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the type and even those are more or less intermediate and from Shensi 

 only the variety is known. 



Camellia elongata, comb. nov. — Thea elongata Rehder & Wilson in 

 Sargent, PL Wilson, n. 392 (1915). 



According to the International rules of nomenclature the name Camellia 

 has to be adopted, if Camellia and Thea are not considered generically dis- 

 tinct, as the first author, who united the two genera — Sweet in 1818 — chose 

 Camellia as the name for the genus. This was first stated clearly by 

 Dr. Cohen Stuart in his dissertation on Tea Selection (in Mededeel. 

 Procfstat. Thee. xl. 328 pp, pi. [1916] ), which includes a critical synopsis 

 of all the species of the genus (1. c. 57-133 [1916], of which an English en- 

 larged translation appeared in Hull. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg, s6r. 3, I. 

 193-320, pi. 21-31 [1919]). In a letter dated June 27th, 1922, Dr. Cohen 

 Stuart calls my attention to two specimens not seen by my colleague 

 and me when we described the species, collected by E. Faber on Mount 

 Omei in 1887 which he refers to Camellia elongata, namely No. 76 (in 

 herb. Kew and Berlin), and No. 345 (in herb. Kew), also an anomalous 

 one, probably by Faber (in herb. Berlin); he adds: "No. 345 will be of 

 special interest to you as it bears fruit. These arc 14 mm. long, 11 mm. 

 thick, pear-shaped, glabrous, opening from the apex with sharp-edged 

 lobes; the seeds are too much shriveled to allow of a description." 



Viburnum Sargentii f. flavum, forma nov. 



A typo recedit fructi flavo, antheris flavis, foliis subtus tantum ad costam 



nervosque et saepe sparse ad venulas pilosis. 



Cultivated at Highland Park, Rochester, New York, and at the Arnold Arboretum 

 jpecimens examined: Highland Park, Rochester, New York, J. Dunbar, August 30, 

 1922. 



This handsome form of V. Sargentii Koehne is distinguished from the 

 type by its larger light yellow or amber-colored fruit pellucid when fully 

 ripe, short-ellipsoidal or obovoid-ellipsoidal and 9-11 mm. long and 8-9 mm. 

 across. In the pubescence of its leaves it is intermediate between the type 

 and f. calresccns Rehder, being pilose chiefly on the midrib and veins only. 



It was raised together with typical V. Sargentii at the Arnold Arbore- 

 tum from seed sent in the autumn of 1904, by the Japanese botanist 

 Uciyama from Korea to the Arboretum. Plants were sent latter to the 

 Park Department at Rochester, New York, where it seems to have done 

 better than in this Arboretum. It apparently fruits more profusely than 

 the type and is indeed a striking plant when covered with its large pendent 

 clusters of amber-colored fruit and seems superior as an ornamental shrub 

 to V. Opulus f. xanthocarpum . 



(To be continued) 



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