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Hab. Tenasserim, Moulmein District (Falconer). 



In HBC. are some leaves from the Khakhyen-hills which apparently re- 

 present a second Burmese species of this genus, if they should not be identi- 

 cal with Hiern's Scyphopetalum, the description of which is too imperfect 

 to enable one to recognize from it the plant intended. They have the 3 

 end-leaflets similarly ternate and in texture and nervature are almost the 

 same as the above. 



Scyphopetalum, Hiem. 



1. S. eamifloetjm, Hiern in Hf. Ind. Fl. I. 676. 



Hab. Ava, hill- forests of Hookhoom valley (Griff.) teste Hiern. 



I have not seen this plant, and place it near JParaneplielium simply by 

 guess. The petals are differently described and the style is said to be 

 obsolete, — characters which would keep it distinct from Miquel's genus. 



Cupania, Plum. 

 Conspectus of species. 

 Subg. I. Mu- Cupania. Capsules clavate-pyriform, more or less conspicu- 

 ously S-lobed or angular, coriaceous. 



* Petals present, furnished with a double scale. 



x Leaves and panicles glabrous. 

 Leaflets opaque, glaucescent beneath, the nerves thin ; rachis narrowly winged upwards, 



. . C. Griffithiana. 

 Leaflets glossy, one-coloured, strongly nerved and net-veined ; rachis terete, C. glabrata. 



x x Leaflets beneath and panicle shortly tawny pubescent. 

 Leaflets chartaceous, fuscescent in drying, opaque, C.fuscidula. 



* * Petals none or minute, xvithout scales. 



Net-venation minute and obsolete j filaments glabrous ; leaflets in 2 pairs, C. Lessertiana. 

 Net-venation strong and prominent on both sides ; filaments exserted, pubescent ; leaflets 



not fuscescent, C. Sumatrana. 



Net-venation thin but prominent ; filaments short, pubescent ; leaflets fuscescent, 



. . C. Selferi. 



(Subg. II. Arytera, Bl. Capsule nearly to the base divided into 2 divergent 

 lobes, coriaceous. 



Leaflets chartaceous, reddish fuscous beneath, glabrous ; panicles tawny pubendous, 



. . C. adenophylla. 



1. C. Gkipfithiana, Kurz (C. pleuropteris, Hiern in Hf. Ind. Fl. I. 

 677, non BL). 



Hab. Tenasserim (Helf. 983). 



What Mr. Hiern describes as C. pallidula (Maingay 442 ; Griff. 9S2) 

 is C. pleuropteris, Bl. 



2. C. glabeata, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. 1872. 303. (Sapin- 

 dus glabratus, "Wall. Cat. 8095). 



Hab. Bather frequent in the tropical forests along the eastern slopes 

 of the Pegu Yomah and also in Martaban. — FL Apr. May. 



