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purple, oblong, 4.5-6 cm. or more long, about 2 em. wide, somewhat tuberculate, 
rounded; seeds apiculate, jet black, compressed, 4-5 mm. high, 5-6 mm. long. 
The colloquial name in Hupeh for this and other species is * Pa-yueh-cha." The 
inner pulp of the fruit of this species is white, watery, rather sweet, but of insipid 
flavor, and is eaten by the natives. 
Stauntonia brevipes Hemsley in Hooker's Icon. XXIX. sub t. 2849 (1907) we 
have not seen, but from the description we suspect that it is merely a state of 
H. coriacea Diels. 
Holboellia grandiflora Réaubourg in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, LIII. 
453 (1906). — Gagnepain in Bull. Mus. Nat. Hist. Paris, XIV. 67 
(1908). 
Western Szech’uan: Ching-chi Hsien, base of Ta-hsiang-ling, on 
rocks, alt. 1300 m., May 1908 (No. 889, in part; climber 5-6 m., 
flowers white, very fleshy, fragrant); Ching-chi Hsien, base of Wa-wu- 
shan, thickets, alt. 1300-1600 m., September 14, 1908 (No. 889, in 
part; climber 6 m., fruit purple, edible); Ching-chi Hsien, on rocks, 
foot of Ta-hsiang-ling, May 1904 (Veitch Exped. No. 3139). 
This handsome species is readily distinguished from all other species by its large 
(3 em. long) flowers, and by the very strongly retieulate venation of the leaves, 
which are broadest above the middle and narrowed to the ends. The fruit is edible, 
purple, 8-12 cm. long; the flowers very fleshy and delightfully fragrant. It is 
apparently rare, being known to us from two localities only. 
Réaubourg (l. c.) quotes “ Hupeh: 1905 Wilson.” There is some mistake here; 
1905 probably refers to the year the specimens were received in Paris. 
Holboellia Fargesii Réaubourg in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, LIII. 454 
(1906). 
Holboellia angustifolia Diels in Bot. Jahrb. XXIX, 343 (non Wallich) (1900). 
— Réaubourg in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, sér. 4, VI. 452 (1906). 
"AN angustifolia? var. angustissima Diels in Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. 343 
(1900). 
Stauntonia longipes Hemsley in Hooker's Icon. XXIX. t. 2848 (1907). 
Holboellia latifolia Gagnepain in Bull. Mus. Nat. Hist. Paris, XIV. 67 (pro 
parte, non Wallich) (1908). 
Western Hupeh: Hsing-shan Hsien, woodlands, alt. 1300-2000 
m., May 21 and September 1907 (No. 166 ; climber 3-6 m., male flowers 
greenish-white, female flowers purplish, fruit purple); Fang Hsien, 
woodlands, alt. 1300-2000 m., May 30 and September 1907 (No. 
2384; climber 3-6 m.; flowers greenish-white, fruit purple); same lo- 
cality, May 26, 1907 (No. 2383; climber 3-6 m., male flowers white, 
female flowers dull purple and green); without locality, May 1900 
(Veitch Exped. Nos. 648, 648°); without locality, A. Henry (Nos. 5256, 
52568). 
