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2.5-4 mm. longi, villosi, demum glabri; Btipulae lineari-Ianceolatae, petiolum 

 fere aequantes, utrinque plerumque dentibus 2-4 adpressis. Corymbus terminalis, 

 leviter convexus v. fere planus, 2.5-3 cm. diam., axibus subangularibus villosia, brac- 

 teis bracteolisque persistentibus lineari-lanceolatis plerumque pauciserratis dentibua 

 ut apex glandula brunnea terminatis, inferioribua plerumque foliaceis, glabrescenti- 

 bus; axes secundarii 3-1-flori; pedicelli 2-5 mm. longi; flores albi, 9-10 mm. 

 diam.; calycis tubus turbinatus, 3 mm. diam., extus sparse villosus, dentes sub- 

 erecti, late ovati, obtusi, glandula brunnea mucronati, rarius dentibus minutia 

 paucis instructi, intus glabri, extus sparse villosi v. glabri; petala patentia, sub- 

 orbicularia, plerumque leviter emarginata, 3.5 mm. diam.; stamina 20, petalis fere 

 dimidio breviora; ovarium semisuperum apice dense villoso, biloculare; styli 2, con- 

 nati ad medium usque villosi, staminibus pauUo breviores. Fructus desiderantur. 



A very distinct species which seems nearest to Eriobotrya prionophylla Franchet. 

 In general appearance it greatly differs from all other Photinias. The leaves 

 particularly by their venation recall those of Eriobotrya, but are much smaller, and 

 the inflorescence bears some slight resemblance to that of Raphiolepis. It may not 

 belong to Fhotinia at all, but as long as the fruit is unknown, it may provisionally 

 find its place here, as it agrees in the structure of its flower perfectly with Fhotinia. 



Western Szech'uan: Tung Valley, very rare, May 1904 (Veitch Exped. No. 

 3508). 



STRANVAESIA Lindl. 

 Determined by Alfred Rehder and E. H. Wilson.' 



Stranvaesia Davidiana Decaisne in Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, X. 179 

 (1874). 



Stranvaesia Henryi Diels in Bot. Jahrb. XXXVI. 52 (1905). 



Western Szech'uan; Pan-lan-shan, west of Kuan Hsien, cliffs, 

 alt. 2300 m., June and October (No. 1064; bush 1.25-3 m. tall, flowers 

 white, fruit scarlet); Mount Omei, October 1903 (Veitch Exped. 

 No. 3505; bush 1-3.5 m. tall); Mount Omei, June 1904 (Veitch 

 Exped. No. 4872; bush 6 m. tall). 



Number 3505 agrees exactly with Diels' description of his S. Henryi, but with the 

 several specimens before us we are unable to separate it, from S. Davidiana Decaisne. 

 Here also probably belongs Henry's No. 11,325 from Yunnan, which has thinner and 

 broader leaves than the type and^longer petioles. 



Stranvaesia Davidiana, var. imdulata, Rehder & Wilson, n. comb. 



Stranvaesia undulata Decaisne in Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, X. 179 (1874). — 

 Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXIII. 264 (1887). — Schneider, III. Handb. 

 Laubholzk. I. 713, fig. 394 f-i (1906). — Stapf in Bot. Mag. CXXXVIII. t. 

 8418, (1912). 



Western Hup'eh: north and south of Ichang, thickets, alt. 1300- 

 2000 m., July and October (No. 382; bush 2-4 m. tall, flowers white, 

 fruit coral-red): Pao-kang Hsien, August 1901 (Veitch Exped. No. 

 1067). Szech'uan: South Wushan, A. Henry (No. 5698). 



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