DILLENIACEAE. — ACTINIDIA 385 



woodlands, alt. 600-900 m., September 6, 1908 (No. 932, in part; 7 m. 

 tall) ; Mt. Omei, June 1904 (Veitch Exped. No. 4760) ; without precise 

 locality, May 1904 (Veitch Exped. Nos. 3272, 3272''). 



This is a very distinct species chiefly characterized by the coriaceous, remotely 

 mucronate-serrulate leaves and red flowers borne on separate leafless branches or 

 along the leafless base of the shoots. Seed of this species has been distributed by 

 the Arnold Arboretum erroneously as A. Henryi. 



Actinidia chinensis Planchon in Lond. Jour. Bot. VI. 303 (1847). — 

 Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXIII. 78 (1886). — Oliver in Hooker's 

 Icon. XVI. 1. 1593 (1887).— Diels in Bot. Jahrh. XXIX. 470 (1900). — 

 J. H. Veitch in Jour. Hort. Soc. Lond. XXVIII. 59, t. 15 (1903). — 

 Finet & Gagnepain in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, LII. Mem. IV. 18 (1905); 

 Contrib. Fl. As. Or. II. 18 (1907). — Schneider, III. Ilandh. Lauhholzk. 

 II. 323, fig. 216° (1909). — Woodall in Gard. Chron. ser. 3, XLVI. 79, 

 t. (1909). — Pampanini in Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. n. ser. XVII. 431 

 (1910). — Dunn in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXXIX. 408 (1911). — Sprague 

 in Bot. Mag. CXL. t. 8538 (1914). 



Western Hupeh: north and south of Ichang, thickets, common, 

 alt. 1200-1800 m., June 1907 (No. 347, in part; climber 7-8 m., 

 flowers white changing to buff -yellow) ; Changyang Hsien, June 1901 

 (Veitch Exped. No. 993) ; without precise locality, April 1900 (Veitch 

 Exped. No. 185); without precise locality, A. Henry (Nos. 2076, 

 5574, 5834, 5834-); " Lan-tau," alt. 900 m., June 3-18, 1906, C. 

 Silvestri (No. 1467). Western Szech'uan: west and near Wen- 

 ch'uan Hsien, alt. 1500-2400 m., June 1908 (No. 347, in part; climber 

 5-8 m., flowers white, quickly changing to buff-yellow, fragrant); 

 Nanch'uan, A. von Rosthorn (No. 1997). Chekiang: Ningpo, D. 

 Macgregor, 1908. 



Pictures of this plant will be found under Nos. 107, 108, 347, 407, 0129 of the 

 collections of Wilson's photographs and also in his VegctatioJi of Westerri China, 

 Nos. Ill, 112, 113. An account of the ornamental and economic value of this 

 Actinidia appears in Wilson's A Naturalist in Western China, II. 32 (1913). 



Actinidia spec. 



Western Szech'uan; Ching-chi Hsien, alt. 1800 m., August 1908 

 (No. 854; climber 5-6 m., fruit oval, red-purple, 18 mm. long). 



This specimen seems to represent a distinct species, but the material is so 

 incomplete that it is impossible to be sure. In its oval-oblong purple fruit it 

 resembles A. -purpurea Rehder, but the fruit is not rostrate at the apex; the 

 leaves are generally ovate, usually subcordate at the base, sparingly setose above, 

 bright green beneath and glabrous or sparingly villous on the midrib, minutely 



