ROSACE AE. — PRUNUS 67 



basi glabri, apice pulverulento-velutini, vetustiores intense fusci baud 

 nitentes, lenticellis pallidis sparsis. Petioli 10-20 mm. longi, glabri, 

 apice plerumque 1-2-glandulosi ; lamina e basi rotundata v. vix sub- 

 cordata oblonga v. inverse oblonga v. ovato-oblonga (sub anthesi 3-7 

 cm. longa 1.3-3.2 cm. lata), nullo modo acuminata, obtusa v. ob- 

 tusissima v. subemarginata, minutissime serrulata dentibus saepe ad 

 glandulam reductis, glaberrima, supra laete viridis, subtus parum 

 pallidior reticulo tenerrimo intensius colorato, epapillosa. Racemi 

 erecto-patentes, absque pedunculo foliato 6-20 cm. longi, pulverulento- 

 velutini V. puberuli; pedicelli 1-6 mm. longi; cupula 2 mm. longa, 

 3 mm. lata, infeme pulverulenta, ceterum glabra, intus infra medium 

 villosa; sepala 1 mm. longa, obtusa, breviter glanduloso-fimbriata; 

 petala 3-5 mm. longa, rotundata, subintegra; stamina 20-29, majora 

 petala parum superantia v. aequantia v. iisdem triente breviora; 

 pistillum 3-4.5 mm. longum, glabrum, stylus sepala circ. aequans. 

 Fructus ignotus. 



Western Szech'uan: Tachien-lu, woods, alt. 1800 m., May 1908 

 (No. 977 as to flowering branches; the fruiting branches belong to 

 P. bicolor); Mupin, woodlands, alt. 1500-1800 m., June 1908 (No. 

 2845, as to flowering branches; the fruiting branches belong to P. pubi- 

 gera); Wa-shan, woodlands, alt. 1800-2100 m., June 1908 (No. 2844). 



This species seems to bear in its habit a rather striking resemblance to cer- 

 tain forms until now referred to P. demissa Walpers. 



Pninus pubigera Koehne, n. sp. rr:. p. >o-va<'(i-*«Lt^ 



Padus brachypoda, var. pubigera C. K. Schneider in Fedde, Rep. Nov. Sp. ' 



I. 70 (1905); III. Handb. Laulholzk. I. 638 (1906). 



Arbor 6-20-metrahs trunco 20-100 cm. diam. ; ramuli juveniles 

 fuscescentes, puberulo-velutini, vetustiores validi, nigricantes v. pur- 

 pureo-fusci, plus minus glabrati, lenticellis ovalibus pallidis; gemmae 

 5-8 mm. longae, conicae, fuscae, glabrae. Petioli 8-27 mm. longi, ple- 

 rumque puberulo-velutini, saepissime 1-2-glandulosi; lamina e basi 

 cuneata v. rotundata v. cordata late inverse oblonga v. obovato- 

 oblonga v. obovata (3-11.5 cm. longa 1.2-6 cm. lata), breviter leviter 

 V. parum acuminata, apice obtusiuscula valide mucronata, minutim 

 V. minutissime serrulata dentibus saepe fere ad glandulam reductis, 

 supra glabra v. in costa pulverulenta, subtus glabra v. in nervorum 

 axillis subbarbata, supra laete viridis, subtus manifeste pallidior v. 

 subalbicans venis validioribus prominulis reticulo pallido v. rarissime 

 intensius colorato, subtus baud v. breviter scabrido-papillosa. Ra- 

 cemi absque pedunculo foliato 7-14 cm. longi, puberuli v. pulveru- 



