Floristik und Systematik der Phanerogamen. 585 



resincanals and the vascular cylinder is circular, the bündle being un- 

 branched. F. E. Fritsch. 



M|ASTERS], M. T., C h i n e s e C o n i f e r s. (The Gardeners' Chronicle. 

 Voi. XXXIII. 1903. 3rd ser. No. 841. p. 84, 85. Figs. 37, 

 38.) 



This article contains a description of Keteleeria Davidiana. The 

 male flovvers of Keteleeria are in umbels as in other Chinese genera of 

 Coniferae (c\v. Ginkgo). The points of difference between K Davidi- 

 ana and K- Fortunei, the first-described species of the genus, are men- 

 tioned. The leaf-structure of the former is remarkable in that near the 

 angles of the leaf a group of large colourless cells, possibly acting as 

 water-reservoirs, occur. The germination of K Davidiana is like that of 

 some species of Podocarpus, in that there are only two cotyledons. 



F. E. Fritsch. 



Masters, M. T., Chinese Conifers. (The Gardeners' Chro- 

 nicle. Vol. XXXIII. Series III. 1903. No. 843. p. 116—117. 

 Figs. 50 and 51.) 



Picea neoveitchii n. sp., collected by Wi 1 so n (n. 2601) in Western 

 Hupeh, is described. In the oblong, slightly curved cone and the 

 somewhat leathery, yellowish-brown, oblong or suborbicular scales it 

 resembles P. Morinda and P. polita, but the foliage is quite different. — 

 The submarginal resin-canals of the leaf are devoid of a strengthening 

 layer. F. E. Fritsch. 



Masters, M. T., Chinese Conifers. (The Gardeners' Chro- 

 nicle. Vol. XXXIII. Series III. 1903. No. 844. p. 133. 

 Figs. 55, 56.) 



A new species, Picea Wilsoni Mast., is described, collected by 

 Wilson at Fang in Hupeh. It is allied to P. Alcockiana, but may 

 be distinguished by the small-sized cones, the ovoid or roundish entire 

 scales with recurved margin, and the linear oblong bract. 



F. E. Fritsch. 



Masters, M. T., Chinese Conifers. (The Gardeners' Chro- 

 nicle. Vol. XXXIII. Series III. No. 848. p. 194. Fig. 82.) 



Keteleeria Evelyniana Mast. n. sp., only known from one locality in 

 Yunnan, is described. It differs from its allies in its long, slender, acute 

 leaves, which are only slightly sulcate above and have a midrib pro- 

 minent on both sides, as also in the smaller cones, which are tapering 

 at the base. A table for the determination of the four species of Kete- 

 leeria, at present known, is added. F. E. Fritsch. 



Masters, M. T., Chinese Conifers. (The Gardeners' 



Chronicle. Vol. XXXIII. Ser. 3. 1903. No. 850. p. 227 



—228. Figs. 93—96.) 



Cephalotaxus Oliveri, formerly confounded with C. Griffithii, is 

 discussed; it differs markedly from the latter in the leaves, which are 

 truncate basally and abruptly mucronulate apically. They have two 

 rather broad white bands of stomata, one on each side of the midrib. — 

 It is thought that C. drupacea and C. pedunculata may be forms of one 

 species. — A table for the determination of the species by their leaves 

 is added. F. E. Fritsch. 



