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pillosa. Racemi absque pedunculo foliato 11-23 cm. longi, sec. cl. 
Wilson plus minus penduli, glabri v. (saepe in racemis ex eodem ramo 
primario ortis) pulverulento-velutini; pediceli 2-6 mm. longi; cu- 
pula 2-3 mm. longa, 3-4.5 mm. lata, intus infra medium villosa; sepala 
` breviter glanduloso-fimbriata; petala 2-4.5 mm. longa, rotundata v. 
obovato-rotundata, vix eroso-denticulata; stamina 18-33, majora 
petalis parum v. paullulum longiora; pistillum cire. 4 mm. longum, 
glabrum, stylus sepala circ. aequans. Fructus ut videtur 5-7 mm. 
diam.; putamen 4-5.5 mm. longum, 4-5 mm. diam., hinc carinatum, 
obsoletissime rugosum, durum. 
Western Szech'uan: southeast of Tachien-lu, woodlands, alt. 
1500-2200 m., June 1908 (No. 2843); Nin-tou-shan, west of Kuan 
Hsien, woodlands, alt. 1800 m., June 20, 1908 (No. 2846); Mupin, 
woodlands, alt. 1500-1800 m., August 1908 (No. 899); Nanch'uan, 
1901, A. von Rosthorn; without locality, A. Henry (Nos. 5739, 5763). 
Western Hupeh: Hsing-shan Hsien, woods, alt. 1200-2300 m., 
July and August 1907 (No. 190); Changyang Hsien, woods, alt. 1200- 
1500 m., September 1907 (No. 115); north and south of Ichang, 
woodlands, alt. 900-1500 m., June 1, 1907 (No. 2839, as to flowering 
branches; the fruiting branches belong to P. venosa); without locality, 
A. Henry (No. 5988). Northern Shensi: G. Giraldi (Nos. 1141, 
5200). 
"This variety is often confounded in collections with P. ssiori F. Schmidt 
Prunus brachypoda, var. microdonta Koehne, n. var. 
Arbor 10-metralis trunco 40 em. diam. Petioli 12-26 mm. longi, 
biglandulosi; lamina e basi rotundata v. vix subcordata oblonga V. 
lanceolata (3.5-11 cm. longa, 1.3-3.3 em. lata), longe paullatim v. 
subcaudato-acuminata, minutim serrulata dentibus saepe quasi 
mucronem reductis porrectis v. incumbentibus, subtus glabra v. in 
axillis nervorum barbata, sub mieroscopio subtus scabrido-papillosa. 
Racemi 14-18 cm. longi, glabri; petala 3 mm. longa, 2.5 mm. lata; 
stamina c. 29 petalis parum longiora; pistillum 3 mm. longum. 
Putamen 4-5 mm.: 4.5-5 mm.: 3.5 mm. Cetera ut in var. pseudo- 
sstori. 
Western Hupeh: Chang-lo Hsien, woods, alt. 1200-1500 m., 
April and September 1907 (Nos. 2836, 2838); without locality, 1901 
(Veitch Exped. No. 2255). 
Prunus obtusata Koehne, n. sp. 2 
Arbor 8-13-metralis trunco 30-50 cm. diam., ramuli juveniles 
