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11. Wormia Mansoni: a hitherto undescribed species from Burma. 
A. T. GAGE. 
In May 1905, Mr. F. B. Manson, now retired from Government 
service but then Conservator of Forests, Tenasserim Circle, sent to 
the writer a species of Wormia, which could not be identified with 
any species in the Herbarium of the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta. 
More material of the same species was sent in the following July 
and September by Mr. Manson’s successor. This allowed of a fairly 
complete description of the species being drawn up, which is given 
below 
The writer is indebted to Colonel Prain and Mr. J. F. Duthie 
for having kindly compared the species with the bi erage in the 
Kew collection, with none of which has it been found to . 
‘edetee brannei lenticellati. Folia alterna, brev iter petiolata, sine 
ae stipulari, elliptico- -lanceolata, _— acuta, basi cuneata, serrata, 
riacea, supra nitida, infra surda, nervis lateralibus 12—15. 
Petiolun 1—1°4 em. longus ; lamina 1 1316 em. longa, 4°5—6'5 cm. 
lata. Flores 4—5 em. lati, in racemis terminalibus 3-4 flores geren- 
tibus dispositi, alabastro in bractea decidua incluso. Pedunculi 
em. | 
minora. Petala — 4; aba: ‘dnaetats integra, obovata, 2—3 cm. 
longa, 1 cm. lata, in alabastro imbricata. Stamina numerosa, 7—10 
mm. longa, filamenta fere aequalia 3-serialiter disposita, antheris 
- per ostia terminalia dehiscentibus, Carpella 5 raro 6, subtrigona, 
vix in axe cohaerentia, staminibus obtecta; stigmata tot quot car- 
pella, subulata, reflexa; ovula numerosa bi-serialia axillariter 
ae osita. Fructus 2—2°5 om. crassus; carpella maturescentia 
2—3-sperma, carnea, haud intorta, vix x cohaerentia, basi ee 
ee cincta et calyce carnea persistente inclusa. mi 
iformia, usco-brunnea, ragulosa, 5 mm. longa, 3 mm. lata, in 
arillo (albo ?) tenaci inclus 
n ripis api Yunzalin, prope confluentem cum Salween, 
Tenasserim, Mans 
Tp to the mh the species of the Eu-Wormia section, found 
in Ceylon and the Malayan Peninsula, which have been described 
are :—Wormia triquetra Rottb., Flor. a Brit. Ind., i. 35, from Ceylon ; 
W. pulchella Jack, Flora Brit. Ind., i i 36, W. shabioamdsfolia King, W. 
Scortechinii King, W. Kunstleri King, Journ, Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Iviii. 
II, 365-366, all from the Malayan Peninsula. The present < cing 
which extends the ditetbution of the genus northwards into Burma, 
is readily distinguishable from those just mentioned W. triquetra, 
W. Scortechinii and W. Kunstleri are trees, the two latter at least 
20 metres high, while W. Mansoni is ashrub. W. meliosmefolia is 
described as a small tree, and W. pulchellaasashrub. The former 
differs from W, Mansoni in having 12 carpels, the latter in having 
obvate-oblong entire leaves with only 5-7 pairs of nerves. 
