CELASTRACEAE. — CELASTRUS 353 



October 1908 (No. 1184; scandent bush 5 m., fruit orange-yellow). 

 Yunnan: Mengtsze, forests, alt. 1600-2000 m., A. Henry (Nos. 

 10522, 11267). Fokien: Dunn's Exped., April to June 1905 (Hong- 

 kong Herb., Nos. 2479, 2479'', 3420). India : " Khasia, alt. 4-5000 

 ped.," Hooker & Thomson; Sikkim, *' Singalala forests, alt. 7000 ft.," 

 January 1900, C. G. Rogers. 



In our specimens the filaments of the stamens are glabrous; the capsules are 

 orange-yellow, and the leaves on the fruiting branches dry green; on the flowering 

 branches they dry brownish. They all agree well with Rogers' Sikkim specimen. 

 The shoots, peduncles and pedicels on the specimens enumerated are more or less 

 rufo-pubevulous, a peculiarity unknown to us among other species except C. 

 Kusanoi Hayata from Formosa. We suspect the specimens referred to C. stylosa 

 by Franchet (PL Delavay. 131 [1889]) belong here. Loesener (in Bot. Jahrb. XXX. 

 469 [1902]) refers Henry's No. 11267 to C. articulata. The specimens from Fokien 

 seem to differ somewhat from typical C. Hookeri, but the material consisting of 

 immature fruit only is too imperfect for definite determination. 



Celastrus Hindsii Bentham, var. Henryi Loesener, in Bot. Jahrb. 

 XXIX. 444 (1900); XXX. 467 (1902). 



Western Hupeh: ChangloHsien, thickets, alt. 1150m., May 1907 

 (No, 561='; scandent bush 1-2 m.); Ichang, ravines, alt. 300-1000 m., 

 July and October, 1907 (No. 561; scandent bush 1-2 m., fruit orange); 

 Patung Hsien, thickets, 1000 m., October 1901 (Veitch Exped. No. 

 450); without locality, A. Henry (Nos. 3495, 3495^ 3856). Western 

 Szech'uan: Mt. Omei, alt. 1000 m., September 1908 (No. 2307; 

 scandent bush 3 m.); Kiating Fu, roadside thickets, alt. 600 m., May 

 1904 (Veitch Exped. Nos. 3324, 3324^). 



This is a common evergreen slu-ub at low altitudes in western Hupeh and 

 Szech'uan. In addition to the characters given by Loesener it differs from the type 

 species in having subsessile and very shortly peduncled cymes. 



CLAVIS SPECIERUM SINENSIUM JAPONICARUMQUE GENERIS 

 CELASTRI. 



Capsula 3-locularis, 3-6-sperma. FoUa decidua. 



Inflorescentia semper terminalis, paniculata, pedunculata, gemmis destituta. 

 Ramuli teretes. 



Folia plerumque oblonga; petioli 0.5-1 cm. longi .... 1. C. dependeno. 

 Folia plerumque obovata v. late elliptica; petioh 1 cm. longi v. ultra. 



2. C. paniculata. 

 Ramuli angulares. Folia plerumque late ovala, ad 12 cm. lata; petioli 2 cm. 



longi v. ultra 3. C. angulata. 



Inflorescentiae cymosae, axillares et insuper saepe in spicam v. racemum termi- 

 nalem gemmiferum collectae. 

 Foha subtus et interdum supra glauca. Flores partim racemos terminales 

 formantes. 



