MELIACEAE. — CIPADESSA 159 



Pictures of this tree will be found under Nos. 394, 395, 632 and 0220 of the 

 collection of Wilson's photographs and also in his Vegetation of Westcr7i China, 

 Nos. 309 and 310. 



Here may be added a note on a new variety of Cipadessa. 



CIPADESSA Blume. 

 Cipadessa baccifera Miquel in Ann. Mus. Ludg.-Bai. IV. 6 (1868). 



Ekebergia indica Roxburgh, Hort. Cat. Beng. 33 (nomen nudum) (1814); Fl' 



Ind. II. 392 (1832). — WaUich Cat. No. 1256 (nomen nudum) (1828). 

 Melia baccifera Roth, Nov. PI. Ind. Or. 215 (1821). — De Candolle, Prodr. I. 



622 (1824). 

 Cipadessa fruticosa Blume, Bijdr. 162 (1825). — Hiern in Hooker f., Fl. Brit. 



Ind. I. 545 (1875). — Pellegrin in Le Comte, Fl. Gen. Ind.-Chine, I. 782, 



fig. 85 (1911). 

 Ekebergia ? integerrima WaUich, Cat. No. 1257 (nomen nudum) (1828). 

 Mallea Rothii A. L. de Jussieu in Mem. Mus. Nat. Hist. Paris, XIX. 222, t. 13, 



fig. 6 (1830). 

 Mallea integerrima Wallich apud Voigt, Hort. Svh. Calcutt. 134 (1845). 

 Mallea subscandens Teysmann & Binnendijk in Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. XXV. 



422 (1863). 

 Cipadessa ? subscandens Miquel in Ann. Mus. Ludg.-Bat. IV. 7 (1868). 



The Chinese plant differs considerably from that of India and Malaya and is 

 best considered a variety. 



Cipadessa baccifera, var. sinensis Rehder & Wilson, n. var. 



A typo recedit ramulis, petiolis fohis utrinque dense moUiter pubescentibus, 

 foliolis plerumque majoribus 5-10 cm. longis. 



Western Szech'uan: near Sui Fu, banks of Yangtsze River, June 1903 

 (Veitch Exped. No. 3366, type); same locality, October 1903 (Veitch Exped. No. 

 3366'='); Mt. Omei, July 1904 (Veitch Exped. No. 4774); without locality, E. 

 Faber (No. 669). Yunnan: Mengtze, A. Henry (No. 9461, in part); south of 

 Red River from Manmei, A. Henry (No. 9461, in part); Manpan, Red River, A. 

 Henry (No. 9461''); Szemao, mountains west, alt. 1500 m., A. Henry (No. 9461*=). 



The dense velvety pubescence everywhere on the leaves, leaf-rhachis, inflores- 

 cence and young shoots and the usually larger leaves readily distinguish this 

 variety from the type. In the warmer part of western Szech'uan this plant is 

 not uncommon in thickets. The specimen from Mt. Omei is labelled " Tree 

 50 ft." ; this is a mistake it should read " bush 5 ft." Henry describes his specimen 

 as a bush or small tree from 6 to 20 feet tall. 



