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Abundant under Rhododendron bushes on the alpine moorlands near Tachien- 

 lu. A picture of this species will be found under No. 205 of the collection of 

 Wilson's photographs and also in his Vegetation of Western China, No. 145. 



Pieris ovalifolia D. Don in Edinh. Phil Jour. XVII. 159 (1834). — 

 De Candolle, Prodr. VII. 599 (1839). — Clarke in Hooker f., Fl. 

 Brit. Ind. III. 460 (1882). — Leveille in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, LIII. 

 204 (1906). 



Andromeda ovalifolia Wallich in As. Research. XIII. 391, fig. (1820); Cat. No. 



763 (1828). — D. Don, Prodr. Fl. Nepal. 148 (1825). — Wight, Icon. IV. 



t. 1199 (1850). 

 Lyonia ovalifolia Drude in Engler & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. IV. pt. I. 44 



(1889). 



Yunnan: Mengtze, mountains northwards, alt. 1600 m., A. Henry 

 (Nos. 9091, 9091^ 9091", 9091', in part); Szemao, mountains, alt. 

 1600 m., A. Henry (No. 9091', in part). 



Pieris ovalifolia, var. lanceolata Clarke in Hooker f., Fl. Brit. Ind. 

 III. 461 (1882). — Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 17 (1889). — 

 L^veill^ in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, LIII. 204 (1906). 



Andromeda lanceolata Wallich in As. Research. XIII. 390, fig. (1820). — Wight 



Icon. IV. t. 1198 (1850). 

 Andromeda squamulosa D. Don, Prodr. Fl. Nepal. 149 (1825). 

 Pieris lanceolata D. Don in Edinb. Phil. Jour. XVII. 159 (1834). — De Can- 



dolle, Prodr. VII. 599 (1839). — Hance in Jour. Bot. XVI. 12 (1878). 



Western Szech'uan: south-east of Tachien-lu, woods, alt. 2300- 

 3000 m., June and October 1908 (No. 1240; bush 1-2 m. tall, flowers 

 white); Tung Valley, alt. 1000-1900 m.. May and July 1904 (Veitch 

 Exped. Nos. 3920, 3921^). Yunnan : vicinity of Mengtze, alt. 1600- 

 1800 m., A. Henry (Nos. 9623% 10510, 10510% 10510", 11268). 



This is a common plant in dry woodlands throughout western China. The 

 large, greenish-colored sepals and the leaves narrowed at the base distinguish this 

 variety from the type. The same characters and the much more coriaceous leaves 

 distinguish it from the more widely distributed var. elliptica. 

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Pieris ovalifolia, var. elliptica Rehder & Wilson, n. var. 



Andromeda elliptica Siebold & Zuccarini in Ahh. Akad. Miinch. IV. pt. III. 126 

 {Fl. Jap. Fam. Nat. II. 2) (1846). — Schneider, III. Handb. Laubholzk. II. 

 532, fig. 346 p-r, 347 e-g (1911). 



Andromeda ovalifolia Maximowicz in Bull. Acad. Sci. Petersbourg XVIII. 50 

 (non WaUich) (1872); in Mel. Biol. VIII. 620 (1872). 



