TAXACEAE. — CEPHAL0TAXU3 5 



Jahrh. XXIX. 213 (1900). —Masters in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 

 545 (1902); XXXVII. 413 (1906); in Jour. Bot. XLI. 269 (1903).— 

 Pilger in Engler, Pflanzenr. IV.-5, 103 (Taxaceae) (1903). — Diels in 

 Wiss. Ergeb. Exped. Filchner China Tibet, X. 247 (1908). — Dunn & 

 Tutcher in Kew Bull. Misc. Inform. Add. ser. X. 256 (Ft. Kwang- 

 tung & Hongkong) (1912). — Patschke in Bot. Jahrh. XLVIII. 629 

 (1913). 



Cephalotaxus filiformis Knight & Perry ex Gordon, Pinetum, 46 (quasi synon.) 



(1858). 

 Cephalotaxus drupacea K. Koch, Dendr. II. pt. II. 104 (non Siebold & Zuc- 



carini) (1873), quoad synon. C. Fortunei. 

 Cephalotaxus Griffilhii Beissner in Bull. Soc. Bot. Ital. 1901, 358 (non Hooker 



f.). — Masters in Jour. Bot. XLI. 269 (1903); in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXXVII. 



414 (1906). 

 Cephalotaxus Mannii Masters in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 545 (non Hooker f .) 



(1902). 



Kiangsi: Kuling, thickets, alt. 1300 m., August 1, 1907 (No. 

 1741% ? ). Western Hupeh : north and south of Ichang, woodlands, 

 alt. 600-1300 m., May and September 1907 (No. 1386, c? and 9 ,in part; 

 bush or tree 5-8 m. tall) ; Fang Hsien, woods, alt. 1300 m., August 1907 

 (No. 1386, ^ and 9 , in part; tree 6 m. tall) ; Hsing-shan Hsien, ravine, 

 alt. 300 m., rare, May 1907 (No. 2iio,9 ; bush 2 m. tall); without 

 locality, April 1900 (Veitch Exped. No. 100, 9 and J ) ; without locality 

 A. Henry (No. 7186); "Monte Tien-pong-scian," alt. 1990 m., Sep- 

 tember 1907, C. ^SiZyesfn (No. 94, 9). Eastern Szech'uan: Wushan 

 Hsien, .A. fl^ewry (No. 7018, 9). Western Szech'uan: Wa-shan, 

 roadside, alt. 1300 m., September 1908 (No. 1386,9, in part; tree 12 

 m. tall, girth 1.5 m., fruit purple); west and near Wen-ch'uan Hsien, 

 alt. 1300-1600 m., October 1901 (No. 4054,9 ; small tree 5-8 m. tall); 

 Tachien-lu, Pnnce Henri d' Orleans. Yunnan: mountains north of 

 Mengtze, alt. 2300 m., A. Hennj (No. 9100,^). Chekiang: near 

 Ningpo, June 1907, F. N. Meyer (No. 432, 9). Shensi : Tai-pei-shan, 

 1910, W. Purdom. 



This handsome species is rather common as a small tree, 5-10 m. tall, in the 

 woods and thickets of western Hupeh and in Szech'uan, more especially in precip- 

 itous limestone regions. The trunk always divides a few feet above the ground 

 into 2-5 ascending stems. The lateral branches are very numerous, slender, 

 spreading and often somewhat pendulous at the extremities. The leaves in both 

 sexes are equally long, dark green above, glaucous below; the fruit varies somewhat 

 in size and shape and when ripe is purple on the surface. 



This tree is the Lo-han-shu of the Chinese and is frequently associated with 

 wayside shrines, tombs and temples. The specimens identified as C. Griffithii by 

 Masters (in Jour. Bot. XLI. 269 [1903]) probably belong here. 



