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bark grey, flowers in pendulous racemes); without locality, A. Henry 

 (No. 6559). 



Common in the sheltered valleys and ravines of north-western Hupeh, very 

 rare elsewhere in the province and unreported from western Szech'uan. It is 

 very partial to the sides of mountain-streams where it forms a large bush or bushy 

 tree, and in general appearance resembles a witch-hazel. The spicate inflorescences 

 are pendulous and very freely produced. The ripe seeds are ovoid or nearly so, 

 about 8 mm. long, 4 mm. wide, obtuse, polished jet-black with pale grey hilum. 



LOROPETALUM R. Br. 



Loropetalum chinense Oliver in Trans. Linn. Soc. XXIII. 459, 

 fig. 4 (1862). — Moore in Jour. Bot. XVI. 138 (1878). — Hance in 

 Jour. Bot. XVI. 226 (1878). — Maximowicz in Bull Soc. Nat. Mosc. 

 LIV. pt. 1, 22 (1879). — Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXIII. 290 

 (1887). — Diels in Bot. Jahrh. XXIX. 381 (1900).— Hemsley in Bot. 

 Mag. CXXX. t. 7979 (1904). — Dunn & Tutcher in Kew Bull. Misc. 

 Inform. Add. ser. X. 101 (Fl. Kwangtung & Hongkong) (1912). 



Hamamelis chinensis R. Brown in Abel, Narr. Jour. China, 375, fig. (1818). 



Kiangsi: Kiukiang, rocky places, foothills, alt. 300-1000 m., 

 August 1907 (No. 1626; bush 1-2 m.). Western Hupeh: vicinity 

 of Ichang, rocky places, alt. 30-600 m., April and December 1907 

 (No. 3520; bush 1-4 m. tall, flowers white); Changyang Hsien, rocky 

 places, alt. 300-1000 m., April 1907 (No. 3520'*; bush 1-4 m. tall); 

 Nanto, hillsides, March 1900 (Veitch Exped. No. 110), vicinity of 

 Ichang, A. Henry (Nos. 254, 1634); " Kao-kien-scian," alt. 800 m.. 

 May 1907, C. Silvestri (No. 3331); " Monti di Nan-tcian," November 

 1907, C Silvestri (No. 3332). Szech'uan: Nanch'uan, A. vonRosthorn 

 (No. 164). Yunnan: Szemao, alt. 1300-1500 m., A. Henry (Nos. 

 12490, 12490^). Chekiang : vicinity of Ningpo, 1908, D. Macgregor. 

 Fokien: vicinity of Amoy, April, de la Touche; Dunn's Exped. 1905 

 (ex Herb. Bot. Gard. Hongkong No. 2683); Fuchau, Hills near 

 Pagoda Island, W. R. Carles (No. 88). 



This handsome, spring-flowering shrub is abundant all over the warmer parts 

 of China, especially in rocky places: round Ichang, where it is colloquially known 

 as Chi-mu, it grows in association with Rosa laevigata Michaux and Rosa microcarpa 

 Lindley, and forms a dense scrub on hills of conglomerate formation. It is also 

 common on limestone cliffs and as an undergrowth in thin woods of Pine or Oak. 

 Near Kiating and Omei-shan in western Szech'uan it abounds on the red-sandstone 

 hills. 



