328 WILSON EXPEDITION TO CHINA 
INDIA. Manipur: 1881-82, G. Watts (No. 6538). East Bengal: W. 
Griffith (No. 271 in part). Assam: Khasia Hills, alt. 1600 m., Hooker f. & 
Thomson. 
This is the common Pittosporum of China and is frequent in woods, thickets 
and shady places throughout the warmer parts from the sea-coast to the extreme 
west. The leaves vary much in size and in shape from obovate and obovate- 
oblong to oblanceolate-oblong and occasionally lanceolate-oblong. The pedicels 
are glabrous or furnished with few to many crisped and glandular hairs. The 
capsule is large and relatively thick and woody and is usually three-valved, but 
may vary from 2 to 4 on the same branch. The flowers vary in color from pale to 
deep yellow and are sweetly scented. The characters on which Pampanini bases 
his var. chinense are inconstant. 
Pittosporum glabratum, var. neriifolium Rehder & Wilson n. var. 
A typo recedit foliis anguste oblongo-lanceolatis v. anguste lanceo- 
latis 10-15 em. longis et 1-2 cm. latis, interdum ad 20 cm. longis et 
2.6 cm. latis. 
Western Hupeh: Patung Hsien, cliffs, alt. 600-1000 m., May, 
November 1907 (No. 3181, type; bush 1.5-2 m. high, flowers yellow); 
without locality, May 1900 (Veitch Exped. No. 361); without local- 
ity, A. Henry (Nos. 5359, 5422). Western Szech'uan: without 
locality, May 1904 (Veitch Exped. Nos. 3231, 32319); Mt. Omel, 
1899, Hugh Scallan. Yunnan: Mentgsze, forests, alt. 1800-2300 m., 
A. Henry (Nos. 101915, 10545). Hongkong: Little Hongkong, 
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woods, April 12, 1909, W. J. Tutcher (ex Herb. Hongkong No. 9501). 
INDIA. Assam: Khasia Hills, alt. 1600 m., Hooker f. & T. Thomson. East 
Bengal, W. Griffith (No. 271 pro parte). $ 
In its typical form with its long and narrow oblong-lanceolate leaves, this plant 
looks sufficiently distinct to be regarded as a species, but the numbers Veitch 
Exped. 361, 3231, 3231°; Henry Nos. 5359, 101915, and the Mt. Omei specimen 
collected by Father Hugh Scallan are more" or less intermediate, and we do not 
think that it is entitled to rank higher than a variety. Its distribution is similar 
to that of the type with which it grows. 
Pittosporum truncatum E. Pritzel in Bot. Jahrb. X XIX. 378 (1900).— 
Pampanini in Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. n. ser. XVII. 286 (1910). 
derer on api var. brevicalyx Oliver in Hookers Icon. XVI. t. 
1 s 
Pittosporum brevicalyz Gagnepain in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, LV. 545 (1908). 
Western Hupeh: Ichang, cliffs of glens and ravines, alt. 30- 
600 m., May 3, November 1907 (No. 650; bush 1-2.5 m., flowers 
yellow); same locality, April and November 1900 (Veitch Exped. 
No. 51); same locality A. Henry (No. 1524); without locality A- 
Henry (Nos. 1081, 3414, 7306). Eastern Szech'uan: Wushan 
Hsien, A. Henry (No. 5513 in Herb. Gray); Nanch'uan, A. von Ros- 
thorn (No. 2071, co-type). $ 
