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540 WILSON EXPEDITION TO CHINA 



2949);Ta-hsiang-ling, alt. 2500 m., May 1904 (Veitch Exped. No. 4438). 

 Western Hupeh: Changlo Hsien, alt. 1200-1500 m., July 1907 

 (No. 2944). Yunnan: Mengtze, wooded cliffs, alt. 2100 m., A, 

 Henry (No. 11321; flowers white, fragrant). 



This species is closely related to D. odora Thunberg which differs chiefly in its 

 perfectly glabrous branchlets, broader usually distinctly petioled acute leaves, in 

 the sessile head of many flowers surrounded by persistent bracts and by the com- 

 paratively shorter lobes of the perianth. Henry^s No. 11321 from Yunnan diners 

 somewhat from the type in the paler branches, in the distinctly petioled leaves, 

 and in the perianth being pubescent toward the base. In this and the following 

 species the inflorescence is borne on a longer or shorter stalk from 0.5-3 cm. long, 

 furnished with a few scattered membranous and ciliate deciduous bracts and passing 

 toward the apex into usually 1-3 leaves or sometimes wanting. From the apex of 

 this stalk at the base of the flowers a new shoot usually appears which continues 

 the branch; this shows that the stalk of the inflorescence is not a peduncle, but a 

 branch. The branching therefore in this and the following species is usually sym- 

 podial with most of the older inflorescences apparently lateral on the branches, 

 while in D. odora it is dichotomous with the old inflorescences in the forkings of 

 the branches. 



Daphne Wilsonii Rehder, n. sp. 



Frutex erectus, 0.5-1.75 m. altus; rami crassi, carnosuli, hornotini 

 dense flavido-strigosi; annotini saltern apicem versus strigosi, glabres- 

 centes, ut vetustiores pallide flavo-grisei v. flavescentes. Folia alterna, 

 persistentia, crasse coriacea, oblonga v. oblanceolato-oblonga, apice 

 . acutiuscula v. obtusa, mucronulata, rarius leviter emarginata, basi 

 cuneata in petiolum brevissimum attenuata v. subsessilia, 4-7, ranus 

 ad 10 cm. longa et 1-2, rarius fere ad 3 cm. lata, utrinque glabra, supra 

 luteo-viridia in sicco manifeste corrugata, subtus paullo pallidiora V. 

 fuscescens, costa media supra impressa subtus elevata, ner\'is subtus 

 leviter elevatis v. fere obsoletis. Flores albi v. rosei, rarius virescentes, 

 fragrantes, in capitulis 5-12-floris in apice innovationis plus minusve 

 elongatae et bracteis sparsis ovalibus v. oblongo-ovalibus dense cilio- 

 latis caducis v. interdum foliaceis glaberrimis instructae breviter pedi- 



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minatis, rarius ovali-oblongis et obtusiusculis tubum fere aequantibus 

 v. paullo brevioribus; antherae 8 anguste oblongae, mucronulatae, 

 2 nam. longae, superiores paullo exsertae sed basin loboriim^ vix 

 attingentes, inf eriores circa medium tubiinsertae,filamentisbrevissunis, 

 pistillum 4.5 mm. longum, basi disco annulari leviter crenulato brevis- 

 simo vix 0.1 mm. excedente circumdatum, ovario ovoideo glabro, 

 etigmate subsessili capitato sublobato. Fructus baccatus, ovoideus, 



