188 WILSON EXPEDITION TO CHINA 



Photinia Beauverdiana, var. notabilis Rehder & Wilson, n. comb. 

 Photinia notabilis Schneider, III. Handb. Laubholzk. I. 711, (1906). 



Western Hup'eh: without locality, May 1900 (Veitch Exped. 

 No. 359, type) ; Changyang Hsien, woods, alt. 1300 m., October 1907 

 (No. 468; thin tree 6 m. tall, fruit orange-red); Fang Hsien, alt. 

 1300-2000 m., November 1907 (No. 629; thin tree 6 m. tall, fruits 

 red); Hsing-shan Hsien, woods, alt. 1300-1600 m., June 1907 (No. 

 2969; thin flat-topped tree 10 m. tall, flowers white); Chang-lo Hsien, 

 woods, alt. 1000-1500 m.. May and July 1907 (No. 2973, in part; tree 

 6 m. tall, flowers white). 



This variety has rather thicker, more prominently veined leaves and longer 

 corymbs than the type, but with the mass of material before us we cannot maintain 

 it as a distinct species. The leaves on our specimens measure, excluding the 

 petiole, 9-12 cm. Schneider cites for this variety leaves 9-13 cm. long; otherwise 

 our specimens fit his description exactly. 



p,/>^t.vt-*"-^''**^^' Photinia Schneideriana Rehder & Wilson, n. sp. 



Arbor circiter 6-metralis, gracilis; ramuli hornotini laxe villosi, 

 demum glabrescentes, annotini glabri, purpureo-fusci, vetustiores 

 grisei, lenticellati; gemmae ovoideae, acutiusculae, atro-brunneae, 

 glabrae. Folia ' decidua, membranacea, oblongo-lanceolata, rarius 

 oblongo-elliptica, longe acuminata, basi late cuneata, 6-11 cm., plerum- 

 que 8-9 cm. longa et 2-5.5 cm., plerumque 3-3.5 cm. lata, supra 

 luteo-viridia, initio sparse villosula, mox glabra, subtus pallidiora, 

 tomento laxo villoso facile detergendo sed ad maturitatem persistente 

 obtecta, nervis utrinsecus 10-15 utrinque leviter elevatis; petioli 6- 

 10 mm. longi, initio villosi, demum glabri. Corymbus terminalis, 

 multiflorus, 5-7 cm. diam., laxe et sparse villosus; axes secundarii gra- 

 ciliter pedunculati, 3-9-flori; pedicelli 3-8 mm. longi, glabri, fructiferi 

 verrucosi; calycis tubus turbinatus, 2-2.5 mm. longus et 4 mm. 

 diam., glaber, nigrescens (in sicco), dentes erecto-patentes, semi- 

 orbicularia, mucronulati, circiter 1 mm. longi, intus sursum pilosus; 

 petala patentia, suborbicularia, 4-4.5 mm. longa et 3.5-4 mm. lata, 

 apice rotundata, basi brevissime unguiculata, glabra; stamina 20, 

 petalis subaequilonga; ovarium semisuperum, apice villosum; styli 

 2-3, triente superiore excepta connati, glabri. Fructus ovoideus, 10 

 mm. longus et 8 mm. diam., scarlatinus, glaber, dentibus persistentibus 

 suberectis v. plus minus incurvis coronatus; semina plerumque 2-3, 

 ovoidea, 5-6 mm. longa, utrinque acutiuscula, obscure brunnea. 



Western Hupeh: Changyang Hsien, woodlands, alt. 1300-1600 



