ANACARDIACEAE. — RHUS 181 



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alt. 1000 m., May 1907 (No. i6o^; thin tree 6-10 m. tall); without 

 locality, A. Henry (No. 6349). Chekiang: vicinity of Ningpo, 

 1908, D. Macgregor; "Tang-si," June 1907, F. N, Meyer (No. 443). 

 Fokien: without precise locality, April to June 1905, Dunn's 

 Exped. (Herb, Bot. Gard. Hongkong, Nos. 2525, 2528). Korea: 

 Fusan, temple grounds, September 6, 1903, C. S. Sargent; Quel- 

 paert, October 1906, U. Faurie (No. 485); same locality, May | 

 1908, June 1909, 1910, Taquet (Nos. 667, 3120, 4173); Korean archi- 

 pelago, 1863, R. Oldham (No. 187); Tsu-sima Island, 1859, C. Wilford. 



This Sumach is common on the Lushan mountains in Kiangsi, but is rare in 

 western Hupeh where the western limit of the range of the species is found. 

 Usually it is a large bush but it often forms a slender tree; the number of leaflets 

 which have very prominent veins varies from 3 to 13. This species does not yield 

 varnish and has no economic value as far as we know. 



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Rhus vemiciflua 



Rhus Vernix Linnaeus, Spec, 265 (1753), quoad specimma japomca. — 



Thunberg, Fl. Jap. 121 (1784). ,. ... 



Rhus vernidfera De CandoIIe, Prodr. 11. 68 (1825), excludendis specimmi- 

 bus nepalensibus. — Miquel in Ann, Mus. Lugd,-Bat. II. 84 (1866); FroZ. 

 Fl. Jap, 16 (1866). — Hance in Jour, Bot. XX. 259 (1882). — Engler m 

 De Candolle, Monog. Phaner. IV. 398 (1883). — Hemsley m Jour.lAnn. 

 Soc, XXIII. 148 (1886). — Maximowicz in Act, Hort. Petrop. XL 110 

 (1889).— Sargent in Garden & Forest, VI. 162 (1893); For. Fl Jap. 33 

 (1894). — Shirasawa, Icon. Ess. For. Jap. I. 94, t. 57, fig. 17-30 (1900).— 

 Diels in Bot. Jahrh. XXIX. 433 (1900). — De Wildeman, Icon, HorL 

 Thenens. VI. 1, t. 201 (1906). 



Rhus Kaempferi Sweet, Hort. Brit. 97 (1827). 



Rhus succedanea, var. Umalaica Hooker f., Fl. BHt. Ind. II. 12 (187b). 



Rhus vernidfera, var. Silvesirii Pampanini m Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. n. ser. 

 XVII. 416 (1910); XVIII. 173 (1911). 



Western Hupeh: north and south of Ichang, mountain slopes 

 and valleys, wild and cultivated, alt. 1000-2500 m., June and Sep- 

 tember 1907 (No. 123, in part; tree 8-20 m. tall, girth 0.6-2 m.) ; Hsmg- 

 shan Hsien, woodlands, alt. 1000-2500 m., abundant, June 4 and 

 September 1907 (No. 123, in part; tree 6-15 m. tall, ^rth 1-2 m^ 

 flowers greenish-white); Changyang Hsien, woodlands, alt. 1000- 

 2500 m., abundant, June 1907 (No. 123, in part; tree 10-16 m., girth 

 1-2 m.); Changlo Hsien, woods, alt. 1300-2500 m., June 1907 (No. 

 123, in part; tree 10-20 m. tall, girth 1-2 m.); Patung Hsien, wood- 



^ First mentioned by Kaempfer {Amoen, Exot. 791, t. 792 [1712]) aa "Sitz" 



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