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CORYLOPSIS VEITCHIANA. 
Central China. 
HAMAMELIDACEAE, 
CoryLopsis, Sieb. et Zucc.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. i. p. 667. 
Corylopsis Veitchiana, Been; inter species hucusque descriptas C. sinens, 
Hemsl., et V. Henryi, Hemsl., proxima ab illa tamen foliis maturis glaber- 
rimis staminibusque pline exsertis, ab hac calycis lobis tubo brevioribus, 
petalis latioribus, stauinibus exsertis, nectariis calycis lobos excedentibus 
apte distinguenda. 
Frutex 2-metralis comam fere sphaericam compactam efficiens; ramuli etiam 
juniores glabri, rabescentes. o/ia breve petiolata, elliptica, abrupie breve 
acuminata vel acuta, mucronulata, basi snbcordata, 7-10 em. longa, 
4-5 cm. lata, primum purpurascentia et subtus secus nervos p.lis per- 
pancis simplicibus cito caducis vestita, mox glaberrima supra saturate 
viridia subtus glaucescentia vel glanca, coriacea; venae primariae utrinque 
6-7 parallelae, vena ima nervos 4-5 versus Jaminae marginem emittente, 
omnes subtus elevatae in dentes setuceos excurrentes; petiolus 6 mm. 
longus, glaberrimus. Lamuli floriferi cernui, spicati, bracteati, 2°5-5 em. 
longi, 1°7 cm. lati, ex axillis foliorum delapsornm orti, 10-15-flori; rhachis 
pilosa, basi perulis paucis vacvis obsita. Hractea« stipulares 2-4, concavae, 
plus minusve translucentes, pallide viridi-flavi, orbiculares, extra glabrae, 
margine ciliatae, intus sericeae ; bracteae floriferae similes nisi minores et 
extra intusque hirsutae. Calyx viridi-flavus, hirsutus; lobi 5, rotundati, 
ciliati, tubo triplo breviores. Petvla 5, primulina, spathulato-orbicularia, 
lamina 4 mm. lata in unguem 8 mm. longum attenuata, Stamina 5; 
antherae brunneo-rubrae distincte exsertae. Nectariv 5, argute 2-dentata, 
calycis lobos parum excedentia. Sty/i erccti, apice recuivi. Capsula ignota. 
—W. J. Bean. 
The Hamamelidaceous genus Curylcpsis is rather widely 
distributed throughout Eastern Asia from the Eastern 
Himalaya to Japan. So far thirteen species have been 
reported; of these four seem confined to Southern Japan 
and six occur in Eastern and Central China, only one of 
these, C. sinensis, Hemsl., extending from Kiang-si, through 
Hupeh, as far as Szechuan in Western China. In the 
western portion of the region occupied by the genus the 
species seem less numerous, one only having been collected 
-in Bhutan, another in the Khasia Hills and a third in 
Manipur. The species here figured was collected at 
December, 1910. 
