380 WILSON EXPEDITION TO CHINA 



fere aequiformia, ovata, basi cuneata, integra, vix obliqua, apice 

 longe acuminata, margine a medio ad apicem utrinque spinis 2 late 

 triangularibus sinuato-dentata, circiter 6: 2.5 cm. magna, infima pauUo 

 minora, terminalia pauUo majora (ad 8:3.2 cm.). Racemi ad 14 cm. 

 longi, satis densiflori, eorum bracteae satis parvae, late triangulares, 

 breviter acutae, circiter 1:0.8 cm. magnae; flores extus rubescentes, 

 circiter 6 mm. diam.; pedicelli 2-3 mm. longi, bracteis ovatis paullo v. 

 vix longiores; sepala tantum 6, externa ovato-oblonga, internis simili- 

 bus breviora; petala late oblonga, sepalis aequilonga, apice bifida, basi 

 brevissime unguiculata, glandulifera; stamina petalis breviora, nor- 

 malia; filamenta antheris paullo longiora; ovaria ovulis 2 sessilibus 

 instructa. Fructus nondum vidi. 



Western Szech'uan: Hungya Hsien, red sandstone cliffs, alt. 

 1100 m., September 1908 (No. 2881). 



Mahonia nitens is a very distinct species, resembling in its shining leaves M. 

 nepalensis De Candolle which, however, belongs to a different group of this section. 



Malionia Fortunei Fedde, in Bot. Jahrh. XXXI. 130 {Monog. Ma- 

 honia) (1901). 



Berheris Fortunei Lindley in Jour. Hort. Soc. Lond. I. 231, 300, fig. (1846). 



Western Szech'uan: Yachou Fu, woodlands, alt. 500-800 m., 

 September 1908 (No. 2882; bush 0.60-1.30 m. tall, flowers yellow). 

 Tao-thuashan-shu, 1891, A. vonRosthorni'No. 144, ex Fedde). Hupeh : 

 1888, A. Henry (No. 3117). 



This is one of the most distinct species of this genus. The type was collected 

 by Fortune (No. 32) near Shanghai, in gardens. 



CONSPECTUS SPECIERUM ASIATICARUM ADHUC COGNITARUM.^ 



Fructus (v. ovaria) styhs distinctis coronati. 



Jugum infimum mininum foliolorum basi petioli valde approximatum. 

 Foliola dentibus utrinque non plus quam 10 instructa. 

 Nervi primarii foliolorum subtus distincte elevati. 



Foliola supra viridia, sed obscura, hand distincte nitentia. 



Foliola ovata v. late ovata, v. in var. Bealei subrotunda, spinis utrinque 



4-6 1- M.japonica. 



Foliola ovato-lanceolata, spinis utrinque (5-)7-9 ... 2. M. fiavida. 

 Fohola lanceolata, spinis utrinque 4-6 2. M. Zemanii. 



1 Of Mahonia trifurca Loudon, Encycl. PI. Suppl. II. 1346 (1842); Fedde, 

 1. c. 125 {Berheris trifurca Lindley, in Paxton, Flow. Gard. III. p. 57, fig. 258 

 [1852/3]) I have not yet seen flowers or fruits. 



