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purple, oblong, 4.5-6 cm. or more long, about 2 cm. wide, somewhat tuberculate, 

 rounded; seeds apiculate, jet black, compressed, 4-5 mm. high, 5-6 mm. long. 



The colloquial name in Hupeh for this and other species is "Pa-j-ueh-cha." The 

 inner pulp of the fruit of this species is white, watery, rather sweet, but of insipid 

 flavor, and is eaten by the natives. 



Stauntonia brevipes Hemsley in Hooker^s Icon. XXIX. sub t. 2849 (1907) we 

 have not seen, but from the description we suspect that it is merely a state of 

 H. coriacea Diels. 



Holboellia grandiflora Reaubourg in Bidl. Soc. Bot. France, LIII. 

 453 (1906). — Gagnepain in Bull. Mus. Nat. Hist. Paris, XIV. 67 

 (1908). 



Western Szech'uan: Ching-chi Hsien, base of Ta-hsiang-ling, on 

 rocks, alt. 1300 m., May 1908 (No. 889, in part; climber 5-6 m., 

 flowers white, very fleshy, fragrant) ; Ching-chi Hsien, base of Wa-wu- 

 shan, thickets, alt. 1300-1600 m., September 14, 1908 (No. 889, in 

 part; chmber 6 m., fruit purple, edible); Ching-chi Hsien, on rocks, 

 foot of Ta-hsiang-ling, May 1904 (Veitch Exped. No. 3139). 



This handsome species is readily distinguished from all other species by its large 

 (3 cm. long) flowers, and by the very strongly reticulate venation of the leaves, 

 which are broadest above the middle and narrowed to the ends. The fruit is edible, 

 purple, 8-12 cm. long; the flowers very fleshy and delightfully fragrant. It is 

 apparently rare, being 1-mowTi to us from two localities only. 



Reaubourg (1. c.) quotes "Hupeh: 1905 Wilson." There is some mistake here; 

 1905 probably refers to the year the specimens were received in Paris. 



Holboellia Fargesii Reaubourg in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, LIH. 454 

 (1906). 



Holboellia angustifolia Diels in Bot. Jahrb. XXIX, 343 (non WalUch) (1900). 



— Reaubourg in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, ser. 4, VI. 452 (1906). 

 Holboellia angustijolial var. angustissima Diels in Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. 343 



(1900). 

 Stauntonia longipes Hemsley in Hooker's Icon. XXIX. t. 2848 (1907). 

 Holboellia latifolia Gagnepain in Bull. Mv^. Nat. Hist. Paris, XIV. 67 (pro 



parte, non Walhch) (1908). 



Western Hupeh: Hsing-shan Hsien, woodlands, alt. 1300-2000 

 m., May 21 and September 1907 (No. 166; climber 3-6 m., male flowers 

 greenish-white, female flowers purplish, fruit purple); Fang Hsien, 

 woodlands, alt. 1300-2000 m., May 30 and September 1907 (No. 

 2384; climber 3-6 m.; flowers greenish-white, fruit purple); same lo- 

 cality. May 26, 1907 (No. 2383; climber 3-6 m., male flowers white, 

 female flowers dull purple and green); without locality, May 1900 

 (Veitch Exped. Nos. 648, 648=^) ; without locality, A. Henry (Nos. 5256, 

 6256^). 



