ANACARDIACEAE. — RHUS 181 



alt. 1000 m., May 1907 (No. i6o^; thin tree 6-10 m. tall); without 

 locaHty, A. Henry (No. 6349). Chekiang: vicinity of Ningpo, 

 1908, D. Macgregor; " Tang-si," June 1907, F. N. Meyer (No. 443). 

 Fokien: without precise locality, April to June 1905, Dunn's 

 Exped. (Herb. Bot. Gard. Hongkong, Nos. 2525, 2528). Korea: 

 Fusan, temple grounds, September 6, 1903, C. S. Sargent; Quel- 

 paert, October 1906, U. Faurie (No. 485); same locality. May 

 1908, June 1909, 1910, Taquet (Nos. 667, 3120, 4173); Korean archi- 

 pelago, 1863, R. Oldham (No. 187) ; Tsu-sima Island, 1859, C. Wilford. 



This Sumach is common on the Lushan mountains in Kiangsi, but is rare in 

 western Hupeh where the western limit of the range of the species is found. 

 Usually it is a large bush but it often forms a slender tree; the number of leaflets 

 which have very prominent veins varies from 3 to 13. This species does not yield 

 varnish and has no economic value as far as we know. 



Rhus vemiciflua Stokes, Bot. Mat. Med. II. 164 (1812) .^ 



Rhus Vernix Linnaeus, Spec. 265 (1753), quoad specimina japonica. — 

 Thunberg, Fl. Jap. 121 (1784). 



Rhus vernicifera De Candolle, Prodr. II. 68 (1825), excludendis specimini- 

 bus nepalensibus. — Miquel in Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. II. 84 (1866); Prol. 

 Fl. Jap. 16 (1866). — Hance in Jour. Bot. XX. 259 (1882). — Engler in 

 De Candolle, MoTiogf. Phaner. IV. 398 (1883). — Hemsley in Jour. Linn. 

 Soc. XXIII. 148 (1886). — Maximowicz in Act. Hort. Petrop. XI. 110 

 (1889). — Sargent in Garden & Forest, VI. 162 (1893); For. Fl. Jap. 33 

 (1894). — Shirasawa, Icon. Ess. For. Jap. I. 94, t. 57, fig. 17-30 (1900). — 

 Diels in Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. 433 (1900). — De Wildeman, Icon. Hort. 

 Thenens. VI. 1, t. 201 (1906). 



Rhus Kaempferi Sweet, Hort. Brit. 97 (1827). 



Rhus succedanea, var. himalaica Hooker f., Fl. Brit. Ind. II. 12 (1876). 



Rhus vernicifera, var. Silvestrii Pampanini in Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. n. ser. 

 XVII. 416 (1910); XVIII. 173 (1911). 



Western Hupeh: north and south of Ichang, mountain slopes 

 and valleys, wild and cultivated, alt. 1000-2500 m., June and Sep- 

 tember 1907 (No. 123, in part; tree 8-20 m. tall, girth 0.6-2 m.) ; Hsing- 

 shan Hsien, woodlands, alt. 1000-2500 m., abundant, June 4 and 

 September 1907 (No. 123, in part; tree 6-15 m. tall, girth 1-2 m., 

 flowers greenish-white); Changyang Hsien, woodlands, alt. 1000- 

 2500 m., abundant, June 1907 (No. 123, in part; tree 10-16 m., girth 

 1-2 m.); Changlo Hsien, woods, alt. 1300-2500 m., June 1907 (No. 

 123, in part; tree 10-20 m. tall, girth 1-2 m.); Patung Hsien, wood- 



1 First mentioned by Kaempfer {Amoen. Exot. 791, t. 792 [1712]) as "Sitz" 

 or " UrilB." 



