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longis et 1.5-2.5 em. latis, venis venulisque subtus conspicuis, floribus 
minoribus, pedicellis tenuioribus. 
Western Szech’uan: Mupin, thickets, alt. 1300-1800 m., June 
1908 (No. 2552, type; climber, 2-4 m., flowers orange-yellow); near 
Tachien-lu, thickets, alt. 1300-1600 m., October 1908 (Nos. 1268, 
1268; climber, 2-3 m., fruit scarlet); without precise locality, July 
1903 (Veitch Exped. No. 3134). 
This is a very distinct variety, easily recognized by its narrowly lanceolate leaves 
by the smaller flowers on slender pedicels, and by the narrow, wavy ribs of the 
branches, formed by a corky excrescence; in Nos. 1268* and 3134 the branches 
are dark purple-brown and like those of the type only slightly or not at all ribbed; 
it is common in the warm river valleys in western Szech’uan. 
Schisandra propinqua Hooker f. & Thomson in Hooker f., Fl. Brit. 
Ind. I. 45 (1872).— King in Ann. Bot. Gard. Calcutta, III. 220 (1891).— 
Finet & Gagnepain in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, LII. Mém. IV. 51 (1905); 
Contrib. Fl. As. Or. II. 51 (1907). 
Kadsura propinqua Wallich, Fl. Tent. Nepal. YI. t. 15 (1824). 
Sphaerostema propinquum Blume, Fl. Jav. III. Fam. XII. 16 (Schizandreae) 
(1828). — Hooker f. & Thomson, Fl. Ind. I. 85 (1855). 
A Yunnan: Mengtze, rocks, 1600 m., A. Henry (No. 10719); Szemao, 
' mountains to south and west, alt. 1500-1600 m., A. Henry (Nos. 
11893, 12192). 
No. 10719 in its foliage and smaller flowers shows an approach to the variety 
sinensis from central and western China. 
Schisandra propinqua, var. sinensis Oliver in Hooker's Icon. XVIII. 
t. 1715 (1887). — Diels in Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. 322 (1900). — Pampanini 
in Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. n. ser. XVII. 275 (1910). 
Schizandra propinqua, var. linearis Finet & Gagnepain in Bull. Soc. Bot. 
France, LII. Mém. IV. 51 (1905); Contrib. Fl. As. Or. II. 51 (1907). 
Western Hupeh: Changyang Hsien, on rocks, alt. 600-1000 m., 
July and November, 1907 (No. 485; climber, 1.5-2 m., flowers yellow- 
ish, fruit searlet, leaves marbled with white); without locality, August 
1900 (Veitch Exped. 1304); Ichang and immediate neighborhood, 
A. Henry (Nos. 1544, 3699, 3961, 6219). Western Szech’uan: 
Mupin, rocky places, alt. 1300-1600 m., October 1908 (No. 1070; 
climber, 2-2.3 m., fruit scarlet); Wa-shan, roadsides, alt. 1300 m., 
November 1908 (No. 1268>; climber 2 m., fruit scarlet). 
