minibus numerosis, 2-2.4 mm. longis, plus minusve oblanceolatis, cellulis 

 contiguis, connectivo ovoideo, acuto vel obtuso, 0.8-1 mm. longo, quani 

 partibus celluliferis latioribus; carpellis circiter 20, cum stylis 3.5-4 mm. 

 longis, ovario oblongo, densissime adpresse subferrugineo-villoso, pilis 1-2 

 mm. longis; stylis glabris oblongis, crassis, l.S mm. longis, truncatis vel 

 subtruncatis interdum minute denticulatis, stigmatibus haud distinctis, 

 glabris; ovulis circiter 8, 2-seriatis. 



Indo-China, Tonkin, Thoi Nguyen Province, Phan Mê, Pételot 26g3, Nov. 12, 1939. 



The alliance of this species is clearly with the Hainan-Tonkin Fissistigma 

 Maclurei Merr. {Melodorum Madurei Ast) and F. villosuni (Ast) comb. 

 nov. {Melodorum villosnm Ast in Lecomte, FI. Gén. Indo-Chine Suppl. 1: 

 110. 1938), the latter based on a single Poilanc collection from Blao, 

 Annam. It differs from the former notably in its sessile or nearly sessile 

 tlowers, more numerous primary nerves, longer pétioles, and shortly acumi- 

 nate, not obtuse leaves, and from the latter in its larger leaves, much more 

 copious ferrugineous indumentum, and larger flowers, being apparently 

 more closely allied to the latter than to the former. 



MYRISTICACEAE 

 Knenia Petelotii sp. nov. 



Arbor parva, ramis ramulisque teretibus, ramis glabris vel subglabris, 

 ramulis ultimis circiter l.S mm. diametro, obscure longitudinaliter striatis, 

 subdense breviter substellato-subfurfuraceis, pallide brunneis; foliis firmi- 

 ter membranaceis vel chartaceis, oblongis vel oblongo-oblanceolatis, 9-22 

 cm. longis, 2.5-5.5 cm. latis, distincte acute acuminatis, basi late acutis, 

 supra glabris, in sicco olivaceis, opacis vel subnitidis, nervulis et reticulis 

 ultimis gracilibus sed manifestis, leviter elevatis, subtus glaucis praesertim 

 secus costam nervosque minute substellato-subfurfuraceis glabrescentibus; 

 nervis primariis utrinque 12-18, subtus elevatis, perspicuis, secus marginem 

 arcuato-anastomosantibus; petiolo 5-10 mm. longo, dense breviter sub- 

 granuloso-pubescente; inflorescentiis c5 a.xillaribus, solitariis, unibellatis, 

 3-S-floris, pedunculis 3-5 mm. longis, cum pedicellis 5-6 mm. longis dense 

 breviter pallide brunneo-pubescentibus, indumento substellato vel sub- 

 stellato-subfurfuraceo; bracteolis in partibus -/i vel i/^ superioribus sub- 

 reniformibus, late rotundatis, circiter 1 mm. longis; perianthio 5-6 mm. 

 longo, inaperto 3-4 mm. diametro, extus dense breviter pubescente, tubo 

 circiter 3 mm. longo, intus glabro, lobis 3, late ovatis, tubo aequantibus, 

 subobtusis vel late acutis, intus glabris; alabastro obovoideo, androphoro 



placentis 4, ovulis numerosis; stylo crasso, 1 mm. longo, stigmate 1 mm. 

 diametro. 



iNDO-Cmx.A, Tonkin, Sontoy Province, Mount Bavi, Pételot 2618, July 2, 1940, a 

 shrub about 2.5 m. high, ait. 600 m. 



A species in the group with C. horrida Linn. and C. mkracantha DC, 



characterized by the flowers being superimposed in a line above the axils, 



and in this group most closely allied to Capparis donnaiensis Pierre, from 



•- '"'^ larorpr. thinner leaves, somewhat fewer latéral 



