SABIACEAE, — SABIA 



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and September 1908 (No. 860; climber 2 m., flowers greenish, fruit 



blue) . 



Our specimens agree with Diel's description except that the sepals are oval 

 or ovate and obtuse instead of triangular and the leaves are slightly broader. 

 The flowers which were not described by Dials are borne in from 3-6-flowered co- 

 rymbs, the petals are oval and obtuse, greenish and about 5 mm. long; the stamens 

 about as long as the petals. 



Sabia Schumanniana, var. pluriflora Rehder & Wilson, n. var. 

 A typo recedit praecipue cymis 6-20-floris. Sepala triangulari- 

 ovata, acuta; petala interdum acutiuscula; stamina plerumque 



petalis paullo longiora. 



Western Hupeh: Hsing-shan Hsien, thickets, alt. 600-1300 m., 

 May 6 and July 1907 (No. 2534, type; scandent bush, 1-2 m., flowers 

 brownish-chocolate) ; without locality. A, Henry (Nos. 5421, 6114), 

 Eastern Szech'uan: without locality, A. Henry (No. 5421''). 



This variety resembles in its many-flowered cymes S. pam^ora Wallich and 

 S. lanceolata Colebrooke, but is easily distinguished from these species by the larger 

 flowers with oval, obtuse or obtusish petals and by the veins of the leaves divergmg 

 at acute angles. 



Sabia Schumanniana, var. longipes Rehder & Wilson, n. var. 

 A typo recedit foliis majoribus ad 14 cm. longis oblongo-lanceolatis 

 basi cuneatis, inflorescentia cum pedunculo 6-9 cm. longo 9-18 cm. 



longa, floribus purpurascentibus. 



Western Szech'uan: Chin-ting-shan, thickets, alt. 1300 m., 

 May 22, 1908 (No. 2529; climber, 3 m., flowers greenish-purple). 



This variety differs from the type chiefly in its larger leaves and much 

 elongated peduncles. 



Sabia puberula Rehder & Wilson, n. sp. 



Frutex scandens, 0.5-2 m. altus; ramuli homotini glabn, aiinotmi 



!mm 



FoUa decidua, oblongo-lanceolata v. ovato-oblonga v. elhptico- 

 oblonga, acuminata, basi late cuneata v. rotundata, margine scanosa, 

 minute eroso-undulata, 6-9 cm. longa et 2-4 cm. lata, utrmque 

 glabra, supra obscure viridia, subtus palhdiora, reticulata, ner^^s 

 utrinsecus 5-6 sub angulo acuto divergentibus ; petioU imtio plerumque 

 puberuli, demum glabri, supra canaliculati, 0.6-1 cm. longi. llores 

 fusci, in cymis axiUaribus 3-8-floris, simul cum foliis bene evolutis, 

 pedunculi graciles, sparse villosuli, 1-2.5 cm. longi; pedicelh 5-» mm. 

 longi, puberuli; bracteae minutac, caducae; sepala semi-orbicularia, 



