RHAMNACEAE. 



Determined by Camillo Schneider.^ 



PALIURUS Mill. 



Paliurus orientalis Hemsley in Kew Bull. Misc. Inform. 1894, 387 

 (pro parte maxima). — Pritzel in Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. 457 (1900). — 

 Schneider, III. Handb. Laubholzk. II. 260, fig. 182 c (1909). — Pam- 

 panini in Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. n. ser. XVII. 425 (1910). 



? Paliurus lucidus Camera in Rev. Hort. 1866, 380 (nomen nudum). 

 ? Paliurus australis, var. orientalis Franchet, PI. Delavay. 132 (1889). 



Western Hupeh: north and south of Ichang, open comitry, alt. 

 600-1100 m., common, June and September 1907 (No. 105; slender 

 tree 3-6 m. tall); Fang Hsien, June 1901 (Veitch Exped. without 

 number, in Herb. Hofmuseum, Vienna); without locality, May 1901 

 (Veitch Exped. No. 2103); without locality, A. Henry (No. 6379). 

 Eastern Szech'uan: Taning Hsien, roadsides, alt. 160-600 m., 

 common June 1910 (No. 4630; slender tree 6-12 m. tall, girth 0.3- 

 0.6 m., immature fruit white); Wushan Hsien, mountains, June 1900 

 (Veitch Exped. No. 634); same locality, A. Henry (No. 7205); Cheng- 

 kou Ting, P. Farges. Shensi : " Tciuz Sien," 1893, G. Giraldi.^ 



The type of Franchet's var. orientalis is Delavay's No. 239 from Yunnan in 

 woods near Tali, which I have not yet seen. Hemsley says: Folia cum petiolo 

 usque ad 5 poll, longa et 3 poll, lata, sed in speciminibus Delavayanis minora. He 

 cites Henry's No. 7205 from Szech'uan, Wushan Hsien, and Ford's No. 325 from 

 Kwangtung. Unfortunately I could not compare Wilson's specimens with Fran- 

 chet's type, but they agree exactly with Hemsley's description. I think, there- 

 fore, that Franchet's var. orientalis may belong to P. sinicus Schneider, as all the 

 specimens I have seen from Yunnan have short petioles. 



Wilson's No. 634 is a poor specimen with very young leaves, which like the 



^ Owing to Mr. Schneider's departure for south-western China he has been un- 

 able to settle some questions in regard to a few doubtful specimens, and has left 

 their determination to us. We have added a few notes to his manuscript. 



Alfred Rehder and E. H. Wilson. 



2 The specimen collected in southern Shensi by David, and by Franchet referred 

 {Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, s6r. 2, V. 223 {PI. David. I. 71) [1883]) to P. australis 

 doubtless belongs here. A. R. and E. H. W. 



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