OLEACEAE. — LIGUSTRUM 605 



agrees in all other respects perfectly with his description. The leaves are lustrous 

 on both surfaces and the dark colored branchleta marked by numerous conspicuous 

 lenticels. 



Ligustrum strongylophyllum Hemsley in Jour, Linn. Soc, XXVL 

 93 (1889). — Skan in Bot. Mag. CXXXII. t. 8069 (1906). — Schneider, 

 111 Handb, Laubholzk. II. 799, fig. 501 a-c, 502 h-i (1911). 



Western Hupeh: Ichang, San-yu-tung glen, cliffs, alt. 300 m., 

 June 11, 1907 (No. 3501; bush 1-1.5 m. tall, flowers white); Ichang, 

 A. Henry (Nos. 1559, 3104); Fang Hsien, rocky places, alt. 1000 m., 

 July 1907 (No. 3501, in part; bush 1.5 m. tall, flowers white); Patung 

 Hsien, cliffs, alt. 300 m., August 1907 (No. 3501, in part; bush 1.5-2.5 

 m. tall, flowers white); without precise locality, June 1900 (Veitch 

 Exped. No. 1504), A. Henry (No. 6299). Western Szech'uan: 

 Shih-ch'uan Hsien, cliffs, alt. 1000 m., August 1910 (No. 4596; bush 

 1-1.5 m. tall). 



Ligustrum sinense Loureiro, Fl. Cochin. 19 (1790). — De Candolle, 

 Prodr. VIII. 295 (1844). — Bentham in Hooker's Jour. Bot. & Kew 

 Gard. Misc. IV. 331 (1852); FL Hongkong. 215 (1861); Gard. Chron, 

 1858, 621, fig.; n. ser. X. 364, fig. 64 (1878). — Decaisne in Fl des 

 Serres, XXII. 10 (1877); in Nouv. Arch. Mus. Pans, s6r. 2, II. 36 

 (1879). — Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXVL 92 (1889). — Dippel, 

 Handb. Laubholzk. L 125, fig. 75 (1889). — Schneider, III Handb. 

 Laubholzk. II. 801, fig. 502 m-n, 504 k-1, 505 a-d (1911). — L^veill6, 

 Fl Kouy-Tcheou, 295 (1914), 



Olea Walpersiana Hance in Walpers, Ann. III. 17 (1852). 



Olea consanguinea Hance, I. c. IS (1852). 



Ligustrum villosum May in Rev. Hort. 1874, 299. — Carriere in Rev. HorL 



1875, 460. 

 Ligustrum Ibota villosum Hort. ex Decaisne in Fl. des SerteSj XXII. 10 (pro 



eynon.) (1877). 

 Ligustrum sinensBj var. villosum Rehder in Bailey, Cycl. Am. Hort. II. 913 



(1900). 



Western Szech'uan: Wa-shan, thickets, alt. 2000 m., June 1908 

 (No. 3496; bush 3-5 m. tall, flowers white). Western Hupeh; near 

 Ichang, A. Henry (No. 3619); without precise locality, A. Henry (No. 

 4171). 



This species is exceedingly variable in the shape and pubescence of the leaves 

 and although the most extreme forms look veiy distinct, they are all connected by 

 intermediate forms. The specimens enumerated above seem to come nearer to 

 the type as it is usually interpreted than any of the other specimens from central 

 and western China. Of the cultivated specimens I have seen, I consider No. 540 

 of Koehne*s Herbarium dendrologicum from the Botanic Garden at Darmstadt 



