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Peninsula; but there is no other record of Sambucus occurring 
*there. Atthe same time the specimen which Wight and Arnott 
mention as being in their possession and which might have some 
note concerning its origin attached to it is neither at Kew nor in 
the Arnott herbarium at Glasgow and is probably lost. 
S. Ebulus is characterised by having erect stamens with purple 
anthers and somewhat large flowers ; whereas in S. Wightiana the 
stamens are spreading with yellow anthers and the flowers much 
smaller, 
Wightiana is more closely allied to S. adnata Wall. from 
which it differs, however, in the glabrous or almost glabrous 
species, 
Short differential diagnoses of §, Kbulus and of the Indian 
species are given below. 
8. Ebulus, Zinn. 
inflorescence 3, stout, glabrescent, leafy at the base. Flowers 
about 1 cm. in diameter, tinged with red. Stamens erect; filaments 
Distribution :—Chitral: Shandar Province, Giles, 650! Kashmir: 
Sonamarg, 8500 ft. Clarke, 30903! Sind Valley, Thomson ! 
Henderson ! Kishtwar, 8000-9000 ft., Thomson! without precise 
locality, Falconer ! Punjab: Chamba, Pangi Valley, Allis, 3472! 
without locality, Wallich, 6303 | : 
uthie, in a report on a botanical tour in Kashmir (Records Bot. 
Survey of India, vol. i., n.i., p. 43), mentions this plant (as 8. Lbulus) 
as being a common weed near villages in the Sind, Liddar, and 
other valleys of Kashmir. 
* Lawrence in hij — i eas 
as takag nt Dro in his account of the Valley of Kashmir p. 92, gives the flowers 
