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fere aequiformia, ovata, basi cuneata, integra, vix obliqua, apice 
longe acuminata, margine a medio ad apicem utrinque spinis 2 late 
triangularibus sinuato-dentata, circiter 6: 2.5 cm. magna, infima paullo 
minora, terminalia paullo majora (ad 8:3.2 cm.). Racemi ad 14 cm. 
longi, satis densiflori, eorum bracteae satis parvae, late triangulares, 
breviter acutae, circiter 1:0.8 cm. magnae; flores extus rubescentes, 
circiter 6 mm. diam.; pedicelli 2-3 mm. longi, bracteis ovatis paullo v. 
vix longiores; sepala tantum 6, externa ovato-oblonga, internis simili- 
bus breviora; petala late oblonga, sepalis aequilonga, apice bifida, basi 
brevissime unguiculata, glandulifera; stamina petalis breviora, nor- 
malia; filamenta antheris paullo longiora; ovaria ovulis 2 sessilibus 
instructa. Fructus nondum vidi. 
Western Szech'uan: Hungya Hsien, red sandstone cliffs, alt. 
1100 m., September 1908 (No. 2881). 
Mahonia nitens is a very distinct species, resembling in its shining leaves M. 
nepalensis De Candolle which, however, belongs to a different group of this section. 
Mahonia Fortunei Fedde, in Bot. Jahrb. XXXI. 130 (Monog. Ma- 
honia) (1901). 
Berberis Fortunei Lindley in Jour. Hort. Soc. Lond. I. 231, 300, fig. (1846). 
Western Szech’uan: Yachou Fu, woodlands, alt. 500-800 m., 
September 1908 (No. 2882; bush 0.60-1.30 m. tall, flowers yellow). 
Tao-thuashan-shu, 1891, A. von Rosthorn (No. 144, ex Fedde). Hupeh: 
1888, A. Henry (No. 3117). 
This is one of the most distinct species of this genus. The type was collected 
by Fortune (No. 32) near Shanghai, in gardens, 
CONSPECTUS SPECIERUM ASIATICARUM ADHUC COGNITARUM.! 
Fructus (v. ovaria) stylis distinctis coronati. 
Jugum infimum mininum foliolorum basi petioli valde approximatum. 
Foliola dentibus utrinque non plus quam 10 instructa. 
Nervi primarii foliolorum subtus distincte elevati. 
Foliola supra viridia, sed obscura, haud distincte nitentia. 
Foliola ovata v. late ovata, v. in var. Bealei subrotunda, spinis utrinque 
40-7 ee CUORE US Du o 1. M. japonica. 
Foliola ovato-lanceolata, spinis utrinque (5-)7-9 . . . 2. M. flavida. 
Foliola lanceolata, spinis utrinque 4-6 . . . . . . 3. M. Zemanii. 
! Of Mahonia trifurca Loudon, Encycl. Pl. Suppl. II. 1346 (1842); Fedde, 
l. c. 125 (Berberis trifurca Lindley, in Paxton, Flow. Gard. III. p. 57, fig. 258 
[1852/3]) I have not yet seen flowers or fruits, 
