: TAB. 8855. 
DAPHNE TANGUTICA. 
Kansu. 
THYMELAEACEAE. Tribe HuUTHYMELAEEAE. 
Darang, Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 190. 
Daphne tangutica, Mazim. in Bull. Acad. Sct. St. Petersb. vol. xxvii. p. 531 
(1883) ; Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xxvi. p. 396 (1891) ; Rehd. im 
Plant. Wils. vol. ii. pp. 548, 545; species ad D. retusam, Hemsl., arcte 
accedens sed foliis longioribus pro rata angustioribus, perulis minus 
ciliatis, stigmate glabrescente apte distinguenda. 
Frutex vix sesquimetralis, dense ramosus, robustus, conglobatus; novelli 
cinereo-brunnei, crassi, primum setis cinereis induti, demum fere glabri. 
Folia persistentia, coriacea, oblanceolata vel anguste elliptica, apice 
saepius emarginata, basi in petiolum brevem robustum angustata, margine 
parum revoluta, utrinque glabra, supra intense viridia, nitida, subtus 
pallidiora, hebetia, 2°5-7°5 cm. longa, 0°6-1°8 cm. lata. Flores in 
umbellam terminalem 3°8 cm. latam aggregati, singuli ex axillis perularum 
oblongarum acutarum margine ciliatarum ceterum glabrarum orti, vere 
fere peracto aperti. Perianthwm 4-lobum, basi tubulosum, extra roseo- 
purpureum, glabrum; tubus 1°5 cm. longus; limbus 1°2 cm. latus ; lobi 
ovati, obtusi, intus 2 albi, 2 basi albi apicem versus purpureo tincti. 
Stamina 8, 2-seriata; series 4-antherae superpositae ; antherae luteae 
filamentis triplo longiores. Pistillum 3 mm. longum, ovario ovoideo 
glabro, stylo crasso perbrevi, stigmate capitato fere glabro. Bacca rubra, 
carnosa, ovoideo-globosa, 1 cm. longa, 0°8 cm. lata.—W. J. Bean. 
Daphne tangutica was originally discovered by the 
famous Russian traveller, Przewalski, in Kansu, Western 
China, in 1873, but was not described and named by 
Maximowicz until ten years later. Although quite 
distinct in its general aspect from D. retusa, Hemsl., 
figured at t. 8430 of this work, it is undoubtedly very 
closely allied to that species. In D. retusa, however, the 
leaves are shorter and proportionately broader, the 
perulae are more markedly ciliate, and the stigma is 
distinctly pubescent. Mr. Rehder, in “ Plantae Wilson- 
ianae,” relies on the “ramuli glabri” of D. tangutica to 
separate it from D. retusa, but the young shoots of both 
are at first covered with small strigose hairs. Judging 
from the rather scanty material as yet available, the 
Juty-Sepremper, 1920. 
