ANACARDIACEAE. — COTINUS 175 



Western Szech'uan: Chien-chi Hsien, arid valleys, alt. 1000 m., July 1903 

 (Veitch Exped. No. 3367). Yunnan: Mengtze, plains, alt. 1500 m., A. Henry 

 (Nos. 9600, 9600''); Lunan, A. Henry (No. 9000**); Szemao, mountains west, alt. 

 1600 m., A. Henry (No. 11913). 



This is a very rare tree in Szech'uan where it is confined to the arid river-valleys 

 in the southwestern part of the province. In Yunnan it is common and is one of 

 the handsomest trees found there. It grows from 15-20 m. tall, with a straight 

 trunk and medium sized branches which form a shapely oval or flattened head. 

 The leaves are coriaceous, shining and dark green; and the fruit is red and about the 

 size of an ordinary pea. In adult trees the shoots are commonly quite glabrous, 

 and specimens before us agree exactly with Collett & Hemsley's description of 

 P. coccinea and they themselves suspected it might prove identical with P. wein- 

 manniJoUa. 



COTINUS Adans. 



Cotinus coggygria Scopoli, Fl. Cam. ed. 2, I. 220 (1772).— 

 Engler in De Candolle, Monog. Phaner. IV. 350 (1883). — Diels in 

 Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. 432 (1900). — Schneider, III. Handb. Laubholzk. 



II. 146, fig. 97 a-g (1907). 



Rh^is Cotinus Linnaeus, Spec. 267 (1753). — De Candolle, Prodr. II. 67 

 (1825). — Hooker f., Fl. Brit. Ind. II. 9 (1876). — Franchet in Nouv. 

 Arch. Mus. Paris, s^r. 2, V. 230 {PI. David. I. 78) (1883). — Hemsley 

 in Jour. Ldnn. Soc. XXII. 146 (1886). — Pavolini in Nu^v. Giorn. Bot. 

 Ital. n. ser. XV. 409 (1908). 



Rhus simplicifolia Salisbury, Prodr. 170 (1796). 



Rhus obovatifolia Stokes, Bot. Mat. Med. II. 159 (1812). 



Rhus laevis WalUch apud G. Don, Gen. Syst. II. 69 (1832). 



Cotinus Coccygea K. Koch, Dendr. I. 582 (1869). 



Cotinus coggygria, a. laevis Engler in De Candolle, Monog. Phaner. IV. 350 

 (1883). — Pampanini in Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. n. ser. XVII. 416 (1910). 



We have seen no Chinese specimens referable to the typical glabrous C. cog- 

 gygria Scopoli, and Pampanini's specimen probably belongs to the following form 

 which is fairly common all over the temperate parts of China. 



Cotinus coggygria, var. pubescens Engler in Bot. Jahrb. I. 403 

 (1881); in De Candolle, Monog. Phaner. IV. 351 (1883). — Schneider, 



III. Handb. Laubholzk. II. 146 (1907). 



Rhus Cotinus Maximowicz in Act. Hort. Petrop. XI. 110 (non Linnaeus) 

 (1890). 



Western Hupeh: Ichang and the neighborhood, alt. 30-1300 m., 

 common, April 1907 (No. 87; bush 1-2 m.); same locality, April 1900 

 (Veitch Exped. No. 221); without locality, A. Henry (No. 1627). 

 Szech'uan: without locality, E. Faber (No. 114). Shensi: north- 

 west of Hanchung Fu 1010, W. Purdom (No. 364); " Huo-kia-zaez," 



