188 WILSON EXPEDITION TO CHINA 
Photinia Beauverdiana, var. notabilis Rehder & Wilson, n. comb. 
Photinia notabilis Schneider, Ill. Handb. Laubholzk. I. 711, (1906). 
Western Hupeh: without locality, May 1900 (Veitch Exped. 
No. 359, type); Changyang Hsien, woods, alt. 1300 m., October 1907 
(No. 468; thin tree 6 m. tall, fruit orange-red); Fang Hsien, alt. 
1300-2000 m., November 1907 (No. 629; thin tree 6 m. tall, fruits 
red); Hsing-shan Hsien, woods, alt. 1300-1600 m., June 1907 (No. 
2969; thin flat-topped tree 10 m. tall, flowers white); Chang-lo Hsien, 
woods, alt. 1000-1500 m., May and July 1907 (No. 2973, in part; tree 
6 m. tall, flowers white). 
This variety has rather thicker, more prominently veined leaves and longer 
corymbs than the type, but with the mass of material before us we cannot maintain 
it as a distinct species. The leaves on our specimens measure, excluding the 
petiole, 9-12 em. Schneider cites for this variety leaves 9-13 cm. long; otherwise 
our specimens fit his description exactly. 
Photinia Schneideriana Rehder & Wilson, n. sp. 
Arbor circiter 6-metralis, gracilis; ramuli hornotini laxe villosi, 
demum  glabrescentes, annotini glabri, purpureo-fusci, vetustiores 
grisei, lenticellati; gemmae ovoideae, acutiusculae, atro-brunneae, 
glabrae. Folia | decidua, membranacea, oblongo-lanceolata, rarius 
oblongo-elliptica, longe acuminata, basi late cuneata, 6-11 em., plerum- 
que 8-9 em. longa et 2-5.5 cm., plerumque 3-3.5 cm. lata, supra 
luteo-viridia, initio sparse villosula, mox glabra, subtus pallidiora, 
tomento laxo villoso facile detergendo sed ad maturitatem persistente 
obtecta, nervis utrinsecus 10-15 utrinque leviter elevatis; petioli 6- 
10 mm. longi, initio villosi, demum glabri. Corymbus terminalis, 
multiflorus, 5-7 em. diam., laxe et sparse villosus; axes secundarii gra- 
ciliter pedunculati, 3-9-flori; pedicelli 3-8 mm. longi, glabri, fructiferi 
verrucosi; calycis tubus turbinatus, 2-2.5 mm. longus et 4 mm. 
diam., glaber, nigrescens (in sicco), dentes erecto-patentes, semi- 
orbieularia, mucronulati, circiter 1 mm. longi, intus sursum pilosus; 
petala patentia, suborbicularia, 44.5 mm. longa et 3.5-4 mm. lata, 
apice rotundata, basi brevissime unguiculata, glabra; stamina 20, 
petalis subaequilonga; ovarium semisuperum, apice villosum; styli 
2-3, triente superiore excepta connati, glabri. Fructus ovoideus, 10 
mm. longus et 8 mm. diam., scarlatinus, glaber, dentibus persistentibus 
suberectis v. plus minus ineurvis coronatus; semina plerumque 2-3, 
ovoidea, 5-6 mm. longa, utrinque acutiuscula, obscure brunnea. 
Western Hupeh: Changyang Hsien, woodlands, alt. 1300-1600 
