四川蒲桃 si chuan pu tao

Trees, small, glabrous. Branchlets blackish brown when dry, ridged, glabrous. Petiole ca. 5 mm; leaf blade ovate-lanceolate, 6-9 × 2-2.5 cm, leathery, abaxially yellowish brown when dry, adaxially blackish brown and not glossy when dry, abaxially with numerous protuberant black glands, secondary veins dense, 1-2 mm apart, and at an angle of ca. 60° from midvein, intramarginal veins ca. 1 mm from margin, both secondary and intramarginal veins abaxially visible and adaxially inconspicuous, base cuneate and decurrent, apex caudate-acuminate. Inflorescences terminal, cymes, ca. 1 cm, 1-3-flowered; peduncle ca. 5 mm; bracts acicular, ca. 1 mm. Hypanthium obconic, ca. 3 mm. Calyx lobes 4, short and obtuse. Petals distinct, ca. 2 mm. Stamens 4-5 mm. Style as long as stamens.

● Sichuan.

The specific epithet was incorrectly spelled "szechuanense" in FRPS (53(1): 91. 1984).