NYSSACEAE. 



Determined by E. H. Wilson. 



NYSSA L. 



Nyssa sinensis Oliver in Hooker's Icon. XX. t. 1964 (1891). 



Kiangsi : Ruling, thickets, side of water-courses, alt. 1300 m., com- 

 mon, July 31, 1907 (No. 1557; wide spreading bush 2.5-6 m. tall, 

 fruit blue); same locality, July 29, 1907 (No. i557*; small tree, 5-6 m. 

 tall). 



This is a very common bush or small tree along watercourses on the Lushan 

 mountain in Kiangsi; it is rare in Hupeh and has not been recorded from western 

 Szech'uan. The undescribed fruit is indigo-blue, oval, from 12 to 15 mm. long, 

 about 7 mm. wide, obtuse at the ends, and produced 2 or 3 together on short 

 pedicels at the end of a pedimcle from 2 to 5 cm. or more long. The young leaves 

 and shoots are clothed with pale gray silky hairs which soon fall away. In autumn 

 the leaves turn to a brilliant reddish color. 



CAMPTOTHECA Decne. 



Camptotheca acuminata Decaisne in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, XX. 

 157 (1873). — Baillon, Hist. PI. VI. 282 (1877). — Franchet in Nouv. 

 Arch. Mus. Paris, ser. 2, VIII. 241, t. 9 (PL David. II. 59) (1886). — 

 Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXIII. 346 (1888). — Diels in Bot. 

 7ahrh. XXIX. 504 (1900). — Dode in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, LV.650, 

 fig. b (1908). 



Camptotheca yunnanensis Dode in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, LV. 651, fig. c 

 (1908). 



Kiangsi: near Kiuking, around base of foot hills, alt. 160 m., 

 August 2, 1907 (No. 1544; tree 13-20 m. tall, girth 0.6-1.3 m., flower 

 white, bark grey). Western Hupeh : without locality, August 1900 

 (Veitch Exped. No. 1681); without locality, A. Henry (No. 760^). 

 Western Szech'uan: Mt. Omei, October 1910 (No. 4405, seeds 

 only); same locality, June 1904 (Veitch Exped. No. 4949); without 

 precise locality, alt. 300-600 m., October 1903 (Veitch Exped. No. 

 3700). Yunnan: Szemao, alt. 1600-2000 m., A. Henry (Nos. 

 13091, 13433). 



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