EBENACEAE. — DIOSPYROS 591 



armata 



Bean in Kew Bull. Misc. Inform. 1913, 165. 



Western Hupeh : north of Ichang, alt. 300 m., May 4, 1907 (No. 

 2912; tree 5-10 m. tall, girth 0.5-1.5 m., flowers creamy-white, fra- 

 grant); near Ichang, alt. 300 m., May 1907 (No. 3730; tree 13 m, 

 tall, flowers white, fragrant); Nanto and mountains to northward, A, 

 Henry (No. 7717, type). 



This is a very rare tree which is known to us from only one or two localities in 

 Western Ilupeh. The male flowers are um-shaped, creamy-white and delightfully 

 fragrant; the leaves are very lustrous and dark green. On Henry's specimen in 

 the Gray Herbarium the leaves are oblanceolate-oblong to lanceolate-oblong, but on 

 our specimens which have male flowers the leaves vary from obovate to elliptic 

 and elliptic-lanceolate. The winter-buds are very small, obtuse and pubescent. 

 The tree is deciduous or subevergreen. 



Diospyros sinensis Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Sac. XXVI. 71 (1889) ; in 

 Hooker's Icon. XXIX. t. 2804 (1906). 



Diospyros armata Diels in Bot. Jakrh. XXIX. 525, fig. 4 (non Hemsley) (1900). 



Western Hupeh: cultivated, Temple garden, Ichang, April 1901 

 (Veitch Exped. No. 1902). Western Szech'uan: Wen-ch'uan 

 Hsien, valley of Min River, alt. 1000 m., June 1, 1908 (No. 2910; small 

 tree, 3-8 m. tall); same locality, October 1910 (No. 4617; tree 3-lOm. 

 tall, 1-2.5 m. girth of trunk, fruit orange); same locality, alt. 1100 m., 

 August 1903 (Veitch Exped, No. 4062); Yachou Fu, alt. 600-1000 m., 

 October 1910 (No. 4616; bush 3 m., evergreen, fruit globose, golden); 

 Kiating Fu: hills around city, June 1903 (Veitch Exped. No. 4061; 

 small tree 5 m. tall); Mt. Omei, alt. 1300 in., E. Faber (No. 207, type). 



This is a common small evergreen or subevergreen tree in the dry valleys of 

 Western Szech'uan. The short trunk is thick, the branches are very numerous and 

 wide-spreading and the branchlets are spiny. 



Diels (I. c.) has mistaken this plant for the rare and very closely allied D. armata 

 Hemsley, which has shorter, more coriaceous oblong-oval to obovate leaves and 

 the male flowers have shorter pedicels and are more numerous in the cyme. 



Here may be added the description of two new species not collected during the 

 Arnold Arboretum Expeditions. 



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Diospyros mollifolia Rehder & Wilson, n. sp. 



Arbor 5-6-metralis ; rami graciles tomento cinereo v. rufo-cinereo dense obtecti, 



in secundo v. tertio anno glabrescentes, brunnei v. rubro-brunnei, lenticellati; 

 gemmae parvae, obtusae, villosae. Folia chartacea, decidua v. interdum sub- 

 persistentia, elhptica, ovalia v. laneeolata, obtusa v. acuminata, mucronata, basi 

 cuneata v. rotundata, 2-6 cm. longe et 1-2.5 cm. lata, supra pustulata, plus 

 minusve molliter adpresse pubescentia, subtus densius pubescentia, ciliata, nervia 

 subtus elevatis; petioH 3-5 mm, longi, dense villosi. Flores masculi plures in 



cymis 



