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white, fruit greenish, ovoid to elongate); same locaUty, April 1900 

 (Veitch Exped. No. 348); same locality, A. Henry (Nos. 3494, 3564, 

 3955, 4377") ; Fang Hsien, side of streams, alt. 1200-1500 m.. May 19, 

 1907 (No. 2012; climber 3-G m., flowers white, fragrant) ; without pre- 

 cise locality, A. Hennj (Nos. 5797, 6010, 7243). Western Szech'uan : 

 Wa-shan, thickets, alt. 1500-2200 m., June 1908 (No. 2016; 3-7 m., 

 flowers white); Mt. Omei, May 1904 (Veitch Exped. No. 4762); 

 Nanch'uan, A. von Rosthorn (No. 1824); without precise locality, alt. 

 1100 m., May 1904 (Veitch Exped. No. 3273). 



Actinidia venosa Rehder, n. sp. 

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



Frutex scandens, 3-8-metralis; ramuli medulla ampla alba lamel- 

 lata, juniores puberuli v. tomentosi, mox glabrescentes et fuscescentes, 

 interdum setacei, annotini purpureo-brunnei lenticellis oblongis albidis 

 notati. Folia membranacea, ovata ad ovato-oblonga, ovalia v. elliptica 

 ad elliptico-oblonga, acuminata v. longe acuminata, basi plerumque 

 rotundata, interdum subcordata, rarius late cuneata, denticulato- 

 serrulata v. setaceo-serrulata, 5-15 cm. longa et 3-6, rarius ad 7.5 cm. 

 lata, supra laete viridia, glabra v. initio sparse setosa, subtus vix palli- 

 diora, initio ad nervos et venulas plus minusve tomentosa v. interdum 

 fere glabra, demum glabra v. fere glabra, utrinque nervis 7-11 subtus 

 manifeste elevatis ante marginem anastomasantibus et trabeculis 

 numerosis parallelis manifeste elevatis conjunctis; petioli graciles, 

 1.5-4 cm. longi, initio puberuli v. fere glabri, demum glabri. Flores 

 flavi, 1.5-2 cm. diam., in cymis petiolo brevioribus; mascuU in cymis 

 satis densis, 3-7-floris; peduncuU 0.5-1 cm. longi, ut pedicelli sub- 

 aequilongi fulvo-tomentosi; sepala ovato-oblonga, 5 mm. longa, 

 utrinque fulvo-tomentosa; petala elliptico-oblonga, Integra v. rarius 

 eroso-denticulata, circiter 10 mm. longa et 5-6 mm. lata; stamina 

 petalis triente breviora, antheris 3 mm. longis basi emarginatis; rudi- 

 mentum pistilli subglobosum, parvum, tomentosum; flores herma- 

 phroditi in cymis 1-5-floris, petiolo brevioribus; sepala ut in floribus 

 masculis; petala ovaha, circiter 8 mm. longa et 5 mm. lata; stamina 

 dimidia petala aequantia; ovarium subglobosum, dense villosum; 

 styli circiter 15, patentes, apice incrassati et leviter curvati. Fructus 

 solitarii v. plures, ovoidei v. subglobosi, circiter 1.5 cm. longi, brunnei, 

 maculis albidis satis dense conspersi, pedunculis 1.5-2 cm. longis; 

 semina ovoidea, vix compressa, minute foveolata, purpureo-brunnea, 

 vix 2 mm. longa. 



