TAMARICACEAE. — MYRICARIA 407 



Western Hupeh: Ichang, cultivated, April 1901 (Veitch Exped. No. 1900). 

 This species is probably only rarely cultivated in China. Wilson found it in the 

 garden of a Mr. Wong, who had introduced plants from European nurseries. 



Tamarix juniperina Bunge in Mem. Sav. Etr. Acad. Set. St. PHershourg, II. 

 102 {Enum. PL Chin. Bor. 28) (1833). —Bunge, Tent. Gen. Tamar. 45 (1852).— 

 Schneider, III. Handb. Laubholzk. II. 343, fig. 229 e-i (1909). 



Tamarix chinensis Siebold & Zuccarini, Fl. Jap. I. 132, t. 71 (non Loureiro) 

 (1840). — Diels in Not Bot. Gard. Edinburgh, VII. 91 (1912). 



Yunnan : Lichiang valley, cultivated, May 1906, G. Forrest (No. 2039). 



MYRICARIA Desv. 



Myricaria bracteata Royle, IlL BoL HimaL 214, t. 44 (1839). 

 Boissier, FL Or, I. 763 (1867). 



Myricaria Hoffmeisteri Klotzsch, Bot. Ergeb. Reise Prinz Waldem. 120, t. 

 25 (1862). 



Myricaria germ^nica Dyer In Hooker f., FL Brit. Ind. I. 250 (non Desvaux) 

 (1875). — Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXIII. 347 (1888), synon. '^ Myri- 

 caria alopecuroides " excluso. 



Western Szech'uan; beds of streams, common, October 1910, 

 alt. 900-2400 m. (No. 4344; bush 1-3 m. tall, flowers pink); beds of 

 streams, alt. 300-2700 m., September 1903 (Veitch Exped. No. 3191); 

 Min River, sandy and stony places, June 1903 (Veitch Exped. No. 

 3192). Western Hupeh: Ichang, A. Henry (Nos. 22, 843). 



This species is most closely related to M. gennanica Desvaux, but differs from it 

 chiefly in its shorter acuminate bracts, broader sepals with a broad membranous 

 usually pink margin and petals nearly twice as long as the sepals, 



M3nicaria dahurica Ehrenberg in Linnaea, II, 278 (1827). — De 

 Candolle, Prodr. III. 98 (1828). 



Tamarix dahurica Willdenow in Abh. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1812-13, 85 (1816). 



Western Szech'uan: Tachien-lu, beds of streams, alt. 1500-4000 

 m., July 7, 1908 (No. 3268; shrub 3-4 m. tall, flowers pink); without 

 precise locality, alt. 2400 m., May 1904 (Veitch Exped. No. 3193). 

 Western Kansu: Minchow, Tow River, alt. 2100-2700 m., W, 

 Purdom. 



