118 WILSON EXPEDITION TO CHINA 



The discovery of a Chinese Symphoricarpos is highly interesting, as it adds one 

 more genus to the number of those formerly considered peculiar to the flora of 

 North America, but in recent years found also in western and central China, as 

 Nyssa, Sassafras, Linodendron, Decumaria and others. In the shape of the corolla 

 S. sinensis resembles most S. orbiculatus Michaux, but the color of the fruit and 

 the terminal peduncled inflorescence distinguishes it from all American species. 



DIPELTA Maxim. 



Dipelta floribunda Maximo wicz in Bull. Acad. Sci. St. Petershourg, 

 XXIV. 51 (1877); in Mel. Biol. X. 78. — Spooner in Gard. Chron. ser. 

 3, XLII. 2, fig. 1 (1907). — Hemsleyin Bot. Mag. CXXXVI. t. 8310 

 (1910). 



Western Hupeh: Patung Hsien, woodlands, alt. 1200-1500 m., 

 August 1907 (No. 2952); Hsing-shan Hsien, thickets, common, alt. 

 1200-1500 m., May 7, 25, and July 1907 (Nos. 2953, 2954, 2955); 

 Fang Hsien, sunny places, alt. 1200-1800 m., October 1910 (No. 

 4424). 



Dipelta ventricosa Hemsley in Gard. Chron. ser. 3, XLIV. 101, fig. 37 

 (1908). — Hutchison in Bot. Mag. CXXXVI. t. 8294 (1910). 



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

 2250 m., June 1908 (No. 2950); Wa-shan, woodlands, alt. 2400- 

 2700 m., June 1908 (No. 2951); Ching-ting-shan, thickets, alt. 

 1200-1500 m.. May 22, 1908 (No. 1036); Mupin, woods, alt. 1800- 

 2500 m., June and October 1908 and October 1910 (Nos. 1036% 4209); 

 Wa-ssu country, Wen-chuan Hsien, woodlands, alt. 1800-2500, July 

 and September 1908 (No. 1036); northeast of Sungpan, thickets, alt. 

 1800-2300 m., August 1910 (No. 4032). 



Nos. 1036" and 2950 differ from the plant described by Hemsley and from the 

 other specimens in the quite glabrous peduncles, pedicels and branchlets and in the 

 less pubescent leaves. Nos. 1036 and 2950 have apparently much paler flowers 

 ("pale purple " according to Wilson), than the type. 



ABELIA R. Br. 

 Abelia Graebneriana Rehder, n. sp. 



Ahelia uniflora Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXIII. 359 (in part as to the 

 Hupeh and Szech'uan specimens, not R. Brown) (1888). 



Abelia serrata Hance in Jour. Bot. XX. 6 (not Siebold & Zuccarini) (1882). 



Linnaea uniflora Graebner in Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. 131 (in part as to the 

 Hupeh and Szech'uan specimens, not A. Braun & Vatke) (1900). 



Linnaea serrata Graebner in Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. 133 (in part as to the Chinese 

 specimens) (1900). 



