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longis et 1.5-2.5 cm. latis, venis venulisque subtus conspicuis, floribus 

 minoribus, pedicellis tenuioribus. 



Western Szech'uan: Mupin, thickets, alt. 1300-1800 m., June 

 1908 (No. 2552, type; climber, 2-4 m., flowers orange-yellow); near 

 Tachien-lu, thickets, alt. 1300-1600 m., October 1908 (Nos. 1268, 

 1268*; climber, 2-3 m., fruit scarlet); without precise locality, July 

 1903 (Veitch Exped. No. 3134). 



This is a very distinct variety, easily recognized by its narrowly lanceolate leaves 

 by the smaller flowers on slender pedicels, and by the narrow, wavy ribs of the 

 branches, formed by a corky excrescence; in Nos. 1268" and 3134 the branches 

 are dark purple-brown and hke those of the type only shghtly or not at all ribbed; 

 it is common in the warm river valleys in western Szech'uan. 



Schisandra propinqua Hooker f. & Thomson in Hooker f., Fl. Brit. 

 Ind. I. 45 (1872).— King in Ann. Bot. Gard. Calcutta, III. 220 (1891).— 

 Finet & Gagnepain in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, LII. Mem. IV. 51 (1905) ; 

 Contrib. Fl. As. Or. II. 51 (1907). 



Kadsura propinqua WaUich, Fl. Tent. Nepal. II. t. 15 (1824). 

 Sphaerostema propinquum Blume, Fl. Jav. III. Fam. XII. 16 (Schizandreae) 

 (1828). — Hooker f. & Thomson, Fl. Ind. I. 85 (1855). 



Yunnan : Mengtze, rocks, 1600 m., A. Henry (No. 10719); Szemao, 

 mountains to south and west, alt. 1500-1600 m., A. Henry (Nos. 

 11893, 12192). 



No. 10719 in its foliage and smaller flowers shows an approach to the variety 

 sinensis from central and western China. 



Schisandra propinqua, var. sinensis Oliver in Hooker's Icon. XVIII. 

 1. 1715 (1887). — Diels in Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. 322 (1900). — Pampanini 

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



Schizandra propinqua, var. linearis Finet & Gagnepain in Bull. Soc. Bot. 

 France, LII. Mem. IV. 51 (1905); Contrib. Fl. As. Or. II. 51 (1907). 



Western Hupeh: Changyang Hsien, on rocks, alt. 600-1000 m., 

 July and November, 1907 (No. 485; climber, 1.5-2 m., flowers yellow- 

 ish, fruit scarlet, leaves marbled with white) ; without locahty, August 

 1900 (Veitch Exped. 1304); Ichang and immediate neighborhood, 

 A. Henry (Nos. 1544, 3699, 3961, 6219). Western Szech'uan: 

 Mupin, rocky places, alt. 1300-1600 m., October 1908 (No. 1070; 

 climber, 2-2.3 m., fruit scarlet); Wa-shan, roadsides, alt. 1300 m., 

 November 1908 (No. 1268^; climber 2 m., fruit scarlet). 



