39. BHAMNAOE^i. 127 



Chihli, Shin gking, and Shantung, common (Homel Daniell\ 

 Bunge ! Bretschneider ! Staunton ! .Bos* ! Maingay ! and others) ; 

 Kiangsu: Shanghai (Maingay I); Cobea (Perry !) ; Hupeh 

 (A. Henry !). Mus. Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 



South-eastern Europe to Afghanistan ; Japan. 



Maingay 's specimens from Shanghai have an oblong fruit, and 

 otherwise differ from the ordinary form of Z. vulgaris ; yet it is 

 probably a variety, as there are intermediate states. 



1. Microrhamnus franguloides, Maxim, in Mem. Acad. Sc. 

 Petersb. 7 e serie, x. (reprint, p. 4), et in Mel. Biol. xii. p. 431. 



Rhamnella japonica, Miq. in Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. iii. p. 30. 



Berchemia congesta, S. Moore in Journ. Bot. 18/5, p. 226. 



Kiangsu : Shanghai (Maingay, 698, 707 !) ; Kiangsi : Kiu- 

 kiang (Shearer ! Forbes !). Mus. Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 



Japan. 



Flowering specimens of this very strongly resemble Bhamnus 

 crenatus. 



1. Berchemia lineata, DC. Pro dr. ii. p. 23 ; Hook, et Am. Bot. 

 Beech. Yoy. p. 177, t. 37 ; Benth. Fl. Hongk. p. 67 ; Maxim, in 

 Mem. Acad. Sc. Petersb. 7 e serie, x. (reprint, p. 6) ; Hance in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 115 ; Hook.f. Fl. Brit. Ind. i. p. 638. 



Rhamnus lineatus, Linn. Amaen. Acad. iv. p. 308 ; Osb. Voy., Eng. ed. i. 

 p. 353, t. /. 



China : without locality (Macartney ! Millet ! Meyen ! Potts ! 

 Fortune !) ; Fobhosa: Tamsui (Oldham 69!); Hupeh (A. 

 Henry !) ; Fokien : Foochow (Maries !), Amoy (Ranee, 1463 !) ; 

 Kwangtung : Whampoa (Lamontl), Lofaushan (Ford I) ; 

 Hongkong (Wright I), Pakhoi (Play/air !) ; Luchu Abchipe- 

 la.go (Wright !). Mus. Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 



Himalaya, from the Indus to Sikkim. 



Hooker and Arnott, loc. cit., refer Berchemia Loureiriana, DC. 

 (Bhamnus lineata, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. p. 159), and B. Poiretiana, 

 DC. (Prodr. ii. p. 23), to this species ; but the former is de- 

 scribed by Loureiro as being prickly. 



2. Berchemia racemosa, Sieb. et Zucc. Fl. Jap., Fam. Nat. 

 p. 39 ; Benth. Fl. Hongk. p. 67 ; Maxim, in Mem. Acad. Sc. 

 Petersb. 7 e serie, x. (reprint, p. 5). 



Berchemia lineata, Benth. in Hook. Kew Journ. Bot. iv. p. 42, et Seem. 

 Bot. Voy. * Herald,' p. 372, non DC. 



Chusan Abchipelago (Cunningham in herb. Sloane, eclxix. 



