FLACOURTIACEAE. 



Determined by E. H. Wilson. 



Xylosma racemosum Miquel in Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. II. 155 (1865- 

 66).— Hemsley in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXIII. 57 (1886). 



Hisingera racemosa Siebold & Zuccarini, Fl. Jap. I. 169, 189, t. 88, 100 fig. III. 



1-14 (1835). 

 Hisingera japonica Siebold & Zuccarini in Ahh. Akad. Miinch. IV. 2, 168 {Fl, 



Jap. Fam. Nat. I. 60) (1845). 

 Xylosma japonicum Gray in Mem. Am. Acad. VI. 381 (1854). — Hance in 



Jour. Bot. VIII. 275 (1870); XVI. 8 (1878). 

 Flacourtia chinensis Clos in Ann. Sci. Nat. ser. 4, VIII. 219 (1857). 

 Myroxylon racemosum O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. I. 44 (1891). 



Chekiang: vicinity of Ningpo, 1908, D. Macgregor. Korea: Quel- 

 paert, woods, October 1908, E. J. Taquet (No. 567). 



The type does not occur in central or western China, and all the specimens we 

 have seen from these regions are referable to the following variety. 



j Xylosma racemosum, var. pubescens Rehder & Wilson, n. var. 



Myroxylon racemosum Diels in Bot. Jahrb. XXIX 478 (1900).— Pampanini 

 m Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. XVII. 674 (1900). 



A typo recedit ramulis hornotinis pubescentibus. 



Western Hupeh: Ichang, commonly planted around shrines, 

 alt. 40-600 m., September and December 1907 (No. 1253, in part, type; 

 tree 6-20 m. tall, fruit black); Ichang and immediate neighborhood, 

 A. Henry (No. 7766). Western Szech'uan: Ya-chou Fu, alt. 

 300-1000 m., September and November 1908 (No. 1253, in part; tree 

 16-25 m. tall). Yunnan: Mengtze, ravine 1500 m. A. Henry (No. 

 10804). 



This is the Tung-ching (Winter-green) of the Chinese and one of the handsomest 

 of their evergreen trees. It is commonly found planted over shrines and tombs. 

 The tree reaches a height of 20 m. and is more or less spiny particularly while 

 young and on the short inner branches. Photographs of this tree will be found 

 under Nos. 2, 12, 472, 533, 627 and 0164 of Wilson's photographs and also in hia 

 Vegetation of Western China, Nos. 191, 217 and 498-500. 



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