HAMAMELIDACEAE. — SINOWILSONIA 429 
stellato-pilosi, mox glabrescentes, annotini et vetustiores pallide 
cinereo-brunnei, vix lenticellati; gemmae breviter stipitatae, stellato- 
tomentosae, eperulatae. Folia membranacea, obovata v. obovato- 
oblonga, breviter acuminata, basi rotundata v. truncata, inaequaliter 
sinuato-denticulata dentibus saepe mucroniformibus, 7-14 cm. longa 
et 3.5-8.5 cm. lata, supra laete viridia, initio sparsissime fasciculato- 
pilosa, mox glabrescentia costa media densius fasciculato-pilosa ex- 
cepta, subtus pallidiora, ad nervos dense fasciculato-pilosa ceterum 
fere glabra, nervis utrinsecus 6-10 subtus elevatis trabeculis elevatis 
conjunctis; petioli dense fasciculato-tomentosi,4—-8 mm. longi. Racemi 
in ramis 2-3-foliatis terminales, erecti 4-6 cm. longi, pedunculo 1-1.5 
em. longo fasciculato-piloso insidentes; rhachis laxe stellato-tomentosa; 
pedicelli 1-2 mm. longi, sparse stellato-pilosi v. glabri, bracteis lan- 
ceolatis pedicellum vix aequantibus sparsi stellato-pubescentes cito 
caducis suffulti et bracteolis 2 similibus sed minoribus cito caducis 
instituti; calycis tubus turbinatus circiter 1 mm. longus, glaber, lobi 
oblongo-ovati, obtusi, apice plerumque sparse stellato-pilosi, vix 1.5 
mm. longi, decidui; petala subulata sepalis paullo breviora; stamina 
sepalis subaequilonga, antheris ovoideis fere sessilibus; styli revoluti, 
stamina superantes. Capsula ovoidea, basibus stylorum erectis coro- 
nata, 1.5 em. longa, obscure brunnea, lenticellata, paullo infra medium 
vestigiis calycis circumdata; semina oblongo-ovoidea, circiter 1 cm. 
longa, apicem versus attenuata, nitida, atrobrunnea, basi hilo trans- 
verso albido exsculpto notata. 
Western Hupeh: Fang Hsien, margin of oak woods, rare, alt. 600- 
1500 m., May 25 and November 1907 (No. 565). 
SINOWILSONIA Hemsl. 
Sinowilsonia Henryi Hemsley in Hooker's Icon. XXIX. t. 2817 
(1906). — Fedde, Rep. Nov. Sp. V. 265 (1908). — Bean in Kew Bull. 
Misc. Inform. XXII. 355 (1909). — Pampanini in Nuov. Giorn. Bot. 
Ital. n. ser. XVIII. 120 (1911). — Schneider, Ill. Handb. Laubholzk. 
II. 957, fig. 589 (1912). 
Corylopsis macrostachya Pampanini in. Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. n. ser. XVII. 
286, fig. 7 (1910). 
Western Hupeh: Fang Hsien, side of streams, alt. 1000-1300 m. 
May 25, 1907 (No. 584; bush 6-8 m. tall, wood white and heavy, 
