TAMAKICACEAE. — MYRICAKIA 407 



Western Hupeh: Ichang, cultivated, April 1901 (Veitoh Exped. No. 1900). 

 This species is j)robably only rarely cultivated in China. Wilson found it in the 

 garden of a Mr. Wong, who had introduced plants from European nurseries. 



Tamarix juniperina Bunge in Mem. Sav. Etr. Acad. Sci. St. PUershourg, II. 

 102 {Enum. PI. Chin. Bor. 28) (1833). — Bunge, Tent. Gen. Tamar. 45 (1852).— 

 Schneider, III. Handh. Laubholzk. II. 343, fig. 229 e-i (1909). 



Tamarix chinensis Siebold & Zuccarini, Fl. Jap. I. 132, t. 71 (non Loureiro) 

 (1840). — Diels in Not. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh, VII. 91 (1912). 



Yunnan: Lichiang valley, cultivated, May 1906, G. Forrest (No. 2039). 



MYRICARIA Desv. 



Myricaria bracteata Royle, III. Bot. Himal. 214, t. 44 (1839). — 

 Boissier, Fl. Or. I. 763 (1867). 



Myricaria Hoffineisteri Klotzsch, Bot. Ergeb. Reise Prim Waldem. 120, t. 

 25 (1862). 



Myricaria germanica Dyer in Hooker f., Fl. Brit. Ind. I. 250 (non Desvaux) 

 (1875). — Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXIII. 347 (1888), synon. " Myri- 

 caria alopecuroides " excluso. 



Western Szech'uan: beds of streams, common, October 1910, 

 alt. 900-2400 m. (No. 4344; bush 1-3 m. tall, flowers pink); beds of 

 streams, alt. 300-2700 m., September 1903 (Veitch Exped. No. 3191); 

 Min River, sandy and stony places, June 1903 (Veitch Exped. No. 

 3192). Western Hupeh: Ichang, A. Henry (Nos. 22, 843). 



This species is most closely related to M. germanica Desvaux, but differs from it 

 chiefly in its shorter acuminate bracts, broader sepals with a broad membranous 

 usually pink margin and petals nearly twice as long as the sepals. 



Myricaria dahurica Ehrenberg in Linnaea, II. 278 (1827). — De 

 Candolle, Prodr. III. 98 (1828). 



Tamarix dahurica Willdenow in Abh. Akad. Wiss. Berlin, 1812-13, 85 (1816). 



Western Szech'uan : Tachien-lu, beds of streams, alt. 1500-4000 

 m., July 7, 1908 (No. 3268; shrub 3-4 m. tall, flowers pink); without 

 precise locality, alt. 2400 m., May 1904 (Veitch Exped. No. 3193). 

 Western Kansu: Minchow, Tow River, alt. 2100-2700 m., W. 

 Purdom. 



