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stellato-pilosa, mox glabra, subtus dense argenteo-lepidota, saepe 

 squamis fuscescentibus intermixtis, costa media plerumque fuscescente 

 et basin versus pilis stellatis conspersa; petioli 1-3 mm, longi, saepe 

 fasciculato-pilosi. Fructus subglobosus, 5-6 mm. longus, aurantiacus; 

 putamen 4 mm. longum. 



Western Szech'uan : Tachien-lu, woodlands, etc., alt. 2400-3900 

 m., October 1908 (No. 928, type); same locality, alt. 2800-3300 m., 

 July 1902 (Veitch Exped. No. 4421''); Mupin, woodlands, river- 

 bottoms, alt. 2100-3800 m., October 1908 (No. 928, in part); Min 

 valley, alt. 1500-3000 m., August 1902 (Veitch Exped. No. 4421; 

 1-6 m. tall). 



This variety differs from the typical H. rhamnoides in the villous young branch- 

 lets and in the stellate tomentum of the upper surface of the leaves; the villous 

 pubescence being particularly conspicuous on the tips of the growing shoots. In 

 the shape of the leaves and in the stellate pubescence of their upper surface it 

 resembles H. salicifolia D. Don, but is easily distinguished from that species by 

 the lepidote, not tomentose under surface of the leaves. Wilson's No. 4421 forms a 

 transition toward typical H. rhamnoides; the leaves are scaly and sparingly pilose 

 above while young and become glabrous or nearly so with age. Hippophae rham- 

 noides, var. procera seems to grow taller than any other form of the genus. Servettaz 

 gives 9 m. as the maximum height of the species. 



A picture of this tree will be found under No. 172 of the collection of Wilson's 

 photographs and in his Vegetation of Western China, No. 250. 



ELAEAGNUS L. 



Elaeagnus umbellata Thunberg, Fl Jap. 66, t. 14 (1784). — D. Don, 

 Prodr. Fl. Nepal. 68 (1825). — Schlechtendal in De Candolle, Prodr. 

 XIV. 614 (1857). — Maximowicz in Bull. Acad. Sci. St. Petershourg, 

 s6t. 3, XV. 378 (1870); in Mel Biol. VII. 560 (1871). — Hooker f., 

 Fl Bnl Ind. V. 201 (1870). — S. Moore in Jour. BoL XVI. 138 

 (1878). — Hance in Jour. Bol XX. 38 (1882). — Franchet in Mem. 

 Soc. Sci. Nat. Cherbourg, XXIV. 250 (1882). — Hemsley in Jour. 

 Linn. Soc. XXVI. 404 (1894). — Diels in Bol Jahrh. XXXVI. 

 Beibl. LXXXII. 79 (1905); in Nol Bol Gard. Edinburgh, VII. 104, 

 268, 285 (1912). — Shirasawa, Icon. Ess. For. Jap. II. t. 54 (1908). — 

 Servettaz in Bull Herb. Boissier, ser. 2, VIII. 382 (1908); in Bol 

 Centralb. Beih. XXV. 2, 49, fig. 9 (1909). — Pampanini in Nuov. Giorn. 

 Bol Ital n. ser. XVII. 675 (1910). 



Elaeagnus parvifolia Wallich, Cat. No. 4026 (nomen nudum) (1829). — 

 Royle, III. Bot. Himal. 323, t. 81, fig. 1 (1839). — Lindley in Bot. Reg. 

 XXIX. t. 51 (1843). — Schlechtendal in De Candolle, Prodr. XIV. 612 

 (1857). 



