64 WILSON EXPEDITION TO CHINA 
Prunus sericea, var. Batalinii Koehne, n. var. 
Arbor 5-metralis (Potanin) v. 13-22-metralis (Wilson); ramuli 
novelli glabri. Folia e basi rotundata v. acuta elliptica v. inverse 
oblonga (in innovationibus 9.5-13: 3-5.5 cm., in ramulis florentibus 
paullo minora), longitudine latitudinem saepe triplam aequante, 
durante evolutione subtus insigniter densissime candido-sericea, 
postea pilis perturbatis densis, sed paginam inferiorem haud abscon- 
dentibus cinereo-hirtella. Racemorum axes pedicellique tenere brevi- 
ter pilosi, cupulae glabrae, sepala tenere ciliata, ceterum glabra; pe- 
tala 4 mm. longa, 3 mm. lata, vix eroso-denticulata; stamina 27-32, 
ad 5 mm. longa; stylus sepalis sublongior. Fructus 16 mm. longus, 
subglobosus, niger; putamen ovatum, 12.9 mm. longum, 8.6 mm. diam. 
v. 10.8 mm. longum, 8.8 mm. diam. laeve. 
Western Szech'uan: Ya-chu, April 7, 1893, G. N. Potanin; Wa- 
shan, alt. 1200-1800 m., September 1908 (No. 222”). Western 
Hupeh: Pao-k'ang, 1901 (Veitch Exped. No. 277, fruiting branches; 
the flowering branches of this No. belong to P. Wilson). 
Prunus sericea, var. brevifolia Koehne, n. var. 
Arbor 10-13-metralis trunco 0.45-0.60 m. diam.; ramuli juniores 
basi interdum pulverulento-puberuli, ceterum glaberrimi. Folia e 
basi plerumque rotundata oblongo-obovata v. obovata v. late ovalia 
(5.5-9.5 cm.: 2.7-5 cm.), longitudine latitudinis 2.3-2.6 aequante, 
durante evolutione subtus tomento flavo-cinereo densissimo obtecta, 
venarum reticulo nigrescente conspicuo, postea ut in typo subtus pilis 
perturbatis densisque neque vero paginam inferiorem abscondentibus 
cinereo-hirtella. Racemi 9-12 cm. longi, axi pedicellis cupulis sepalis 
dense fuscescenti-hirtellis; pedicelli 4-5 mm. longi; cupula 4 mm. 
longa, 5 mm. lata, profunda semiglobosa, intus glabra (ut in omnibus 
Pachypodii speciebus); sepala late breviter lingulata, apice rotundata, 
dense ciliata, glandulisque singulis margine obsita; in floribus nondum 
evolutis petala 4 mm., stamina 32 circ. 5 mm. longa, stylus sepala 
haud aequans, glaber. Fructus ignotus. 
Western Hupeh: north and south of Ichang, woods, alt. 600- 
1200 m., May 1907 (No. 127, as to flowering branches; the fruiting 
branches belong to P. Wilsonii, var. leiobotrys).! 
! Another new variety, but not represented in the Wilson collection is the 
following : 
Prunus sericea, var. septentrionalis Koehne, n. var. 
Racemi axis pedicellique glaberrimi. 
Northern Shensi: In-kia-po, G. Giraldi (No. 6081.) 
