THYMELAEACEAE. — DAPHNE 541 



apiculatus, ruber, 6-7 mm. longiis; semen globoso-ovoideum, Icviter 

 apiculatum, 6-7 mm. altum, fusco-brunneum, nitidum. 



Western Hupeh: north and south of Ichang, woodlands, alt. 

 1200-1800 m., June 1907 (No. 3728, type); same locality, May 1900 

 (Veitch Exped. No. 637); Hsing-shan Hsien, woods, alt. 1200-1500 

 m., May 1907 (No. 2942; flowers greenish-white or pink, fragrant); 

 same locahty, alt. 600-900 m. (No. 2947; flowers pink); Fang Hsien, 

 woods and forests, alt. 2200-2700 m., June 17 and October 1910 (No. 

 4454); Changyang Hsien, woods, alt. 1200 m., June 1907 (No. 3728''); 

 Changlo Hsien, woods, alt. 900-1400 m.. May 1907 (No. 2943); 

 without precise locality, A . Henry (No. 6838) . Western Szech'uan: 

 west of Kuan Hsien, thickets, alt. 2100 m., June and August 1908 (No. 

 802); west and near Wen-ch'uan Hsien, woods, alt. 1500-1800 m., 

 July 1908 (No. 2948). 



This species is closely related to D. odora Thunberg, which differs in its brown 

 glabrous or nearly glabrous branches, the less fleshy more coriaceous leaves, and the 

 many-flowered sessile heads surrounded by the persistent bracts, and by the 

 smaller less lustrous blackish seeds. From the preceding species it diff'ers in its 

 yellowish strigose branches, the longer tube and the shorter lobes of its flowers and 

 the larger lustrous dark brown seeds. Two small specimens from Yunnan, without 

 locality and collector, kindly sent by Mgr. L^veille, apparently belong to this species. 



A picture of D. Wilsonii will be found under No. 0353 in the collection of Wilson's 

 photographs. 



Daphne retusa Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXIX. 318 (1893); 

 XXVI. 401 (1894). — Keissler in Bot. Jahrh. XXIX. 96 (1898).— 

 Stapf in Bot. Mag. CXXXVIII. f. 8430 (1912). 



Western Szech'uan: Pan-lan-shan, west of Kuan Hsien, upland 

 thickets, alt. 3000-3600 m., June 1908 (No. 2945; shrub 0.3-0.6 m. 

 tall, flowers pink, fragrant) ; Sungpan Ting, uplands, alt. 3300-3900 m., 

 August 25, 1910 (No. 4019; shrub 0.3-0.6 m. tall, fruit scarlet); near 

 Tachien-lu, woods, alt. 3000-3600 m., July 1903 (Veitch Exped. No. 

 4439; shrub 0.6-1.2 m. tall, flowers pink). 



This is closely related to the preceding species and differs chiefly in the smaller 

 leaves emarginate at the apex and in the lower habit of the plant. 



Daphne modesta Rehder, n. sp. 



Frutex humilis ramosus, 15-45 cm. altus; ramuli satis robusti inter- 

 dum valde abbreviati, teretes, pallide griseo-flavidi, vetustiores cine- 

 rei, hornotini dense strigosi. Folia alterna, chartacea, lineari-oblonga 

 V. anguste-oblonga, obtusiuscula v. obtusa, basi attenuata, margine 

 revoluta, 1.5-3 cm. longa et 0.3-0.6 cm. lata, supra livido-viridia, 

 glabra, subtus vix pallidiora, fere glabra v. sparsissime, ad costam paullo 



