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XXX.—THE HIMALAYAN SPECIES OF SKIMMIA. 
J. S. GAMBLE. 
For some years 1 have been under the impression that en 
plans, pee es in the Flora of British India I. p. 499 (1875) a 
Skimnmuia Laureola contained more than one species, because, in 
addition to the well-known undershrub of the Western Himalaya, 
barely 2-3 ft. high with pale yellow flowers and red berries, I 
found in the Eastern Himalaya one which grew into a small 
gone through the pen of the material in the Herbarium at 
Kew and compared w it Mr. Lacaita’s specimens as well as 
those which I myself ileal at various times hg on forest 
work both in the Western and Eastern Himalay 
Apparently, the first specimens collected were Je obtained 
by Wallich in Nepal in 1821 and issued as Cat. 68574. It 
would seem that it was on these specimens that De Candolle in 
1824 based his Limonia? Laureola, DC. Prodr. i. The 
description is very brief, “ foliis simplicibus, floribus terminali- 
bus aa Tee Folia exacte Daphnes Laureo lae. 
self with plate nore i as Lonenia Laureola, Wa n Pl. 
ar. p. 23, t. 245 (1832). The plate gives an 1 exellent deren 
sentation of the flowering stage o co species of the 
short terminal flowering ‘cuatan e leaves are given as 
Winey deseri _are (1 own from Ne el sso 
n Sirmore, “probably "Wall. Cat. 6357B, and 3) speci- 
mens oer heer by Blinkworth in Kumaon which I a. not 
seen 
