382 WILSON EXPEDITION TO CHINA 
ENUMERATIO SPECIERUM ASIATICARUM. 
Sectio Longibracteatae Fedde, in Bot. Jahrb. XXXI. 78 (Monog. Mahonia) (1901). 
To this section belong all species known from Asia and also one from the Pacific 
North America (M. nervosa [Pursh] Nuttall). 
1. Mahonia japonica De Candolle, Syst. II. 22 (1821). 
Ilex Japonica Thunberg, Fl. Jap. 77 (1784). 
Berberis japonica R. Brown in Tuckey, Congo Exped. App.. 22 (1816). 
Szech’uan: Hants’ao-kan, Nanch’uan, anno 1891, A. von Rosthorn (No. 174 
ex Fedde); Huang-hua-shan, Nanch’uan, A. von Rosthorn (No. 1213 ex Fedde). 
I have not seen a specimen of a wild plant of this species, which seems to be 
very nearly related to M. nepalensis, from which it differs in its opaque, not shin- 
ing leaves rather paler below. Fedde says, that the bracts are acuminate and as 
long as the pedicels, but in my specimens of var. Bealei (Fortune) Fedde the bracts 
are only half as long as the pedicels and are not acuminate. Koehne (Deutsche 
Dendr. 165) states, that the ovaries of M. japonica contain about four ovules, while 
in M. nepalensis there are about seven. I could find only three in var. Bealei and 
also three, or rarely four, in many specimens of wild plants of M. nepalensis. 
2. Mahonia flavida Schneider, n. sp. 
Frutex ad 2 m. altus. Folia 7-juga, ad 50 em. longa, ima basi petioli stipulis 2 
filiformibus spinescentibus instructa, jugo infimo multo minore basi petioli valde 
approximato; foliola circiter 5 cm. inter se distantia, coriacea, utrinque leviter 
nitentia, subtus paullo pallidiora, nervis primariis elevatis laxe reticulatis, late- 
ralia (terminalia nondum vidi), ovato-lanceolata, obliqua, basi parte exteriore 
rotunda, apice sensim acuminata, margine fere a basi breviter spinoso-dentata 
dentibus utrinque 4-8, superiora ad 13.5:3.5-42 cm. magna, inferiora breviora, 
ovata, infima quasi stipulaeformia, ad 3.5 cm. longa. Racemi ad 19 cm. longi, 
satis densiflori, basi bracteis acuminato-triangularibus ad 2.5 cm. longis instructi; 
flores flavi, circiter 6-7 mm. diam.; bracteae lanceolatae, acuminatae, pedicellis ad 
5 mm. longis fere longiores; sepala 3 externa minima, late ovato-cordata, 3 media 
late oblonga, 3 interna obovato-oblonga, mediis longiora; petala obovata, sepalis 
internis paullo v. vix minora basi brevissime contracta, glandulifera; stamina 
petalis paullo breviora, filamenta antheris paullo longiora, apice apiculata; ovaria 
distincte stylosa, ovulis 3 sessilibus instructa. Fructus ignoti. 
Yunnan: Mengtze, alt. 2000 m., woods, A. Henry (No ; 
This species seems most nearly related to M. japoniee ESSE dolle and M. 
nepalensis De Candolle, but differs from both these species in the shape of the 
leaflets, which are not as shining as those of M. nepalensis and not dull like those of 
M. japonica. Possibly it might be considered a variety of M. nepalensis, and there 
is a specimen from the Khasia Hills collected by Ward (in Herb. Hof-Museum, 
Vienna), which only differs from this species in its shorter leaflets and in the shorter 
bracts of the pedicels; the filaments also are not dentate. But I believe that all 
the Chinese forms, referred to M. nepalensis by Hemsley and other authors, repre- 
sent different species, : 
3. Mahonia Zemanii Schneider. See p. 378. 
4. Mahonia nepalensis De Candolle, Syst. II. 21 (1821). 
Berberis nepalensis Sprengel, Syst. II. 120 (1825). 
