CORIARIACEAE. — CORIARIA 171 



thickets, alt. 2000-2500 m., June and August 1908 (No. 2304, in part; 

 sub-shrub 0.6-1 m. tall, fruit black); same locality, alt. 2800 m., July 

 1903 (Veitch Exped. No. 3306). 



This plant has a woody root-stock and herbaceous annual shoots; the fruit is 

 black. It is common in thickets and margins of woods between 2000 and 2600 m. 

 alt. in western Szech'uan. 



Hemsley (1. c.) refers certain Indian specimens to this species, but apparently 

 there are two forms, one with black fruit and one found in Sikkim with yellow 

 fruit. A specimen before us, collected by Hooker f. in Sikkim at alt. 5000-7000 

 ft. apparently has black fruit ; another Sikkim specimen (Gammie No. 353) collected 

 at Lachung, at alt. 9000 ft. has yellow fruit. This Lachung specimen agrees with 

 the plant figured in the Mitt. Deutsch. Dendr. Ges. VI. 62 (1897) by St. Paul as 

 Coriaria nepalensis. As Hemsley in the Gard. Chron. (1. c.) points out, this plant 

 has nothing to do with C. nepalensis Wallich. In the absence of information on 

 the color of the fruit in his Chinese type Hemsley expresses the opinion that the 

 plant figured is the same as his C. terminalis. We now know that the Chinese 

 plant has black fruit, and the yellow-fruited Indian plant would appear to consti- 

 tute at least a well marked variety of C. terminalis Hemsley. 



Coriaria terminalis, var. xanthocarpa Rehder & Wilson, n. var. 



Coriaria terminalis St. Paul in Mitt. Deutsch. Dendr. Ges. VI. 62, t. (non Hems- 

 ley) (1897). — Bean in Gard. Chron. ser. 3, XXXIV. 282, fig. 119 (1903). — 

 Mottet in Rev. Hort. 1907, p. 160, t. — Sprague in Bot. Mag. CXXXIX. t. 

 8525 (1913). 



