T52 DIAGNOSES SPECIERUM NovARUM. 
Flowers purplish-green. April 1g19.’’ G. Forrest. No. 
17797- 
‘Eastern flank of the N’Maikha-Salween divide, Yunnan, in 
thickets. Lat. 26° 12’ N. Alt. 8,000 ft. Shrub of 20-30 ft. 
May 1919.” G. Forrest. No. 17839. 
The following is closely akin in the slender branchlets and in 
the lanceolate long-acuminate leaves. It differs in the finely 
serrulate leaf-margins and glabrous petioles. It is probably a 
distinct species but the specimens show fcliage only. 
“Shweli-Salween divide, at Ta-hoh-ping, Yunnan, in mixed 
forests. Lat. 25° 4’ N. Alt. 7-8,000 ft. Tree of 40-60 ft. 
Young foliage only. April r919.’’ G. Forrest. No. 17792. 
© Alangium shweliense, WW. W.Sm. Sp. nov. 
Species affinis A. Faberi, Oliver a quo foliis ovato-lanceolatis 
longe petiolatis inter alia differt. d 
Arbor 6-15 m. alta, ramulis ultimis sat crassis fulvido-tomen- 
tellis annotinis tarde gldbrescentibus. Folia petiolo 2.5-4 cm. 
longo dense fulvido-tomentello suffulta; lamina plerumque 9-14 
em. longa, 5.5-8 cm. lata, ovata vel ovato-lanceolata, apice longe 
et tenuissime acuminata, basi plus minusve late rotundata, saepe 
asymmetrica, integra, in sicco tenuiter papyracea, supra sparsim 
adpresse setulosa, subtus subglabra nisi ad costam venasque 
dense fulvido-tomentellas, nervis 7-9 paribus. Cymae circ. 4—-5- 
florae, pedunculo petiolum paulo superante plerumque circ. 5 cm. 
longo tomentello suffultae ; pedicelli 5-6 mm. longi. Flores non 
visi. Fructus ovoideus 13 mm. longus, 6-7 mm. latus, sepalis et 
disco coronatus, exocarpio crasso carnoso, endocarpio lignoso, 
semine unico. 
“West China :—Shweli-Salween divide, Yunnan, in mixed 
thickets and forests. Lat. 25° 40’ N. Alt. 8-9,000 ft. Tree 
of 4o ft. In fruit, fruits dull red. August 1919. G. Forrest. 
No. 18309 
“Shweli-Salween divide in mixed thickets in side valleys. 
Lat. 25° 20’N. Alt. 8-9,000 ft. Shrub or tree of 20-40 ft. In 
fruit, fruits dull red. August 1919.”’ G. Forrest. No. 18372. 
“Shweli Valley, in open situations. Lat. 25° 20/ N. Alt. 
7,000 ft. Tree of 30-50 ft. In fruit. September 1917.” G. 
Forrest. No. 15835. 
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Alseodaphne dumicola, W. W. Sm. Sp. nov. 
_ Species ramis dense fulvo-tomentosis, foliis infra et perianthio 
circ. 8 mm. longo tomento fulvido persistente bene indutis not- 
ata; A. crassipes, Hook. f. ex descriptione fortasse est affinis. 
Frutex 6-7.5 m. altus ramis brevibus crassis angulatis fulvo- 
tomentosis, senioribus foliorum dilapsorum cicatricibus nodosis 
