THYMELAEACEAE. — STELLERA 551 



Daphne papyrifera Siebold in Verh. BoL Genootsch. XII. pt. 1, 22 (nomen 



nudum) [Syn. PL Oecon, Jap. No. 130) (1830). 

 Edgewortkia papyrifera Siebold & Zuccarini in Abb. Akad. Munch. IV. pt. 



III. 199 (FL Jap. Fam. Nat. II. 75) (1846). — Miquel in Ann. Mus. Lugd.- 



Bat. III. 135 (1867); Prol. Fl. Jap. 290 (1867). — Schneider, III. Handb. 



Laubholzk. II. 403 (1909), excl. fig. 



Edgewortkia Gardneri Hemsley in Jour, Linn. Soc, XXVI, 396 (noa Meisner) 



(1891). 



Daphne nndijlora, Hort, 



Kiangsi: Kuling, side of streams, spontaneous, alt. 1200 m., July 

 29, 1907 (No. 1582; bush 1-1.6 m. tall). Western Hupeh: com- 

 monly cultivated around Ichang, alt. 300-1000 ra., April and October 

 1907 (No. 3555; bush 0.6-1.6 m. tall, flowers yellow); without precise 

 locality, April 1900 (Veitch Exped. No. 56). 



I do not think that tomentosa is to be considered the oldest specific name 

 for E. papyrifera^ as it was not Thunberg's intention to name this plant, when 

 publishing his Magnolia tomentosa, but he intended to give a specific name to the 

 Magnolia previously distinguished by him as M. glauca, a flore alho, named 

 later M. kobus by De Candolle. That this was his intention is shown by the fact 

 that the plant he figured afterwards {Icon. PL Jap. V. t, 8) as M. tomentosa is 

 M. kobus De Candolle. Magnolia sericea which is based entirely on our plant is 

 a nomen nudum. Daphne papyrifera also is a nomen nudum, and therefore E. 

 chrysantha has the priority, as it was published several months earUer than E. 

 papyrifera. In the herbarium of the Arnold Arboretum there is a specimen of 

 this species collected at the Villa Thuret near Antibes, France, by Ch. Naudin in 

 1889 and labeled ''Daphne nicdiflora L.", but I have been unable to find this 

 Dame mentioned anywhere in botanical or horticultural literature. 

 The Chinese colloquial name of this plant is " IMeng-hwa." 

 A picture of it will be found under No. 0353 of the collection of Wilson's photo- 

 graphs. 



STELLERA Gmel. 



^ Stellera chamaejasme Linnaeus, Spec. 559 (1753). — Willdenow, 

 Spec. II. pt. 1, 429 (1799). — Meisner in De Candolle, Prodr, XIV. 549 

 (1857). — Hooker f., Fl Brit. Ind. V. 196 (1890). — Hemsley in Jour. 

 Unn. Soc. XXVI. 401 (1894). 



Passerina Stelleri Wikstrom in Svensh. Vetensk. Akad. Handl. 1818, 321. 

 Pas&crina Chamaejasme Fischer ex Meisner in De Candolle, Prodr. XIV. 

 549 (pro synon.) (1857). 



Western Szech'uan: Tachien-lu, moor-lands, alt. 2700-3600 in., 

 June and September 1908 (No. loii; flowers white and various 

 colors, fragrant). Eastern Tibet : between Derge and Tachien-lu, 

 1911, John R. Muir. Yunnan: Mengtsze, A. Henry (No. 10126). v-^ 



According to Mr. Muir the root ia used bv the Tibetans in making paper. 



