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coriaceous leaves are oblong-oblanceolate, 14-15 cm. long, abruptly acute or shortly 

 acuminate, narrowed at the base, shining green above and glaucescent and reticu- 

 late beneath and sparsely coated with short, villose pubescence, particularly on the 

 veins; the gynaeceum is villose. A picture of this tree will be found under No. 

 0200 of the collection of Wilson's photographs. 



LmiODENDRON L. 



Liriodendron chinense Sargent, Trees & Shrubs, I, 103, t. 52 

 (1903). — Hemsley in Gard. Chron. ser. 3, XXXIV. 370 (1903); in 

 Hooker's Icon. XXVIII. t. 2785 (1905). —Wilson in Flora & Sylva, 

 III. 202 (1905). — Schneider, III. Handb. Laubhohk. I. 340, fig. 218 d 

 (1905). — Bean in Gard. Chron. ser. 3, XLIV. 429, fig. 175 (1908). 



Ldriodendron sp. nov.f Le Marchant Moore in Jour. Bot. XIII. 225 (1875). 

 Liriodendron Tulipifera, var.? chinense Hemsley in Jour. Ldnn. Soc. XXIII. 25 



(1886). — Finet & Gagnepain in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, LII. Mem. IV. 48 



(1905); Contrib. Fl. As. Or. II. 48 (1907). 

 Liriodendron Tulipifera, var. sinensis Diels in Bot. Jahrh. XXIX. 322 (1900). 



Kiangsi: Ruling, thickets, alt. 1300 m., July 31, 1907 (No. 1630; 

 tree 6-12 m. tall, girth 0.5-2 m., bark gray, rough and fissured on 

 old trees); Kiukiang, 1873, G. Shearer. Western Hupeh: Fang 

 Hsien, thickets and woodlands, alt. 1000-1500 m., May 19 and 

 October 1907 (No. 413, in part; tree 8-16 m. tall, girth 0.6-2.3 m., 

 flowers yellow within, greenish without) ; same locality, October 1910 

 (No. 413, in part; tree 16 m. tall, girth 1.3 m.); Patung Hsien, woods, 

 alt. 1300 m., June 1907 (No. 413, in part; tree 6-10 m. tall); without 

 locahty, June and September, 1900 (Veitch Exped. No. 1049) ; without 

 locality, A. Henry (No. 5836^); Chienshih Hsien, A. Henry (No. 5836). 



Formerly this tree was very abundant on the Lushan mountains in the neighbor- 

 hood of Kiukiang, but all the large trees have been cut down and only odd speci- 

 mens and dense bushes remain. In north-western Hupeh it is fairly common in 

 the moist woodlands. Compared with the American species the Chinese Lirio- 

 dendron is relatively a small tree. A colloquial name in Hvipeh is " Wo-chang- 

 chiu " = Goose-foot, which has reference to the shape of the leaves. A picture of 

 this tree will be found under No. 0114 of the collection of Wilson's photographs. 



KA.DSURA Juss. 



Kadsura peltigera Rehder & Wilson, n. sp. 



Frutex scandens 2.5-4 m. altus, glaber; ramuli teretes, lenticellati, 

 annotini purpureo-f usci ; gemmae ovoideae, acutae, perulis paucis 

 ciliatis persistentibus. Folia coriacea, oblonga v. oblongo-oblanceolata, 



