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A colloquial name for E. glauca in Hupeh is " Ch'ou-la-shu " (stinking Ash 

 tree). It is hardy in England and promises to succeed in the Arnold Arboretum. 



From the description we strongly suspect that E. sutchuenensis Dode also 

 belongs here. 



Evodia officinaUs Dode in Bull Soc. BoL France, LV. 703 (1908). 



Evodia rutaecarpa Pampanini in Nuov. Giorn, Bot, Ital. n. ser. XVIII. 169 

 (non Jussieu) (1911). 



Western Hupeh: north and south of Ichang^ thickets and 

 margins of woods, alt. 600-1100 m., July and October 1907 (No. 366; 

 bush 2-4 m. tall, flowers greenish-yellow) ; Changyang Hsien, thickets, 

 alt. 600-1100 m., July 1907 (No. 366^; bush 2-4 m. tall); Patung 

 Hsien, thickets, alt. 600-1000 m., September 1907 (No. 251; bush 

 3-5 m. tall); Changlo Hsien, woodlands, alt. 1000 m., July 1905 (No. 

 3577; small bushy tree, 5 m., flowers greenish-white); without locahty, 

 June and October 1900 (Veitch Exped. No. 1309); Ichang and imme- 

 diate neighbourhood, A. Henry (No. 1676); without locahty, A. 



Henry (Nos. 6199, 6569, 6136% 6199% 2077); "Monti di Fan-sien," 

 alt. 300 m., August 1906, C. Silvestri (No. 3339). Western Sze- 



ch'uan: Mt. Omei, E, Faher (No. 26). 



In western Hupeh and eastern Szech'uan this is a very common shrub in thickets 

 and along the margins of woods. The long narrow leaves with numerous remote 

 pairs of leaflets and the much more slender branches distinguish this species from 

 E, rutaecarpa Bentham. 



Dode quotes from Pere Farges the name " hou^ng pel chou " for this shrub. 

 This name signifies " yellow bark tree " and is very generally applied in central 

 and western China to Phellodendron chinense Schneider, and P. sachallnense Sargent, 

 the bark of which is greatly valued in Chinese medicine. We never heard in 

 China of the bark of Evodia officinalis Dode, having any officinal value, but the 

 fruit is used as a drug and the shrub is known as the Chu-yii, Wu-chu-yu and 

 La-tzu-shu. 



Evodia Bodinieri Dode in Bull Soc, BoL France, s^r. 4, LV. 703 

 (1908). 



Western Hupeh: Hsing-shan Hsien, side of stream, alt. 600- 

 1000 m., December 1907 (No. 791, fruit; bush 2.5). Western 

 Szech'uan: Kiating Fu, roadside thickets, alt. 300-1000 m., Sep- 

 tember and November 1908, November 1910 (Nos. 3572, 9, fruit, 

 3573? Sy 4568, fruit; bush 1-3 m. tall, flowers white, fragrant, fruit 

 reddish); Hungyah Hsien, thickets, alt. 300-1000 m., September 5, 

 1908 (No. 3573, <?, bush 1-2 m. tall, flowers white). 



In western Szech'uan this is a very common low-level shrub but in Hupeh it 

 is comparatively rare. Our specimens agree very well with Dode's short descrip- 

 tion which is based on a specimen from Kueichou province. 



