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Western Szech'uan: Chiu-ting-shan, thickets, alt. 1300-1600 m., 

 May 22, 1908 (No. 2311; scandent shrub 4-6 m., flowers greenish- 

 white) ; west and near Wen-ch'uan Hsien, thickets, alt. 1600-2300 m., 

 October 1908, 1910 (Nos. 1147, seeds only, 1175, 4195; scandent shrub 

 3-6 m., fruit orange-yellow); southeast of Tachien-lu, thickets, alt. 

 2000 m., October 1910 (No. 4187; scandent shrub 4-5 m. tall); Mt. 

 Omei, May 1904 (Veitch Exped. No. 4781). Western Hupeh: 

 without locality, A. Henry (No. 3115). 



Fairly common in western Szech'uan and easily recognized by its rather small, 

 thick and shining leaves which are deciduous, not persistent as stated by Loesener. 

 The ripe capsule is orange-yellow. The winter-buds are ovoid, more or less acute, 

 and on the older branches the bark splits and becomes loose and fibrous. 



Celastrus gemmata Loesener in Bot. Jahrb. XXX. 468 (1902). 



Kiangsi: Kuling, thickets, alt. 1300 m., July 28, 1907 (No. 1519; 

 climber 5 m.). Western Hupeh: Hsing-shan Hsien, thickets, Octo- 

 ber 1907 (Nos. 502, 363; climber 3-5 m., fruit golden); Fang Hsien, 

 margin of woods, June and October 1901 (Veitch Exped. Nos. 919, 972, 

 2215**); without locality, A. /fmr?/ (No. 7614). Western Szech'uan: 

 west and near Wen-ch'uan Hsien, thickets, alt. 2000 m., July 1908 

 (No. 2305; climber 3-5 m., flowers greenish); near Monkong Ting, 

 thickets, alt. 2000-2300 m., June 19, 1908 (No. 2305%- climber 3-5 m., 

 flowers greenish); southeast of Tachien-lu, thickets, alt. 1600-2300 m., 

 June and October 1908 (No. 1302; climber 3-6 m., flowers greenish, 

 fruit orange-yellow). Yunnan: Mengtsze forests, alt. 1800-2000 

 m., A.Henry (Nos. 9782% 10531, 11471); south of the Red River from 

 Manmei, alt. 2000 m., A. Henry (No. 9679'*). 



This handsome species is common and widely distributed in central and western 

 China and is easily recognized by its large pointed winter-buds. The leaves are 

 very variable in shape, subcoriaceous in texture and with well-marked reticulate 

 venation. Occasionally the principal veins on the under side of the leaf are slightly 

 puberulous or are coated with scalj^ excrescences. The fruit is very large and golden- 

 yellow, and the shoots are angular when young and densely lenticellate. Henry !s 

 No. 7614 was distributed from Kew as C. articulata. Loesener refers Henry's No. 

 9679^ to C. stylosa Wallich, but the winter-buds in that species are rounded or very 

 obtuse. 



Celastrus Hookeri Prain in Jour. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, LXXII. pt. 2, 

 197 (1904); Novit. Ind. 418 (1905). 



Celastrus stylosa Lawson in Hooker f., Fl. Brit. Ind. I. 618 (pro parte, non 

 WaUich) (1875). 



Eastern Szech'uan: Wushan Hsien, without locality, A. Henry 

 (No. 5559). Western Szech'uan: Wa-shan, thickets, alt. 2000 m., 



