CELASTRACEAE. 
EVONYMUS L. 
Determined by Tu. LoesENER and ALFRED REHDER. 
Evonymus Aquifolium Loesener & Rehder, n. sp. 
Frutex 3-metralis, glaberrimus; ramuli hornotini quadrangulati 
angulis subalatis, virides v. basim versus purpurascentes, annotini 
brunnei subangulati, vetustiores grisei plus minusve rimosi. Folia 
persistentia, coriacea, ovata v. ovato-oblonga, subsessilia, basi leviter 
cordata et fere amplexicaulia acuta v. breviter acuminata, inae- 
qualiter sinuato-dentata dentibus manifeste spinosis, margine undulata, 
4-7 em. longa et 2.5-4.5 em. lata, supra obscure luteo-viridia, subtus 
pallidiora, nervis utrinque 6-10 arcuatis ut costa utrinque leviter 
elevatis. Flores non visi. Capsulae solitariae in axillis foliorum superi- 
orum; peduneulus angulatus, 2 cm. longus, v. interdum subnullus; 
pedicellus 3-7 mm. longus, subteres, bracteis rigidis subulatis 2-3 mm. 
longis suffultus; capsula depresso-globosa, apice impressa, 4-loba lobis 
dorso rotundatis, viridis, 8-10 mm. alta et 12-15 mm. diam.; semina 
purpurea, 1-2 in quoque loculo, arillo aurantiaco partim tantum m- 
voluta, circiter 10 mm. longa. 
Western Szech'uan: Wa-shan, cliffs, rare, alt. 2200 m., Novem- 
ber 1908 (No. 1366). 
De : s ds . It is most nearly 
rulntod to Br Guat Pomsiet fee tone atk mening 2 EE 
description, differs in its terete branches, narrower, reticulate and thicker leaves 
—< and remotely dentate, narrower at the base and borne on petioles 3-5 mm. 
ong. 
Evonymus grandiflora Wallich in Roxburgh, Fl. Ind. ed. Carey I. 
404 (1824); Tent. Fl. Nepal. 41, t. 30 (1824); Pl. As. Rar. III. 35, t. 
254 (1832). — Lawson in Hooker f., Fl. Brit. Ind. I. 608 (1875). — 
Franchet in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, XXXIII. 454 (1886); Pl. Delavay. 
130 (1889). — Loesener in Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. 439 (1900); 
452 (1902). — Schneider, Ill. Handb. Laubholzk. II. 175, fig. 112 ù 
114 k (1907). 
Lophopetalum grandiflorum Arnott in Ann. Nat. Hist. III. 151 (1839). 
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