indo-China, Tonkin, Chapa, Petelot 4587, 5705, October, 1932, and 

 August, 1935, in forested ravines, ait. 1500 to 1700 m. Himalayan 

 région to Yunnan, Kwangsi and Kweichow, Burma, Siam, and northern 

 Sumatra. New to Indo-China. 



LEGUMINOSAE 

 Caesalpinia stenoptera sp. nov. Figure 1. 



Frutex scandens, C. nugae affinis, differt capsulis valde inaequilaterali- 

 bus, in latere angustiore rectis vel leviter concavis, distincte alatis; ramis 

 teretibus, glabris; foliis circiter 15 cm. longis, bipinnatis, rhachibus 

 primariis secundariisque remote retrorse aculeatis, aculeis circiter 1 mm. 

 longis; pinnis 2-paribus, 7-10 cm. longis; foliolis plerumque 3-paribus, 

 chartaceis vel subcoriaceis, aequilateralibus, ovatis vel oblongo-ovatis 

 vel late oblongo-lanceolatis, perspicue obtuse acuminatis, basi obtusis 

 vel subrotundatis, utrinque nitidisj 2.5-5 cm. longis, 1.3-2 cm. latis, 

 subreticulatis, nervis primariis utrinque circiter 10; leguminibus sub- 

 orbicularibus, compressis, 3-3.5 cm. longis, circiter 3 cm. latis, valde 

 inaequilateralibus, in latere latiore suborbicularibus, in latere angustiore 

 subrectis vel convexis et distincte crasse alatis, ala circiter 2 mm. lata, 

 stylis Dersistentibus circiter 8 mm. longis. 



