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1. Delavay, No. 317 bis. This is typical P. obconica, 



Hance. See p. 303 and Plate XXIII. 



2. A specimen collected " about Ichang " by Watters. 



The same collector and same locality as for 

 Hance's type P. obconica, Hance. See p. 303 

 and Plate XXI. Presumably the specimens are 

 alike, but I have not seen a Paris sheet. 



3. Delavay, No. 317. See p. 322 and Plate XXXV. A 



truly hispid form, as is also 



4. Specimen collected by David in Moupin. See p. 323 



and Plate XXXVI. Both of these have also lobed 

 leaves and are not quite typical P. obconica, 

 Hance, but are nearer the form of it, which gave 

 us the name P. poculiformis, Hook. f. 



5. Specimen collected at Koui-Tcheou by Simon. I 



have not seen this. 



The specimens I have photographed give us an idea of 

 what Franchet meant by his var. hispida — really two 

 forms of P. obconica, Hance. 



Under var. ( b) rotundifolia Franchet cites two types : — 



1. Delavay, No. 307 ; 3, iii, 83. Lankong. See p. 333 



and Plate L. 



2. Delavay, No. 845. Lankong. See p. 333 and Plate 



LI. 

 These remind one of P. sinolisteri, Balf. fil., in their 

 form, but differ from it in vestiture. They are not P. 

 Listeri, King. Before saying more about these let me add 

 that — 



Under var. (c) glabrescens Franchet cites one type : — 



Delavay, No. 307; 31, iii, 87. Tsang-chan. This 



type I have not seen from the Paris Herbarium, 



but at Kew there is one gifted by Paris and 



named var. glabrescens. I have examined it and 



find that it exactly matches Delavay, No. 845. 



Note then that Delavay 's No. 307 includes both var. (6) 



and var. (c) of Franchet. Under the same number I have 



also a Paris sheet with a plant which exact!} 7 matches 



Delavay, No. 317. There has been some mixing of forms 



therefore. But apart from this I also note that neither 



the Lankong nor Tsang-chan specimens (Delavay, No. 307) 



correspond with Franchet's description of his var. 



