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apice satis subito acuminata acumine 1-1.5 cm. longo, satis indis- 

 tincte breviter dentata, basim versus integra, toto circuitu angustis- 

 sime cartilagineo-marginata, supra viridia, sublucida, glabra, subtus 

 vix pallidiora, etiam sublucida, juvenilia ad nervos sparse pilosa, 

 matura tantum in axillis nervorum utrinsecus 4-7 campylotroporum 

 leviter barbulata, 6-13 cm. longa et 4-5 cm. lata v. in inflorescentiis 

 angustiora, lanceolata; petioli glabri, supra anguste sulcati, 10-18 

 mm. longi. Inflorescentia axillaris, fere semper distincte late cymoso- 

 paniculata axi centrali ad 11 cm. longa, ramis infimis ad 4 cm. longis, 

 puberula; flores virides(?), glabri v. sparse puberuli, pentameri, 

 dioeci, feminei nondum visi, 2-8 fasciculati; pedicelli fructiferi 2-4 

 mm. longi, glabri v. tenuissime pilosi; sepala late-lanceolata, sensim 

 acuminata, receptaculo subduplo longiora; petala sepalis 1.5 breviora, 

 obovato-oblonga, apice obtusa, basi breve unguiculata, in sicco 

 nigrescentia, staminibus sublongiora; antherae albo-flavidae, apice 

 levissime apiculatae; ovaria perparva, stylis 3 contiguis coronata. 

 Fructus saturate ruber, obovato-globosus, circiter 6-7 mm. crassus; 

 semina immatura 2-3, obovato-oblonga, dorso distincte sulcata. 



Western Hupeh: Patung Hsien, cliffs, alt. 300-600 m., July and 

 October (No. 422, type) ; Changyang Hsien, side of streams, alt. 300- 

 600 m., June 1907 (No. 3270); without locality, August 1900 (Veitch 

 Exped. No. 1614). Yunnan: Szemao, mountains to west and east, 

 forests, alt. 1800-2000 m., A. Henry (Nos. 12040, 12040"). 



Dr. Henry's specimens differ only in their somewhat more distinctly crenately 

 serrate leaves and smaller fruits. This is a very remarkable new species with its 

 large paniculate inflorescence and its extremely verrucose branches. By these 

 characters it is easily distinguished from the related B. nipalensis Wallich and R. 

 tonkinensis Pitard. 



Rhamnus Hemsleyanus Schneider in Notizhl. Bot. Gart. Berlin, 

 1908, 78; III. Handb. Lauhholzk. II. 270, figs. 197 o-p, 199 m-n (1909). 



Ad descriptionem addenda: gemmae perparvae, obtusissimae. 

 Fructus maturus ut videtur niger, obovato-rotundus, ad 5 mm. longus, 

 4 mm. crassus; semina 3, purpurascentia, obovata, dorso impressa, 

 tantum ima basi sulco brevi vix aperto instructa, ventre carinata. 



Western Szech'uan: Mupin, woodlands, alt. 2000-3000 m., 

 June 1908 (No. 3324; bush 2-6 m., flowers greenish); Mt. Omei, June 

 1904 (Veitch Exped. No. 4780) ; without precise locahty, alt. 1800 m., 

 May 1904 (Veitch Exped. No. 3342). Eastern Szech'uan: Wu- 

 shan Hsien, A. Henry (No. 5677, type). Western Hupeh: with- 

 out locahty, A. Henry (No. 7462). 



