ELAEAGNACEAE. — ELAEAGNUS 417 



This species is well characterized by its large silvery white flowers and is most 

 closely related to E. Loureirii Champion, which is easily distinguished by its ferrugi- 

 nous flowers with the lobes lepidote inside, not stellate-pilose and by the larger 

 leaves. 



Elaeagnus conferta Roxburgh, Fl. Ind. I. 460 (1820). — D. Don, Prodr. Fl. 

 Nepal. 67 (1825). — Schlechtendal in De CandoUe, Prodr. XIV. 612 (1857); in 

 Linnaea, XXX. 367 (1860). — Servettaz in Bot. Cenlralb. Beih. XXXV. 2, 89, 

 fig. 5, 1-6, fig. 12 (1909). 



Elaeagnus latifoUa Hooker f., Fl. Brit. Ind. V. 202 (pro parte) (1890). 



Yunnan: Szemao, forests south, alt. 1500 m., A. Henry (No. 12680; cUmbing 

 shrub). 



This species apparently has not been reported from China before. 



Elaeagnus sarmentosa Rehder, n. sp. 



Frutex alte scandens, inermis, ramis flexiUbus tenuibus, annotinis ferrugineis, 

 vetustioribus flavido-griseis; gemmae ferrugineae. Folia persistentia, chartacea, 

 elUptico-oblonga, breviter acuminata, basi late cuneata v. fere rotundata, 8-13 

 cm. longa et 3.2-5.5 cm. lata, supra luteo-viridia, maturitate glabra, rete vascular! 

 in sicco prominente, subtus argentea et satis dense squamis ferrugineis conspersa, 

 nitida, costa media densissime ferrugineo-lepidota, nervis utrinsecus 7-8 supra in 

 sicco prominulis subtus elevatis, costa media supra vix impressa basin versus 

 lepidota; petioli late canaliculati canaliculo medio elevato, 12-18 mm. longi, 

 ferruginei. Flores 1-3 in ramulis brevissimis aphyllis petiolo multoties brevioribus 

 axillaribus, graciliter pedicellati, nutantes; ovarium ovoideum, 3 mm. longum, 

 ferrugineo-lepidotum; tubus perigonii cylindricus, basin versus leviter angustatus et 

 supra ovarium distincte constrictus, 8-9 mm. longus, ut lobi squamis ferrugineis 

 paucioribus minoribusque pallidioribus mixtis obtectus; lobi late ovati basi con- 

 stricti, breviter, sed manifesto acuminati, 5 mm. longi, intus dense stellato-tomentosi; 

 antherae oblongae, obtusae, 2.25 mm. longae: filamenta antheris plus quam duplo 

 breviora, basi linea incrassata tubum glabrum et lobos stellato-tomentosos dis- 

 tinct issime separante conjuncta; stylus antheras superans, glaber. Fructus 

 desideratur. 



Yunnan: Mengtsze, forest, alt. 1500 m., A. Henry (No. 11439; large climber). 



This species seems most nearly related to E. Henryi Warburg, which is easily 

 distinguished by its thick coriaceous leaves, lustrous and without reticulation above, 

 by the smaller, slenderer and paler flowers gradually narrowed toward the base, 

 the triangular not acuminate lobes and by the shorter style. Henry's Nos. 11309 

 and 11332 from Mengtsze and No. 12684 from Szemao appear closely related to 

 E. sarmentosa, but they differ in the silvery under surface of the leaves destitute of 

 brown dots or in No. 11332 only sHghtly dotted, in their shorter deeply and nar- 

 rowly grooved petioles and in the paler and smaller flowers with shorter and less 

 acuminate lobes. From E. Henryi Warburg, these specimens differ in their 

 chartaceous not coriaceous leaves reticulate above, and in their wider flowers 

 scarcely narrowed toward the base and distinctly contracted above the ovary. 

 They may belong to a distinct species, but all three differ slightly from each other. 



