130 S9» ttfiAMNACE-E. 



Rhamnus chlorophorus, Decne. in Comptes Rendus, xl. p. 1140, et in 

 Rondot, Vert de Chine, p. 141, t. 2. 



Chihli : Peking {Bunge ! BreUchneider !) ; Kiangsu : Shang- 

 hai (Perry !) ; Chekiang (Fortune, 37 !) ; Kiangsi : Kiukiang 

 (Shearer I). Mus. Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 



South-eastern Europe and Asia Minor. 



This and B. davuricus yield the famous Green Indigo, the Lo- 

 Kao of China. Almost exact counterparts of Fortune's specimens, 

 which are typical chlorophorus, and Bunge' s authentic B. glo- 

 bosus, are found among the European specimens of B. tinctorius. 

 It is distinguishable from B. parvifolius, as here limited, by the 

 leaves being puberulous, even in the fruiting stage, by the long 

 acuminate calyx-lobes, &c. 



7. Rhamnus virgatus, Benth. Fl. Hongh. p. 68, vice Boxb. 

 Kwangtung : Lofaushan (Ford I); Hongkong (Wright ! 



Champion I). Herb. Kew. 



It has not been thought advisable to give this a new name, 

 because it may yet prove to be specifically the same as one of the 

 forms included under the present name ; but to determine this 

 point satisfactorily would involve the examination of the flowers 

 of a large number of specimens. 



8. Rhamnus, sp. 



Szechuen : about ten miles north of Kweiyang, at 6500 feet 

 (MesnyV). Herb. Kew. 



" Used, with other ingredients, to make a green dye for calicos ; 

 its own liquor being blue like indigo. Neither flowers nor fruits 

 seen." 



This is very different from B. tinctorius and B. davuricus, 

 also employed for dyeing, and it is apparently an evergreen shrub. 



9. Rhamnus, sp. 



Kiangsi : Kiukiang (Maries !) ; Ltjchu Archipelago 

 (Wright^. Herb. Kew. 



There is a little uncertainty about these two gatherings being 

 the same species. The former bears male flowers and the other 

 fruit, and has been named B. crenatus, Sieb. et Zucc, from which 

 both differ in having much fewer primary lateral veins in the 

 leaves, and jn the fascicles of flowers being sessile instead of 

 pedunculate. Perhaps a variety of B. davuricus, Pall. 



