ANACARDIACEAE. — COTINU3 175 



Western Szecli'uan; Chien-chi Hsien, arid valleys, alt. 1000 m., July 1903 

 (Veitch Exped. No. 3367). Yunnan: Mengtze, plains, alt, 1500 m., A, Henry 

 (Nos. 9600j 9600^); Lunan, A. Henry (No^9000^); Szemao, mountains west, alt. 

 1600 m., A. Henry (No. 11913). ~'^ 



This is a very rare tree in Szech'uan where it is confined to the arid river-valleys 

 in the southwestern part of the province. In Yunnan it is common and is one of 

 the handsomest trees found there. It grows from 15-20 m. tall, with a straight 

 trunk and medium sized branches which form a shapely oval or flattened head. 

 The leaves are coriaceous, shining and dark green; and the fruit is red and about the 

 size of an ordinary pea. In adult trees the shoots are commonly quite glabrous, 

 and specimens before us agree exactly with CoUett & Hemsley's description of 

 P. coccinea and they themselves suspected it might prove identical with P. wein- 

 tnannifolia. 



COTINUS Adaas. 



Cotinus coggygria Scopoli, Fl Cam, ed. 2, L 220 (1772). 

 Engler in De Candolle, Monog. Phaner. IV. 350 (1883). — Diels in 

 Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. 432 (1900). — Schneider, III Handb. LaubholzL 

 n. 146, fig. 97 a-g (1907). 



Rhus Cotinus Linnaeus, Spec, 267 (1753). — De Candolle, Prodr. II. 67 

 (1825). — Hooker f., Fl. Brit. Ind. II. 9 (1876). — Franchet in Nouv. 

 Arch. Mus. Paris, s^r. 2, V. 230 (PL David. 1. 78) (1883). — Hemsley 

 in Jour, Linn. Soc. XXII. 146 (1886). — Pavolini in Nuov. Giom. Bot. 

 Ital. n. ser. XV. 409 (1908). 



Rhus simplicifolia Salisbury, Prodr. 170 (1796). 



Rhus ohovatifolia Stokes, Bot. Mat. Med. II. 159 (1812). 



Rhus laevis WalHch apud G. Don, Gen. Syst. II. 69 (1832). 



Cotinus Coccygea K. Koch, Dendr. I. 582 (1869). 



Cotinus coggygria, a. laevis Engler in De Candolle, Monog. Phaner. IV. 350 

 (1883). — Pampanini in Nuov. Giom. Bot. lUxl. n. ser. XVII. 416 (1910). 



We have seen no Chinese specimens referable to the typical glabrous C. cog- 

 mria Scopoli, and Pampanini's specimen probably belong to the following form 

 which is fairly common all over the temperate parts of China. 



Cotinus coggygria, var. pubescens Engler in BoL Jahrb. I. 403 

 (1881); in De Candolle, Monog, Phaner, IV. 351 (1883). — Schneider, 



III- Handb. LauhhoUk. II. 146 (1907). 



'»«« i:otinus Maxima 

 (1890). 



Western Hupeh : Ichang and the neighborhood, alt. 30-1300 m., 

 common, April 1907 (No. 87; bush 1-2 m.); same locality, April 1900 > 

 (Veitch Exped. No. 221); without locality, A. Henry (No. 1627). 

 Szech'uan: without locality, E. Faber (No. 114). Shensi: north- 

 west of Hanchunff Fu 1 91 n. W. Purdom (No. 364) : " Huo-kia-zaez," 



