Xanthoceras, Delavaya. 



1475 



56 t. 3; Diels, Fl. Gentral-Ghina in Engler's Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. 2. (1900) 451; Schiller 

 in Sitzungsber. Akad. Wiss. Wien GXII. 1. (1903) t. 1 f. 15-18; Schneider, lUustr. 

 Handb. II. (1809) 256; T. Nakai, Fl. Koreana II. (1911) 463; Silva Tarouca, Freiland- 

 Laubgeh. (1913) 376; Loesener, Prodr. Fl. Tsingtauensis (1918) 152; 

 W. Vischer, Notes prelim. sur la floraison de Xanthoceras sorhifolium, 

 in Bull. Soc. bot. Geneve 2. ser. X. (1918) 258; Warburg, Pflanzen- 

 welt II. (1921) 356 f. 235^; Klein, Ziersträucher u. Parkbäume in 

 Samml. naturw. Taschenb. X. (1923) 66, c. tab. color. — Vulgo: 

 >>Ouen koang chu<< s. »wen Kuan shu<< in Peking (t. Bretschnei- 

 der, 1. c). — Gharacter ut supra. 



Arbuscula 3 — 4 m alta. Folia 20 — 25 cm longa, obhque paten- 

 tia; foHola 3 — 5 cm longa, 7 — 12 mm lata, dentibus 2 — 3 mm longis. 

 Racemi 12 — 15( — 20) cm longi, multiflori*). Flores diametro sub 

 4 cm, pedicellis 12 — 15 mm longis; sepala 6 — 7 mm longa, basi 2 mm 

 lata; petala margine crenulata, alba, basi vel rosea (in flores ^J) vel 

 (in fl. hermaphr.) flavida, nervoso-striolata, 2 cm longa, 7 — 8 mm 

 lata; disci cornua aurantiaca ad 4 — 5 mm longa; stamina ad 15 mm 

 longa, antheris 2,5 mm longis. Gapsula matura diametro ultra 5 cm. 

 Semina circ. 1,8 cm longa, 1,5 cm lata, edulia »grati saporis, castanei 

 haud dissimiHs, a Sinis comeduntur<< (ex Hance, 1. c). — Fig. 46. 



In Ghina septentrionali et Korea indigena: China: Lind- 

 ley! (Hb. Monac); Tatarinow!; Bunge!; Bretschneider! (prov. 

 Ghili, near Peking, ex Forbes et Hemsley, 1. c. [1886]); Giraldi 

 n. 1164, 1165 (Ghina centrali-septentr., Tu kio, fl. m. Mai.); Tsingtau 

 (ex Loesener, 1. c); — in Korea septentrionali: Komarov (ad 

 fluvium Tumingan, circa oppidum Gherieng, 18. Maj. 1897). 



Gült, ob flores amoenos in multis hortis. 



Fig. 46. Xantho- 

 ceras sorbifolium 

 Bunge. FIos, se- 

 palis petalisque 

 remotis, disci 

 processibus cor- 

 niformibus in- 

 signis. — See. 

 Radlkofer in 

 Engl. u. Prantl, 

 Nat. Pflanzen- 

 fam. III. 5, 364 

 Fig. 182. 



Species e familia excludenda: 



X. enkianthiflora Leveille in Fedde, Repert. XII. (1913) 534 n. 1280 = 

 Staphylea holocarpa Hemsley; cf. A. Rehder in Journ. Arnold Arbor. XV. (1934) 1; 

 Staphyleacea. 



In Ghina: Prov. Kouy-Tcheou: Tou-Ghan (Em. Bodinier, sine n.). 



142. Delavaya Franchet. 



Delavaya Franchet, PL Yunnannens. in Bull. Soc. bot. France XXXIII. (1886) 

 462 et PL Delavayanae Livr. IL (1889) 142 t. 27, 28!; Radlk. in Sitzungsber. bayer. 

 Akad. XX. (1890) 272, 294 (sub Cossignieis) et in Engl. u. Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 

 III. 5. (1895) 364 {sub Har pullieis); Hsen-Hsu Hu in Bull. Fan Memorial Institute of 

 Biology I. 2. (1929) 39; Handel-Mazzetti, Symb. sinic. VII. (1933) 639. 



Flores spurie polygami, (J in diversis inflorescentiis et ramis (plantis?) a $ (^ men- 

 tientibus), reguläres, conspicui, rubicundi. Sepala 5, rotundata, concava, late imbricata, 

 glabra, exteriora 2 minora, persistentia. Petala 5, elliptico-oblonga, sepala plus duplo 

 superantia, tenera, glabra, plurinervia, perbreviter unguiculata, supra unguem squama 

 lata obovata truncata vel subquadrata emarginata vel breviter biloba libera laxe 

 pilosula intus ante marginem superiorem fimbriata aucta, patentia. Discus pulvinaris, 

 fere breviter columnaris, strictura annulari quasi duplicatus, basi paullulum expansus, 

 obtuse pentagohus vel leviter 5-lobus, lobis episepaleis, margine superiore in cupulam 

 tenuiter carnosulam submembranaceam superne dilatatam lobulatam saepius J^ recur- 

 vatam pressione staminum undulato-plicatam intus 8-sulcatam productus, glaber. 

 Stamina 8, intra discum inserta, in alabastro bis genuflexa, petala paullulum superantia 



*) See. W. Vischer dimorph!, partim maseuli, partim floribus hermaphroditis i 



intermixti. 



