CORNACEAE. 



Determined by Alfred Rehder. 



TORRICELLIA DC. 



Torricellia angulata Oliver in Hooker's Icon.XXlX. 1. 1893 (1889). 



Harms in Bot. Jahrb, XXIX. 506 (1900). — Wangerin in Engler, 



Pflanzenr, IV.-229, 33, fig. 6 (1910).— Leveille, i^Z. Kouy-TcMou, 117 

 (1914). 



Torricellia intermedia Harms in Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. 507 (1900). — Wangerin 

 in Engler, Pjlanzenr. IV.-229, 33 (1910). 



Western Hupeh: Hsing-shan Hsien, thickets and roadsides, rare, 

 alt. 1000 m., May 8 and June 7, 1907 (No. 2349; bush 1-2 m. tall, 

 flowers dirty white). Eastern Szech'uan : Taning Hsien, alt. 600- 

 13()0 m., July 1910 (No. 4611; bush 2-7 m. tall, fruit black); Wushan 

 Hsien, A. Henry (No. 5524). Western Szech'uan; Nanch^uan, 

 A, von Rosthorn (No. 1542, type of T. intermedia), 



Torricellia intermedia does not seem to be specifically distinct from T. angulala^ 

 for Wilson's No. 4611 is clearly intermediate between von Rosthom's and Henry's 

 specimens; the leaves are sparingly dentate between the lobes, and the veins on the 

 Underside are very slightly and sparingly pubescent, while in Henry's specimen they 

 are perfectly glabrous with the exception of small tufts of hairs in the axils of the 

 Veins. The staminate flowers of T. angulata not previously described are borne in 

 tnany-flowered and much-branched drooping nearly sessile panicles 6-10 cm. long 

 and developed from leafless axillary and terminal buds; rachis slightly puberiHous, 

 the ramifications subtended by small lanceolate or irregularly ovate-lanceolate 

 scanoug and glabrous bracts; pedicels with two small bractlets about the middle, 

 2--3 mm. long; tube of the calyx nearly flat, with very short broadly triangular or 

 obsolete teeth; petals oblong-lanecolate, slightly concave with incurved apex, 3-4 

 mm. long; stamens with short filaments about 1 mm. long and with broadly oval 

 anthers 1.5 mm. long; the rudimentary pistil consists of a flat disk. 



A picture of this plant will be found under No. 0166, of the collection of Wilson's 

 photographs. 



Here may be added a reference to a species not collected during the Arnold 

 Arboretum Expeditions. 



Torricellia tUiifolia De Candolle, Prodr. IV. 257 (1830). — Seem ann in Jour, 

 ^ot III. 361, t. 41 (1865). — Clarke in Hooker f., Fl Brit. Ind. II. 748 (1879). — 

 Wangerin in Engler, Pjlanzenr, IV.-229, 31 (1910). 



Sambucus tiliaefolia Wallich, Cat. No. 483 (nomen nudum) (1828). 



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