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golden, smooth, oval); Mt. Omei, June 1904 (Veitch Exped. No. 4764; 

 pistillate plant); without precise locality, alt. 1100 m., May 1904 

 (Veitch Exped. No. 3271; flowers rosy pink). Western Hupeh: 

 Fang Hsien, thickets, alt. 1500 m., July 1907 (No. 201 1 ; 4-5 m., flowers 

 white); same locality, woodlands, alt. 1800-2400 m., June 16 and 

 October 1910 (No. 4322; bush 7 m. or more, flowers white, fragrant, 

 fruit oval); Hsing-shan Hsien, June 1907 (Veitch Exped. No. 2096); 

 without precise locality, A. Henry (No. 6821). Northern Shensi: 

 "monte Kan-y-san ad ovest del Lao-y-san," June 11-12, 1897, G. 

 Giraldi (distributed as A. kolomiUa). 



This species is closely related to A. kolomikta Maximowicz, but is readily dis- 

 tinguished by its narrower and smaller leaves, bearded in the axils of the veins 

 beneath but otherwise glabrous or rarely setose on the midrib, and by the tetra- 

 merous flowers, though tetramerous flowers occur also occasionally in A. kolomikta. 

 Nos. 3271 and 4764 differ from the other specimens in the longer, long-acuminate 

 leaves which are bearded in the axils beneath and have more spreading teeth, and 

 in the dark purplish brown branches; No. 3271 differs further in its very pink 

 flowers and No. 4764 which is a pistillate plant in its pentamerous flowers. Dunn 

 refers these specimens to his A. rubricaulis, but from that species they differ con- 

 siderably in the lamellate pith, in the thin membranous closely and finely serrulate 

 leaves rounded at the base, and in the very slender-stalked tetramerous staminate 

 flowers. 



A picture of this plant will be found under No. 098 of the collection of Wilson's 

 photographs. 



Actinidia callosa Lindley, Nat. Syst. Bot. ed. 2, 439 (1836). — Dyer in 

 Hooker f., Fl. Brit. Ind. I. 286 (1874). — Hemsley in Jour. Unn. Soc. 

 XXIII. 78 (1886). — Finet & Gagnepain in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, LII. 

 Mem. IV. 19 (1905); Contrih. Fl. As. Or. 11. 19 (1907). — Schneider, 

 III. Handb. Lauhholzk. II. 324, fig. 216 1 (1909). — Dunn in Jour. 

 Linn. Soc. XXXIX. 19 (1911). — Leveille, Fl. Kouy-Tcheou, 413 

 (1915). 



Yunnan: Mengtsze, alt. 1600 m., A. Henry (No. 10824, white flowers); 

 Bouth of Red River from Manpan, alt. 2100 m. (No. 10050^; yellow flowers). 



Actinidia callosa, var. Henryi Maximowicz in Act. Hort. Petrop. 

 XL 36 (1890). — Finet & Gagnepain in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, LII. 

 Mem. IV. 19 (1905); Contrih. Fl. As. Or. II. 19 (1907). — Leveille, Fl 

 Kouy-Tcheou, 413 (1915). 



Actinidia callosa Diels in Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. 470 (non Lindley) (1900). 



Actinidia curvidens Dunn in Kew Bull. Misc. Inform. 1906, 1. 



Actinidia callosa, forma C. Dunn in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXXIX. 406 (1911). 



Western Hupeh: north and south of Ichang, common, alt. 1200- 

 1500 m.. May and October 1907 (No. 512; climber 5-7 m., flowers 



