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lists and the like provided they are accompanied by a sufficient description, 

 since art. 35 says that publication is effected by the sale or public distribu- 

 tion of printed matter or indelible autographs, which does not exclude any 

 class of publication. The only way to exclude such names would be by tak- 

 ing advantage of art. 3G which rules, that after January 1, 1908, the publi- 

 cation of names of new groups will be valid only w^hen they are accompanied 

 by a Latin diagnosis, but this rule -is practically a dead letter, and I have as 

 yet no knowledge of any name disregarded for this reason ; considered as a 

 recommendation art. 36 is excellent. 



TAXACEAE 



Taxus chinensis (Pilger), spec, nov.^ — Taxus haccata Franchet in Nouv. 

 Arch. Mus. Paris, ser, 2, vii. 103 (PI. David, i. 293) (1884), non Linnaeus; 

 in Jour, de Bot. xiii. 264 (1899). — Pritzel in Bot. Jahrb. xxix. 214 

 (1900). — Masters in Jour. Linn. Soc. xxiv. 546 (1902); xxxvii. 414 

 (1906); in Jour. Bot. xli. 269 (1903). — Taxus haccata subsp. 2. cuspidata 

 var. chinensis Pilger in Engler, Pflanzenr. iv. 5, 112 (Taxac.) (1903). — 

 Patschke in Bot. Jahrb. XLViil. 630 (1913). — Taxus haccata var. sinensis 

 Henry in Elwes & Henry, Trees Gt. Brit. Irel. i. 100 (1906).— Taxus cus- 

 pidata var. chinensis Rehder & Wilson in Sargent, PL Wilson, ii. 8 (1916). 



Arbor 5-16-metralis; ramuli annotini et vetustiores plerumque cinereo- 

 brunnei vel flavo-cinerci; gemmae pallide brunneae, perulis obtusiusculis, 

 dorso fere planis v. infcrioribus leviter carinatis, basi ramulorum non, vel 

 partim tantum persislentibus. Folia biseriatira exi)ansa, pleraque satis 

 distantia, vix vel raro arete contigua, falcata, 1.5 - 3 cm. longa, 2.5 - 4 mm. 

 lata, apice plus minusve abrupte mucronulata, mediano supra plerumque 

 leviter elevata, rarius prominente, subtus basi exccpta obsoleto. Semen 

 late ovoideum, 6 mm. longum et 5 - 6 mm. crassum, vix compressum, 

 apice leviter bicarinatum, ceterum laeve, hilo fere orbicular!. 



China. Western Hupeh: /I. Henry (No. 6913), E. H. Wilson (Am. Arb.Exped. 

 No. 12G5, in part). Eastern Szechuan: A, Henry (No. 7097, 7155, type), E. //. 

 Wilson (Veitch Exped. No. 624). Western Szechuan: E. //. Wilson (Am. Arb. 

 Exped. No. 1265, in part, No. 4053). Chekiang: F. A. Meyer, 1907 (No. 433). 

 Shensi: W. rurdom, 1910. Kansu: F. N. Meyer, 1914 (No. 1790). 



Opinions may differ if it is better to consider the different geographical 

 forms of Taxus distinct species or varieties or subspecies of T, haccata, but 

 whatever view is taken, the same rank should be given to the Chinese form 

 as to the other gcogra])hical forms, and it should not be made a subdivision 

 of T. cuspidata, ns it differs from that species as much as the other species 

 differ from each other. Its place seems to be between T, cuspidata and T. 

 Wallichiana Zuccarlni. Taxus cuspidata which is its nearest relation differs 

 chiefly in the following characters; Winter-buds with acute, keeled, and 

 rather loosely imbricated scales persistent at the base of the branchlets: 

 leaves straight or nearly straight, generally shorter and very crowded and 



* T. chinensis Roxburgh, Ilort. Beng. 73 (1814) is a nomen nudum and therefore not valid; 

 it is considered a synonym of Podocarpus macrophyllus Don. 



