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Western Hupeh: Patung Hsien, thickets, alt. 1300-2000 m., 

 September 1907 (No. 158; climber 3 m., fruits orange and red); 

 Changyang Hsien, thickets, June 1901 (Veitch Exped. No. 2234, type). 



This distinct and handsome species is rather rare. 

 Schisandra sphenanthera Rehder & Wilson, n. sp. 



Schizandra chinensis Diels in Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. 322 (non Baillon) (1900). — 

 Finet & Gagnepain in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, LII. Mem. IV. 49 (1905); 

 Contrib. Fl. As. Or. 11 49 (pro parte, non Baillon) (1907). — Pampanini in 

 Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. n. ser. XVII. 275 (1910). 



Frutex scandens, 3-5-metralis; ramuli graciles, glabri, fusco-pur- 

 purei, lenticellati ; gemmae ovoideae, obtusae, squamulis nitidulis con- 

 spersae, perulis paucis sparse ciliatis, inferioribus persistentibus parvis. 

 Folia late obovata v. late ovalia, interdum fere orbicularia, rarius 

 elliptica, acuminata, plerumque breviter subito acuminata, basi late 

 cuneata, minute denticulata, rarius Integra, 6-10 cm. longa et 3-7 cm. 

 lata, supra atroviridia, subtus pallidiora, glabra; petioli supra sulcati, 

 glabra, 2-3 cm. longa. Flores solitarii, axillares in axillis foliorum 

 inferiorum et perularum, 1.5-2 cm. diam., extus virescentes, intus 

 aurantiaci; pedunculi graciles, in floribus masculis 2-3.5 cm. longi, 

 in femineis 3-6 cm. longi; sepala petalaque circiter 9, late ovalia v. 

 oblonga 8-12 mm. longa et 3.7 mm. lata, obtusa; androecium ambitu 

 obconicum apice fere applanatum v. convexum, circiter 5 mm. longum, 

 staminibus 10-15, plus minusve inaequalibus et irregularibus, antheris 

 cuneato-obovatis apice emarginatis v. truncatis rarius rotundatis basi 

 in filamentum brevissimum attenuatis, loculis rectis; gynaeceum 

 conicum, 5 mm. longum, carpellis ovoideis, punctulatis, stigmate 

 applanato irregulari. Fructus 6-8 cm. longus, scarletinus; pedunculus 

 3.5-6 cm. longus; rhachis incrassata, carnosa, colorata; carpella sub- 

 globosa 10-12 mm. diam., breviter stipitata, plerumque breviter 

 rostrata; semina fere reniformia, 3.5-4.5 lata, brunnea. 



Western Hupeh : Patung Hsien, thickets, alt. 1300-1600 m., May 

 and September 1907 (No. 313, type); Hsing-shan Hsien, thickets, 

 alt. 1300-2000 m., May and September 1907 (Nos. 2553, 2554, 245); 

 Fang Hsien, alt. 1600-2300 m., September 1907 (No. 263, fruiting 

 specimen only); Changyang Hsien, May 1900 (Veitch Exped. No. 

 675); Nanto, May 1900 (Veitch Exped. No. 779); without locality, 

 April, June and July 1900 (Veitch Exped. Nos. 179% 1036, 1968); 

 without locality, A. Henry (Nos. 3446, 3469, 4059). Kiangsi : Ku- 



