薄皮酒饼簕 bo pi jiu bing le

Atalantia racemosa Wight & Arnott var. henryi Swingle, J. Arnold Arbor. 21: 127. 1940.

Trees usually 3-7 m tall. Branchlets brown, slightly flat, glabrous or very sparsely pilose; spines few, 2 mm or less. Leaves 1-foliolate; petiole 4-8 mm; leaflet blade broadly ovate, ovate-elliptic, or sublanceolate, 5-11 × 2.5-5 cm, thickly papery to leathery, oil glands slightly sunken when dry, midvein slightly ridged, secondary veins very numerous and joined in an arched marginal vein, apex shortly acuminate to obtuse and emarginate at tip. Inflorescences axillary, racemose, 1-3 cm, ca. 30-flowered. Pedicel 1-5 mm, with 1 bracteole. Sepals 4(or 5), 1-1.5 mm, pubescent, basally connate, margin ciliate. Petals white, ca. 4 mm. Stamens 8; filaments 1-2 mm, distinct or sometimes in basally coherent phalanges. Gynoecium nearly as long as filaments; ovary subglobose, with 4 large oil glands, 2- or 3-loculed, with 1 ovule per locule; stigma capitate. Fruit reddish orange, globose, 1.5-2 cm in diam., smooth, oil glands inconspicuous. Seeds broadly ovoid, 1-1.4 cm; seed coat thinly crustose, smooth; embryo solitary. Fl. Apr-May, fr. Nov-Dec.

Moist forests in limestone mountains; 300-1100 m. W Guangxi, Yunnan [NE Vietnam].