RHAMNACEAE. 



Determined by Camillo Schneider.' 



PALroRUS Mill. 



Paliurus orientaUs Hemsley in Kew Bull. Misc. Inform. 1894 387 

 (pro parte maxima) .— Pritzel in Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. 457 (1900). — 

 Schneider, III. Handb. Lauhholzk. II. 260, fig. 182 c (1909). -Pam- 

 panini in Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. n. ser. XVII. 425 (1910). 



7 PaUurm Irwidus CarriSre in Rev. Hort. 1866, 380 (nomen nudum)- 

 ? Paliurus australis, var. orientalis Franchet, PL Delavay. 13.2 U»»y^ 



Western Hupeh: north and south of Ichang, open country, alt. 

 600-1100 m., common, June and September 1907 (No. io5; slender 

 tree 3-6 m. tall); Fang Hsien, June 1901 (Veitch Exped without 

 number, in Herb. Hofmuseum, Vienna) ; without locality, ^ay lyui 

 (Veitch Exped. No. 2103); without locality, A. Henry ^No. b^7y;. 

 Eastern Szech'uan: Taning Hsien, roadsides, alt. 160-600 m^ 

 common June 1910 (No. 4630; slender tree 6-12 m. tall, girth 0^^ 

 0.6 m., immature fruit white); Wushaa Hsien, mountains, J^ne lyou ^ 

 (Veitch Exped. No. 634); same locality, A. Henry (No. 7205); Cheng- 

 kou Ting, P. Farges. Shensi : " Tciuz Sien," 1893, G. G^raldt. 



The type of Franchefs var. orientalis is Delavay's No. 239 from Yunnan in 

 woods near Tali, which I have not yet seen. Hemsley says: F°l^^"^f ^^ 

 usque ad 5 poll, longa et 3 poll, lata, sed in specimimbus Delavayan.s mmora. He 

 cites Henry's No. 7205 from Szech'uan, Wushan Hmen, =*? ^ F°f s No^ 32o f rom 

 Kwangtung. Unfortunately I could not compare Wilson's spe"mens w,th iran^ 

 chefs type, but they agree exactly with Hemsley's desenption- I thmk, tnere 

 fore, that Franchefs v^. orientalis may belong to P simcus Schneider, as all 

 specimens I have seen from Yunnan have short petioles. . , ... ^j^ 



Wilson's No. 634 is a poor specimen with very young leaves, which like tne 



' Owing to Mr. Schneider's departure for south-western China he has bee^ un- 

 able to settle some questions in regard to a few doubtful «Pe=™ n°f ' not 

 their determination to us. We have added a f-^^^^dera'dTH Wilson. 



« The specimen collected in southern Shensi by D-ivid and by Franchet referr^ 

 {Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris. s6r. 2, V. 223 iPl. David. I. ^^^^^^^l^^ ^: ^^ 

 doubtless belongs here, 



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