CORNACEAE. CORNUS 579 



Yunnan: Mengtsze, A. Henry (Nos. 9176, 9176% 9176^; tree 5-9 m. <^ 



tall). 



Wilson's No. 1851 from Fatung Hsien differs from tlie typical form In the much 

 narrower elliptic-oblong, acute or somewhat acuminate bracts, which are about 

 3 cm. long and 0.8-1 cm. broad and resemble in shape those of C. kousa Buerger, 



Comus capitata, var. mollis Rehder, var. nov. 



A tj^o recedit foliis subtus et petiolis et ramulis Junioribus molliter 

 crispulo-villosis, foliis supra initio sparse villosis demum glabrcscenti- 

 bus plerumque ellipticis 4.5-7 cm. longis et 2-3.5 latis. 



Western Hupeh: Changyang Hsien, thickets, alt. 1400 m., rare, 

 July 1907 (No. 1850, tree 6 m. tall, bark gray, flowers white). 



In the section Thelycrania one would be inclined to consider the difference in 



the pubescence a specific character, but as the proposed variety agrees in all other 



characters with the typical species it seems better to treat it as a well marked 

 variety. 



Here may be added notes on three species not collected during the Arnold 

 Arboretum Expeditions. 



Cornus oblonga Wallich in Roxburgh, Fl Ind. I. 432 (1820). — D. Don, Prodr. FL 

 Nepal, 140 (1825). — De Candolle, Prodr. IV. 272 (1830). — Brandis, Forest FL 

 Brit. Ind. 253 (1874); Ind. Trees, 358, fig. 188 (1906). —Kurz, Forest Fl. Brit 

 Burma, I. 545 (1877). — Clarke in Hooker f ., Fl Brit. Ind. II. 744 (1879). — CoUett, 

 Fl. Siml. 220 (1902). — Wangerin in Engler, Pflanzenr. IV.-229, 64 (1910). 



'Szech'uan: without precise locality, A. Henry (No. 7031, distributed as 

 "Viburnum"). Yunnan: Mi-le district, A. Henry (No. 9930); Mengtsze, alt. 



1800-2800 m., A. Henry (Nos. 11161, 11397). 



Henry's No. 7031 has the young branchlets, petioles and the under siae 01 me 

 leaves quite villose; his 9930 from Yunnan is almost as viliose, while the other 

 numbers are only slightly pubescent. 



^ Comus Bretschneideri L. Henry in Jardin, XIII. 309, fig. 154 (1899). — Koohne 

 in Mitt. Deutsch. Dendr. Ges. XII. 45 (1903). — Schneider, III. Ilandb. Lanhhohk. 

 II. 446, fig. 298 d-d^ (1909). — Wangerin m Engler, Pflanzenr. IV.-229, 67 (1910). 



Cornus aspera Wangerin in Fedde, Rep. Spec. Nov. VI. 97 (1908). 



, Chili: Hsiao Wu-tai-shan, August 8, 1913, F. N. Meyer (No. 89); same local- 

 ity, August 23, 1913, F. N. Meyer (No. 90). Western Kansu: on road to Si- 

 kou, August 13, 1910, W. Purdom. 



Comus WUsoniana Wangerin in Fedde, Rep. Spec. Nov.VI. 97 (1908). — Schnei- 

 der, III Handb. Lauhholzk. II. 444, fig. 2961 (1909). — Wangerin m Engler, 

 Pflanzenr. IV.-229, 65 (1910). , „ 



Western Hupeh: without precise locality, May 1901 (Veitch. Exped. No. 

 764, m part, flowering branch with the corollas mostly dropped and fruitmg branch), 

 A. Henry (No. 300). 



This species has been confused with C. Walten Wangerin, to which the flowermg 

 branches partly in bud of the type number belong. 



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