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minute puberula, tandem glabra Incida, subtus glauca puberula, 

 juniora appresse caesio-sericea, 8-17 cm. longa, 3-10 cm. lata; nervi 

 utrinque 4-6, alterni v. paribus 1-2 infimis suboppositis, irregulariter 

 ascendentes, supra vix prominentes; nervuli transversi obscuri si cut 

 reticulatio; glandulae in axillis nervorum parvae supra haud bulbosae; 

 petiolus 2-3 cm. longus. Paniculae axillares v. laterales e ramulis 

 junioribus, inflorescentiam conspicuam terminalem saepe simulantes, 

 foliis parvis admixtis, 10-15 cm. longae, ramosae, ramis di-trichotomis ; 

 pedunculus teres, glaber, 4-6 cm. longus; rami angulati; pedicelli 

 breves, filiformes, 2-4 mm. longi; perianthii tubus infundibularis, 

 glaber; lobi ovati, 1-2 mm. longi, intus albo-sericei, refiexi et cito 

 decidui; stamina minuta, ordinis I. et II. circa 1 mm. longa, antheris 

 subrotundis et filamentis subglabris, ordinis III. pauUo longiora, 

 magis puberula, glandulis 2 magnis reniformibus prope basim fila- 

 mentorum, ordinis IV. staminodia cordata, subsessilia, circa 0.5 mm. 

 longa, sericea; ovarium subglobosum, stylo erecto, stigmate capitato. 

 Drupa globosa, 7-8 mm. diam., glabra, pedicello incrassato et peri- 

 anthii tubo reflexo insidens. 



Western Hupeh: north and south of Ichang, woods and open 

 country, alt. 300-1000 m., common, June and August 1907 (No. 

 2226) ; Patung Hsien, woodlands, alt. 300-1000 m., August 1907 (No. 

 3709); without locality (Veitch Exped. Nos. 464, 836, 1944). 



I also place with this A, Henry's No. 3936 collected at Nanto and on moun- 

 tains to northward, identified by Hemsley as C. parthenoxylon Meissner. 



This is the common Camphor tree of western Hupeh where it is always spoken 

 of as the " Chang shu," though I never heard of any camphor being prepared from 

 its wood. It grows to a medium height and has a thick trunk clothed with smooth 

 grey bark, and an oval or flattened wide head. The wood is very fragrant, greenish- 

 white and brown and is largely used in making furniture. A pictiire of this tree 

 will be found under No. 494 of the collection of my photographs and also in my 

 Vegetation of Western China, No. 165. E. H. W- 



Here may be added a note on a Cinnamomum not collected during the Arnold 

 Arboretum Expeditions. 



Cinnamomum pedunculatum C. G. Nees, var. angustifolium Hemsley in Jour. 

 Linn. Soc. XXVI. 373 (1891). 



Exped 



ALSEODAPHNE Nees, 



Alseodaphne omeiensis Gamble, n. sp. 



Arbor ad 12 m. alta, ramulis teretibus pallidis conspicue lenticel- 

 latis. Folia alterna, coriacea, oblanceolata, apice abrupte acuminata, 

 basi longe attenuata; supra opaca, olivacea, subtus glaucescentia, 



