HAMAMELIDACEAE. — SINOWILSONIA 429 



stellato-pilosi, mox glabrescentes, annotini et vetustiores pallide 

 cinereo-brunnci, vix lenticellati; gemmae breviter stipitatae, stellato- 

 tomentosae, eperulatae. Folia membranacea, obovata v. obovato- 

 oblonga, breviter acuminata, basi rotundata v. truncata, inaequaliter 

 sinuato-denticulata dentibus saepe mucroniformibus, 7-14 cm. longa 

 et 3.5-8.5 cm. lata, supra laete viridia, initio sparsissime fasciculato- 

 pilosa, mox glabrescentia costa media densius fasciculato-pilosa ex- 

 cepta, subtus pallidiora, ad nervos dense fasciculato-pilosa ceterum 

 fere glabra, nervis utrinsecus 6-10 subtus elevatis trabeculis elevatis 

 conjunctis; petioli dense fascicuIato-tomentosi,4-8 mm. longi. Racemi 

 in ramis 2-3-foliatis terminales, erecti 4-6 cm. longi, pedunculo 1-1.5 

 cm. longo fasciculato-piloso insidentes; rhachis laxe stellato-tomentosa; 

 pedicelli 1-2 mm. longi, sparse stellato-pilosi v. glabri, bracteis lan- 

 ceolatis pedicellum vix aequantibus sparsi stellato-pubescentes cito 

 caducis suffulti et bracteolis 2 similibus sed minoribus cito caducis 

 instituti; calycis tubus turbinatus circiter 1 mm. longus, glaber, lobi 

 oblongo-ovati, obtusi, apice plerumque sparse stellato-pilosi, vix 1.5 

 mm. longi, decidui; petala subulata sepalis paullo breviora; stamina 

 sepalis subaequilonga, antheris ovoideis fere sessilibus; styli revoluti, 

 stamina superantes. Capsula ovoidea, basibus stylorum erectis coro- 

 nata, 1.5 cm. longa, obscure brunnea, lenticellata, paullo infra medium 

 vestigiis calycis circumdata; semina oblongo-ovoidea, circiter 1 cm. 

 longa, apicem versus attenuata, nitida, atrobrunnea, basi hilo trans- 

 verso albido exsculpto notata. 



Western Hupeh: Fang Hsien, margin of oak woods, rare, alt. 600- 

 1500 m., May 25 and November 1907 (No. 565). 



SINOWILSONIA Hemsl. 



Sinowilsonia Henryi Hemsley in Hooker's Icon. XXIX. t. 2817 

 (1906). — Fedde, Rep. Nov. Sp. V. 265 (1908). — Bean in Kew Bull. 

 Misc. Inform. XXII. 355 (1909). — Pampanini in Nuov. Giorn. Bot. 

 Ital. n. ser. XVIII. 120 (1911). — Schneider, III. Handb. Laubholzk. 

 II. 957, fig. 589 (1912). 



Corylopsis macrostachya Pampanini in Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. n. ser. XVII. 

 286, fig. 7 (1910). 



Western Hupeh: Fang Hsien, side of streams, alt. 1000-1300 m. 

 May 25, 1907 (No. 584; bush 6-8 m. tall, wood white and heavy, 



