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apice satis subito acuminata acumine 1-1.5 cm. longo, satis indis- 

 tincte breviter dentata, basim versus integra, toto circuitu angustis- 

 sime cartilagineo-marginata, supra viridia, sublucida, glabra, subtus 

 vix pallidiora, etiam sublucida, juvenilia ad nervos sparse pilosa, 

 matura tantum in axillis nervorum utrinsecus 4-7 campylotroporum 

 leviter barbulata, 6-13 cm. longa et 4-5 cm. lata v. in inflorescentiis 

 angustiora, lanceolata; petioli glabri, supra anguste sulcati, 10-18 

 mm. longi. Inflorescentia axillaris, fere semper distincte late cymoso- 

 paniculata axi centrali ad 11 cm. longa, ramis infirais ad 4 cm. longis, 

 puberula; flores virides(?), glabri v. sparse puberuli, pentameri, 

 dioeci, feminei nondum visi, 2-8 fasciculati; pedicelli fructiferi 2-4 

 mm. longi, glabri v. tenuissime pilosi; sepala late-lanceolata, sensim 

 acuminata, receptaculo subduplo longiora; petala sepalis 1.5 breviora, 

 obovato-oblonga, apice obtusa, basi breve unguiculata, in sicco 

 nigrescentia, staminibus sublongiora; antherae albo-flavidae, apice 

 levissime apiculatae; ovaria perparva, stylis 3 contiguis coronata. 

 Fructus saturate ruber, obovato-globosus, circiter 6-7 mm. crassus; 

 semina immatura 2-3, obovato-oblonga, dorso distincte sulcata. 



Western Hupeh: Patung Hsien, cliffs, alt. 300-600 m., July and 

 October (No. 422, type) ; Changyang Hsien, side of streams, alt. 300- 

 600 m., June 1907 (No. 3270); without locality, August 1900 (Veitch 

 Exped. No. 1614). Yunnan: Szemao, mountains to west and east, 

 forests, alt. 1800-2000 m., A, Henry (Nos. 12040, 12040^). 



Dr. Henry^s specimens differ only in their somewhat more distinctly crenately 

 serrate leaves and smaller fruits. This is a very remarkable new species with its 

 large paniculate inflorescence and its extremely verrucose branches. By these 

 characters it is easily distinguished from the related R. nipalensis Wallich and /2. 

 ionkinensis Pitard. 



Rhamnus Hemsleyanus Schneider in Notizhl. Bot. GarL Berlin, 

 1908, 78; III Handb, Laubholzk. II, 270, figs. 197 o-p, 199 m-n (1909). 



Ad descriptionem addenda: gemmae perparvae, obtusissimae. 

 Fructus maturus ut videtur niger, obovato-rotundus, ad 5 mm. longus, 

 4 mm. crassus; semina 3, purpurascentia, obovata, dorso impressa, 

 tantum ima ba^ sulco brevi vix aperto instructa, ventre carinata. 



Western Szech'uan: Mupin, woodlands, alt. 2000-3000 m., 

 June 1908 (No. 3324; bush 2-6 m., flowers greenish) ; Mt. Omei, June 

 1904 (Veitch Exped. No. 4780); without precise locahty, alt. 1800 m., 

 May 1904 (Veitch Exped. No. 3342). Eastern Szech'uan: Wu- 

 shan Hsien, A. Henry (No. 5677, type). Western Hupeh: with- 

 out locahty, A. Henry (No. 7462). 



