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Folia supra nitentia, chartacea, mox glabra, sensim acuminata, nervia 

 utriuque 5-7. 

 Petioli tota facie ut ramuli inflorescentiaque villosi v. tomentelli; 



antherae apice obtusissimae 8. S. filiformis. 



Petioli tantum supra ut ramuli inflorescentiaeque pilosi. Antherae 



apice brevissime apiculatae 9. S. apiculata. 



Nervi primarii laterales a costa ad marginem percurrentes tantum 2-5, 

 subtus satis pauUo prominentes, supra vix v. baud incisi; folia apice 

 rotunda, obtusa v. acuta, sed non acuminata. 

 Nervi primarii utrinque tantum 2-3, perobliqui . , 10. S. paudcostata. 



Nervi primarii fere semper 4-5, normales 11. *S. theezans. 



Floras plus minusve distincte pedicellati 12. S. Cavaleriei . 



CONSPECTUS SPECIERUM ASIATICARUM. 



1. Sageretia perpusilla Schneider. See p. 226. 



2. Sageretia pycnophylla Schneider. See p. 226. 



3. Sageretia Brandrethiana Aitchison in Jour. Linn. Soc. VIII. 62 (1865). — 

 Boissier, Fl. Orient. II. 22 (1872). — Lawson in Hooker f., Fl. Brit. Ind. I. 642 (1875). 



Northwestern India: Afghanistan, according to Lawson westward to 

 Persia and Arabia. 



Of the type specimens I have only seen Griffith's No. 2020 from Afghanistan 

 which fully agrees with Aitchison's description, the leaves having a dense woolly 

 whitish covering on their under surface. 



Sageretia Brandrethiana, var. Bornmuelleri Schneider, var. nov. 

 A typo recedit foliis subtus valde glabrescentibus subintegerrimis. 

 Southeastern Persia: Prov. of Kerman, Rahbur, "in reg. calida, raro," 

 alt. 2700 m., July 29, 1892, F. Bornmuller (No. 3430). 



4. Sageretia rugosa Hance. See p. 227. 



5. Sageretia omeiensis Schneider, n. sp. 



Frutex subscandens; ramuli ut petioli inflorescentiaque cano-tomentulosi, 

 rotundi, striati. Folia crasse membranacea, ovato-oblonga, basi rotunda, leviter 

 inaequalia, apice acuminata, 7.5-10 cm. longa, 3.5-4.5 cm. lata, supra viridia, 

 glabra v. subglabra, subtus albescentia v. leviter brunnescentia, tomentosa, nervia 

 utrinque 7-9, supra incisis, subtus valde prominentibus glabrescentibus, margine 

 calloso-serrulata, petioli 8-15 mm. longi, sulcati. Inflorescentia terminaUs, pani- 

 culata, infra fohacea, ad 16 cm. longa; flores sessiles, pro genere normales, extus 

 basi V. tota facie pubescentes ; petala sepalis breviora, glabra. Fructus desideratur. 



Szech'uan: Mt. Omei, September 1904 (Veitch Exped. No. 4816). 



This species is very closely related to S. rugosa Hance, but it may be at once 

 distinguished from that species by its longer leaves with longer petioles. The 

 petals are quite glabrous. 



6. Sageretia hamosa Brongniart in Ann. Sci. Nat. X. 360 (Mem. Fam. Rhamn. 

 53) (1826). — Lawson in Hooker f., Fl. Brit. Ind. I. 641 (1875). 



Zizyphus hamosa WalUch in Roxburgh, Fl. Ind. II. 369 (1824). 

 ? Rhamnus affinis Blume, Bijdr. 1140 (1826). 



Rhamnus costaia Miquel, Fl. Ind. Bot. I. pt. 1, 645 (1855). — Trimen, Handb. 

 Fl Ceylon, 1. 284 (1893). 



Nepal, Peninsular India, Ceylon, Java, ? Formosa. 



