OLEACEAE. 



Determined by Alfred Rehder, 



LIGUSTRUM L. 



Ligustrum acutissimum Koehne in Festschrift Siehzig, Gehurtst. 

 Ascherson, 192, fig. 1 a (1904); in Fedde, Rep, Spec. Nov, I. S, fig. 

 1 a (1905). — Schneider, III Handb. Laubholzk, 11. 806, fig. 505 m-n* 

 (1911), 



Ligustrum Ihota Hemsley in Jour, Linn. Soc. XXVI. 21 (non Siebold) (1889), 

 quoad specimina Hupehensia. — Diels in Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. 532 (1900). 



Western Hupeh: north and south of Ichang, thickets, alt. 600- 

 1200 m., June, July and September, 1907 (No. 315; bush about 2 m. 

 tall, flowers white, fruit black); Hsing-shan Hsien, thickets, alt. 300- 

 1600 m., June and November 1907 (No. 315^ bush 2-3 m. tall, flowers 

 white) ; Fang Hsien, thickets, side of streams, alt. 300-1000 m., May 

 28, 1907 (No. 3503; bush 1-3 m. tall, flowers white); without precise 

 locality, June 1900 (Veitch Exped. No. 938), A. Henry (Nos. 5881, 

 6583,7158,7447). Kiangsi: Ruling, thickets, common, alt. 1300 m.; 

 July 28, 29, 31, 1907 (Nos. 1633, 1638, 1640; bushes 1-2 m. tall); 

 same locality, alt. 1200 m., August 1, 1907 (No. 1593; bush 2 m. tall, 

 with wild insect white wax (peh-la) . 



This species seems to be as variable in its pubescence and in the shape of us 

 leaves as L. ibota Siebold to which it is closely related; Henry's No. 7158 and the 

 Bpecimens from Kiangsi except No. 1633 have nearly glabrous leaves sometimes, 

 particularly on the flowering branches, obtuse and rather broad. On some fruitmg 

 specimens as on Henrj-'s No. 7447 and Wilson's No. 1633 the calyx and pedicels 

 show traces of pubescence. The glabrescent specimens from Kiangsi and ^^* ' ^ 

 from Hupeh which are all in immature fruit may belong to L. ihota, but diner 

 from that species in their more pointed leaves and in the generally narrower in- 

 florescence. 



Ligustrum expansum Rehder, n. sp, . . 



Frutex circiter 3-metralis (secundum cl. Wilson); ramuli hornotmi 

 sparse pilosi v. fere glabri, teretes, annotini pallide flavo-cinerei spar- 

 sissime lenticellati. Folia membranacea, elliptico-oblonga v. lanceo- 

 lato-oblonga, utrinque sensim attenuata, apice saepius longe acumuiata, 



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