CAPRIFOLIACEAE.i 



Determined by Alfred Rehder. 



SAMBUCUS L} 



Sambucus Wightiana Wallich apud Wight & Arnott, Prodr. Fl. 

 Ind. I. 388 (1834). — Walpers, Rep. II. 453 (1843). — Hutchinson in 

 Kew Bull Misc. Inform. XXII. 192 (1909).— Schwerin in Mitt. Deutsch. 

 Dendr. Ges. XVIII. 27 (1909). 



Sambucus Wightiana Wallich, Cat. No. 6308 (nomen nudum )(1828). 

 Sambucus Ebulus Hooker f. & Thomson in Jour. Linn. Soc. II. 179 (not 



Linnaeus) (1858). — Clarke in Hooker f., Fl. Brit. Ind. III. 2 (1880). — 



Brandis, Indian Trees, 364 (1906). 

 Sambucus Gautschii Wettstein in Oestr. Bot. Zeitschr. XL. 230 (1890). 



Western Hupeh: Fang Hsien, moist places, abundant, alt. 1800- 

 2700 m., June 16, 1910 (No. 4490; about 1 m. tall, flowers white). 

 Western Himalayas: Kishtwar, alt. 2000-3000 m., T. Thomson 

 (as S. Ebulus). 



Wilson's specimen agrees exactly with Thomson's specimen from Kishtwar; the 

 upper leaflets are adnate at the base and decurrent in both specimens. From S. 

 adnata Wallich it is easily distinguished by the long-peduncled, leafless and glabrous 

 inflorescence and by the coarser more spreading teeth of the leaflets. 



Sambucus Schweriniana Rehder, n. sp. 



Suifrutex ut videtur, 1-1.5 m. altus ramis herbaceis, glabris, striatis. 

 Folia (ea ramuU fructiferi tantum vidi) impari-pinnata, glabra, laete 

 luteo-viridia, concoloria, 10-14 cm. longa; foliola 5-7, oblongo-lanceo- 

 lata, rarius elliptico-oblonga v. oblongo-ovata, acuminata, basi valde 

 inaequalia, inferiora petiolata petiolulis ad 5 mm. longis, superiora 

 rhachi adnata et decurrentia, serrata dentibus erecto-patentibus apice 

 glandula conica munitis, nervis utrinsecus 7-11 utrinque leviter ele- 

 vatis curvatis; petioli ut rhachis glabri, 1.5-2.5 cm. longi; stipulae 

 subulatae, circiter 5 mm. longae. Corymbus fructifer umbeHiformis, 

 fere planus, longe pedunculatus pedunculo 9 cm. longo nudo apicem 

 versus puberulo, radiis 5 valde inaequalibus, puberulis v. sursum ut 



^ See also p. 106. 

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