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ambitu depresso-globosa, lobata, dorso loborum rotundato leviter 

 costato, apice plus minusve intrusa, 7-9 mm. diam,, circiter 6 mm. 

 alta, luteo-viridis; semina solitaria in quoque loculo, testa purpurea, 

 arillo aurantiaco dimidium tantum semen involvente. 



Western Szech'uan: Mupin, cliffs, alt. 1300-1600 m., October 

 1910 (No. 4378). 



This species is related to E. Semenovii Regel & Herder, which differs in its 

 longer and more acute leaves and the longer peduncles; it is also related to E. 

 Przewalskii Maximowicz which may be distinguished by the acuminate, more 

 closely serrate leaves and by the narrowly winged fruit. 



Evonymus Semenovii Regel & Herder in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 

 XXXIX. pt. I. 557 (1866). 



Western Szech'uan: north-east of Tachien-lu, thickets, alt. 

 3000-3300 m., July 9, 1908 (No. 3126; bush 1-2 m., flowers dark red).^ 



Evonymus nanoides Loesener & Rehder, n. sp. 



Frutex 0.60-1.00 m. altus; ramuli hornotini subquadrialati, tenues, 

 puberuli, virides; annotini acute quadrangulares, virides; gemmae 

 terminales parvae acutae, brunneae. Folia anguste lanceolata v. 

 lineari-lanceolata, utrinque attenuata, apice acutiuscula, minute ad- 

 presse serrulata dentibus fere ad mucronem brunneum reductis, 

 0.8-2 cm. longa et 1.5^ mm. lata, utrinque ad costam mediam et 

 sparse ad nervos secundarios minute hirtula, luteo-viridia, concolora, 

 nervis utrinsecus 3-5 obsoletis; petioli minute hirtuli, 1-3 mm. longi. 

 Flores desunt. Fructus solitarii v. bini axillares brevissime pedicellati ; 

 capsula 4-mera, ambitu depresso-globosa, fere ad medium lobata lobis 

 obtusis adscendentibus, 10-12 mm. diam. et 6 mm. alta, apice trun- 

 cata et leviter intrusa, plerumque valvis 2 tantum fertilibus; semina 

 in quoque loculo solitaria, ovoidea, 5-6 mm. longa, purpurea, arillo 

 aurantiaco apice aperto inclusa. 



Western Szech'uan: Min valley, Wei-chou, cliffs, alt. 1600-2300 

 m., August 1910 (No. 4567). 



* A closely related species from Kansu is the following: 



Evon3mius Przewalskii Maximowicz in Bull. Acad. Sci. St. Petersbourg, XXVII. 

 451 (1881); in Mel. Biol. XI. 194 (1881); in Act. Hort. Petrop.Xl.97 (1890).— 

 Loesener in Bat. Jahrb. XXX. 464 (1902). 



Kansu: Minchou district, alt. 2800 m., 1910, W. Purdom. 



Purdom's specimen, which is in flower, agrees very well with the description of 

 Maximowicz's species of which I have seen no specimens and seems to differ from it 

 only in the leaves being mostly broadly cuneate at the base, though they are broadest 

 below the middle. A. R. 



