THE ACE AE. — EUIIYA 399 



D. Macgregor. Fokien: Dunn's Exped., April to June 1905 (Hong- 

 kong Herb. No. 2396). 



This is a common low level shrub in the Yangtsze valley and is easily dis- 

 tinguished from the type by its finely serrate leaves. In No. 1572 the shoots are 

 almost terete and puberulous and the styles are deeply divided. 



Eurya japomca, var. aurescens Rehder & Wilson, n. var. 



Eurya japonica Pritzel in Engler, Bot. Jahrh. XXIX. 474 (non Thunberg) 

 (1900). 



A typo recedit ramulis crassioribus, foliis crassius coriaceis, subito 

 breviter acuminatis, basi subito contractis interdum rotundatis, ellip- 

 ticis V. elliptico-oblongis 5-9 cm. longis, densius serrulatis, subtus, in 

 sicco saltern, aureis v. flavescentibus, costa media supra valde impressa, 

 stylis distinctis. 



Western Hupeh: Changyang Hsien, woods, alt. 600-1300 m., 

 April and September 1907 (No. 3545, type; shrub 2-6 m. tall, flowers 

 white or pink, fruit black); same locality, April 1900 (No. 22; flowers 

 only); Patung Hsien, A. Henry (Nos. 5167, 3673, 5162); without pre- 

 cise locality, A. Henry (Nos. 5170, 7830, 6693). Eastern Szech'uan: 

 Wushan Hsien, A, Henry (No. 5616). Szech'uan: Nanch'uan, A. 

 von Rosthorn (No. 2165). 



This variety is well distinguished by the characters described above from the 

 type, which has smaller, less coriaceous and much more coarsely toothed leaves 

 usually green on the under side when dry, and united styles. Very possibly it should 

 rank as a distinct species, but the species of this genus are very variable and good 

 distinguishing characters are very few. Most botanists in dealing with this genus 

 have attached importance to the styles being free or united, but it appears to us 

 very doubtful if this character has any real significance. We find the degree of 

 union very variable on the same branch, but we have failed to discover them 

 entirely free and also connate in the same flower-cluster or on the same flow- 

 ering branch. Dyer (in Hooker f., Fl. Brit, Jnd. I. 284) includes the Japanese 

 type under var. Thunhergii Thwaites, and says the styles are free. But Thwaitcs 

 (Enum. FL Zeylan. 41 [1864]) describes the branchlets as terete and says nothing 

 about the styles. In the Japanese type the branchlets are angled and the styles 

 connate to well above the middle. The Ceylon plant with which Thwaites was 

 familiar probably belongs to a distinct species. 



This new variety is a common shrub in the woods on the mountains of western 

 Hupeh. It grows to a large size and with its shining, dark green leaves is decidedly 

 handsome. 



Eurya ochnacea Szyszylowiez in Engler & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam, 

 in. Abteil. 3, 189 (1893). — Shira^awa, Icon. Ess, For. Jap. II. t. 53, 

 fig. 18-31 (1908). — Matsumura, Ind. PL Jap. II. pt, 2, 359 (1912). 



Cleyera japonica Siebold & Zuccarlnl, Fl. Jap. I. 153, t. 81 (non Thun- 

 berg) (1835). 



