bb WILSON EXPEDITION TO CHINA 



pillosa. Racemi absque pedunculo foliato 11-23 cm. longi, sec. cl. 

 Wilson plus minus penduli, glabri v. (saepe in racemis ex eodem ramo 

 primario ortis) pulverulento-velutini ; pedicelli 2-6 mm. longi; cu- 

 pula 2-3 mm. longa, 3-4.5 mm. lata, intus infra medium villosa; sepala 

 breviter glanduloso-fimbriata; petala 2-4.5 mm. longa, rotundata v. 

 obovato-rotundata, vix eroso-denticulata; stamina 18-33, majora 

 petalis parum v. paullulum longiora; pistillum circ. 4 mm. longum, 

 glabrum, stylus sepala circ. aequans. Fructus ut videtur 5-7 mm. 

 diam.; putamen 4-5.5 mm. longum, 4-5 mm. diam., hinc carinatum, 

 obsoletissime rugosum, durum. 



Western Szech'uan: southeast of Tachien-lu, woodlands, alt. 

 1500-2200 m., June 1908 (No. 2843); Nin-tou-shan, west of Kuan 

 Hsien, woodlands, alt. 1800 m., June 20, 1908 (No. 2846); Mupin, 

 woodlands, alt. 1500-1800 m., August 1908 (No. 899); Nanch'uan, 

 1901, A. von Rosthorn; without locaHty, A. Henry (Nos. 5739, 5763). 

 Western Hupeh: Hsing-shan Hsien, woods, alt. 1200-2300 m., 

 July and August 1907 (No. 190) ; Changyang Hsien, woods, alt. 1200- 

 1500 m., September 1907 (No. 115); north and south of Ichang, 

 woodlands, alt. 900-1500 m., June 1, 1907 (No. 2839, as to flowering 

 branches; the fruiting branches belong to P. venosa); without locality, 

 A. Henry (No. 5988). Northern Shensi: G. Giraldi (Nos. 1141, 

 5200). 



This variety is often confounded in collections with P. ssiori F. Schmidt 



Prunus brachypoda, var. microdonta Koehne, n. var. 



Arbor 10-metralis trunco 40 cm. diam. Petioli 12-26 mm. longi, 

 biglandulosi; lamina e basi rotundata v. vix subcordata oblonga v. 

 lanceolata (3.5-11 cm. longa, 1.3-3.3 cm. lata), longe paullatim v. 

 subcaudato-acuminata, minutim serrulata dentibus saepe quasi ad 

 mucronem reductis porrectis v. incumbentibus, subtus glabra v. in 

 axillis nervorum barbata, sub microscopio subtus scabrido-papillosa. 

 Racemi 14-18 cm. longi, glabri; petala 3 mm. longa, 2.5 mm. lata; 

 stamina c. 29 petalis parum longiora; pistillum 3 mm. longum. 

 Putamen 4-5 mm.: 4.5-5 mm.: 3.5 mm. Cetera ut in var. pseudo- 

 ssiori. 



Western Hupeh: Chang-lo Hsien, woods, alt. 1200-1500 m., 

 April and September 1907 (Nos. 2836, 2838); without locality, 1901 

 (Veitch Exped. No. 2255). 



Prunus obtusata Koehne, n. sp. 



Arbor 8-13-metralis trunco 30-50 cm. diam., ramuli juveniles 



