MAGNOLIACEAE. — SCHISANDKA 415 



ling, thickets, alt. 1300 m., July 1907 (No. 1726). Eastern 

 Szech'uan: without locality, A. Henry (No. 5527»). Western 

 Szech'uan : Wa-shan, thickets, alt. 1300-2000 m.. May and Septem- 

 ber 1908 (No. 866, in part) ; near Mao-chou, thickets, alt. 1000-1600 

 m., May 21, 1908 (No. 866, in part); Mupin, thickets, alt. 1300- 

 1600 m., September 1908 (No. 866, in part); Mupin, thickets, alt. 

 1000-1600 m., June 1908 (No. 869); west and near Wen-ch'uan Hsien, 

 alt. 1600 m., September 1908 (No. 869=^); Hung-ya Hsien, thickets, 

 alt. 1300 m., September 14, 1908 (No. 897). Shensi: Tai-pei-shan, 

 1910, W. Purdom; " Monte di Kian-san," August 1909, G. Giraldi. 

 Yunnan: Feng-chen-lin, south of Red river, forests, alt. 2300 m., 

 A. Henry (No. 10697); Mengtze, woods, alt. 1800 m., A. Henry 

 (No. 11211); Szemao, mountains, alt. 1600-1800 m., A. Henry (Nos. 

 12022, 12022% 12022 1^). 



This is the common species of Schisandra in central and western China from the 

 river-level up to 1600 m. alt. It exhibits considerable variation in the size and shape 

 of the leaves, the size of the flowers and in the length of the pedicels. By Diels, 

 Finet & Gagnepain and others it has been confused with S. chinensis Baillon, 

 which is confined to Manchuria, Korea and Japan, and which is readily distinguished 

 by its 5 stamens with very narrow connectives and practically sessile anthers. 



Schisandra sphenanthera seems most nearly related to S. elongata Hooker f. & 

 Thomson, wliich differs chiefly in its subglobose androecium, in its sessile, nearly 

 equal and almost orbicular anthers with curved anther-cells and a very thick con- 

 nective rounded at the apex, in its nearly orbicular sepals and petals, and in its 

 rather narrower elliptic-ovate or ovate-oblong leaves. The only Chinese specimen 

 of S. elongata we have seen is one collected by Mr. Dunn in Fokien (Herb. Bot. 

 Gard. Hongkong, No. 2442); this agrees very well with the Himalayan specimens 

 before us, which may or may not be identical with the typical Javanese plant of 

 which we have seen no specimen. In common with other members of this family 

 this species is colloquially known in Hupeh as " Wu-wei-tzu." 



Schisandra sphenanthera, var. pubinervis Rehder & Wilson, n. var. 



A typo recedit praecipere foliis subtus ad venas dense fulvo-villosis. 



Western Szech'uan: near Monkong Ting, thickets, alt. 2000- 

 2300 m., June 19, 1908 (No. 2551, type). Western Hupeh: \^^th- 

 out locality, A. Henry (No. 6447). 



This variety is readily distinguished by the short, curled, rufous pubescence on 

 the under side of the veins of the leaves. Henry's specimen is much less pubescent 

 than the type and is in ripe fruit. This fruit is remarkable for its extreme length 

 being about 20 cm. long on a peduncle 8 cm. long. 



Schisandra sphenanthera, var. lancifolia Rehder & Wilson, n. var. 

 A typo recedit ramulis anguste suberoso-costatis pallidioribus lenti- 

 cellatis, foliis lanceolatis longe acuminatis remote denticulatis 4-8 cm. 



