GUTTIFERAE. — HYPERICUM 403 



Western Szech'uan: Yangtsze cliffs, June 1903 (Veitch Exped. 

 Nos. 3261, 3263). 



Hypericum patulum, var. Henryi Veitch in Gard. Chron. ser, 3, 

 XXXVI. 229 (sine descriptione) (1904). — Bean in Gard. Chron. ser. 

 3, XXXVIII. 179 (1905); Trees & Shrubs Brit. Isl. I. 639 (1914). — 

 Rehder in Bailey, Standard Cycl. Hort. III. 1631 (1915). 



A typo recedit praecipue sepalis ovatis v. ovato-oblongis acutis v. 

 acuminatis, stylis saepe ovario longioribus. Cymae 3-7-florae, inter- 

 dum ad 15-florae; flores 4-5 cm. diam. 



Western Hupeh: Patung Hsien, alt. 1200-1500 m., July 1907 

 (No. 2419; shrub 0.75-1 m., flowers yellow); without precise locality, 

 June 1900 (Veitch Exped. No. 2216); without precise locality, A. 

 Henry (No. Q099). Western Szech'uan: west and near Wen- 

 chuan Hsien, thickets, alt. 1200-1800 m., July 1908 (No. 2418; bush 

 about 1 m. (No. 2418); same locality, A. von Rosthorn (No. 3112); 

 Tachien-lu, abundant in thickets, alt. 1500-2400 m., July and Novem- 

 ber 1908 (No. 1355; shrub 0.75-1 m. tall, flowers golden). Yunnan: 

 Mengtsze, alt. 1500 m., A. Henry (No. 9986). 



This variety is easily distinguished from the type by its narrower acute sepals, 

 which are broad and rounded in the type. The cymes are several- to many-flowered, 

 the flowers larger and the leaves, too, are usually larger and of thicker texture. At 

 the Arnold Arboretum it has proved of more vigorous growth and hardier than the 

 type. This variety seems to be a parallel case with H. H ookerianum, var. Les- 

 chenaultii Dyer, which also differs in its acute sepals from the type. 



Hypericum Hookerianum Wight & Arnott, Prodr. Fl. Ind. 99 

 (1834). — Dyer in Hooker f., Fl. Brit. Ind. I. 254 (1875). — Schneider, 

 ni. Handh. Laubholzk. II. 335, fig. 223 e (1909). 



Hypericum oblongifolium Hooker f. in Bot. Mag. LXXXII. t. 4949 (nonChoisy) 



(1856). 

 Hypericum patulum Diels in Not. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh, VII. 129, 224 (non 



Thunberg) (1912). 



Western Szech'uan: Tachien-lu, thickets, alt. 1500-2400 m., 

 July 1908 (No. 1355''; bush 1 m. tall, flowers golden); same locality, 

 alt. 2100-2500 m., October 1910 (No. 4338; bush 1 m. tall); same lo- 

 cality, A. E. Pratt (No. 292). Yunnan: Lichiang valley, alt. 2500 

 m., June 1906, G. Forrest (No. 2425); Tali range, alt. 2100-3300 m., 

 June-September 1906, G. Forrest (No. 4300). 



This species is very near //. patulum Thunberg and possibly is only a variety 

 of it. 



