RUTACEAE. — SKIMMIA 139 



lato-oblonga, 5 mm. longa et circiter 2 mm. lata, ea florum femineorum 

 angustiora, magis erecta; stamina plerumque petalis subaequilonga, 

 filamentis subulatis glabris, antheris ovoideis, in floribus femineis 

 sterilia, multo minora, ovarium subaequantia; ovarium globosum, 

 1.5-2 mm. longum; stylus glaber, circiter 1 mm. longus, stigmate 

 capitato; in floribus masculis pistillum abortivum, claviforme v. 

 subulatum, 2 mm. longum. Fructus purpureo-niger, globosus, 

 circiter 10 mm. diam.; semina albida, subtrigona, 7 mm. longa. 



Western Szech'uan: Wa-shan, woods, alt. 1600-2600 m., June 

 and October 1908 (No. 1054, type); Mupin, woods, alt. 2300-2600 m., 

 June 1908 (No. 2597); south-east of Taehien-Iu, forests, alt. 2600- 

 3000 m., September 1910 (No. 4129); west and near Wen-ch'uan 

 Hsien, woods, alt. 1600-2300 m., June and October (No. 2595); 

 without locality, woods, May 1904 (Veitch Exped. No. 4064). 

 Eastern Szech'uan: Wushan Hsien, A. Henry (No. 5608). 

 Western Hupeh: Fang Hsien, on rocks beneath Silver Fir, alt. 

 2000-3000 m., May 18, 1907 (No. 2596); without locahty, A. Henry / 

 (No. 6888). Yunnan: Yuanch'ang, alt. 1600 m., A. Henry (No. 

 L??2?); Mengtze, mountains south and east, forests, alt. 1600-2000 

 m., i. Henry (Nos. 10469;'ll069)''r Feng-chen-lin, forests, alt. 2300 

 m., A. Henry (No. 112^. India: Sikkim, alt. 2300-3300 m., J. 

 D, Hooker (in Herb. Gray). 



This species is a very common undershrub in the forests of western China, 

 niore especially in rocky places where it thrives in dense shade. The black fruit 

 distinguishes it from all other species. As known to us this Skimmia is everywhere 

 a small shrub, rarely one metre tall, but Henry describes it in Yunnan as a bush 

 or small tree up to five metres tall. This statement agrees with that respecting 

 the Sikkim plant. The leaves of the Yunnan plant are larger than those of the 

 bzech'uan plant. In Nos. 4064, 2595, the leaves are narrow, long acuminate and 

 much narrowed to the base, and in No. 2595 the flowers are unusually large. 



The existence in Sikkim of a Skimmia with black fruit has been known since 

 Griffith's time and that region would appear to constitute the western limit of 

 the range of this species. 



Here may be added a note on another Chinese species not collected during the 

 Arnold Arboretum Expeditions. 



Skimmia Fortunei Masters in Gard. Chron. ser. 3, V. 520, fig. 9 (1889). 

 Shimmia japonica Lindley in Lindley & Paxton, Fl Gard. II. 56, fig. 163 

 (non Thunberg) (1851-1852); in Gard. Chron. 1852, 183. —Fortune in 

 Gard. Chron. 1852, 739, 789. — Hooker in Bot. Mag. LXXIX. t. 719 (1853), 

 excludendis synonjmiis. — Engler in Engler & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 

 III. Abt. 4, 181 (pro parte) (1897). — Pritzel in Bot. Jahrh. XXIX. 424 

 (1900). 



Western Szech'uan: Mount Omei, June and October 1904 (Veitch Exped. 

 >*o. 4956); same locality, Hugh ScaUan, 



