CELASTRACEAE. 



Determined by Alfred Rehder and E. H. Wilson. 



CELASTRUS L. 



Celastrus angulata Maximowicz in Bull Acad. Sci, SL Pitersbourg, 

 s^r. 3, XXVII. 455 (1881); in Mel Biol XI. 199 (1881). — Loesener 

 in BoL Jahrh. XXIX. 446 (1900), XXX. 470 (1902). — Pampanini in 

 Nuov. Giorn. BoL Ital n. ser. XVII. 106 (1910). 



Celastrus latif alius Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXIII. 123 (1886). — Oliver 

 in Hooker's Icon. XXIII. t. 2206 (1892). 



Western Hupeh: north and south of Ichang, thickets, alt. 600- 

 1300 m., June and October 1907 (No. 364; climber 3-6 m.); same lo- 

 cality, April and August 1900 (Veitch Exped. No. 467); Changyang 

 Hsien, thickets, alt. 1300 m., June and November 1907 (No. 753*; 

 climber 6 m., flowers greenish-white, fruit yellow, seed vermilion) ; 

 Fang Hsien, thickets, alt. 1300 m., November 1907 (Nos. 364% 753; 

 scandent shrub 6 m., fruit yellow) ; Nanto and mountains to northward, 

 A, Henry (No. 3883); without locality, A, Henry (Nos. 5925% 2084, 

 3405); " Ma-pan-scian,*' alt. 1000 m., May 1907, C. Silvestri (No. 

 1336). Western Szech'uan: west and near Wen-ch'uan Hsien, 

 alt. 600-1300 m., June 1908 (No. 364*'; scandent shrub 6 m.); Nan- 

 ch'uan, A. von Rosthorn (No. 790). 



This scandent shrub with large and handsome leaves makes a tangled mass 6 m. 

 or more high and as much through; it is very abundant in western Hupeh and Sze- 

 ch'uan. 



A picture of this plant will be found under No. 0139 of the collection of Wilson s 

 photographs . 



Celastrus hypoleuca Warburg apud Loesener in BoL Jahrb. XXIX. 

 445 (1900). — Loesener in BoL Jahrb. XXX. 467 (1902). 



ErythTospermum hypoleucum Oliver in Hooker's Icon. XIX. t. 1899 (1889). 

 Celastrus hypoglancus Hemsley in Ann. Bot. IX. 150 (1895). — L^veill^, fl 



Kouy-Tchiou, 69 (1914). 

 Celastrus hypoleunis, forma a gcnuina Loesener in Bot. J ahrh'^^JCXX. 445 (1902). 

 Celastrus hypoleucus, forma j3 argutior Loesener, 1. c. (1902), 



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