THYMELAEACEAE. — DAPHNE 547 



Yunnan: Mengtsze, mountains north, alt. 1200 (?) m., A. Henry (No. 10859; 

 shrub 2-3 m., flowers white, fragrant). 



This variety differs from the typical form in its stouter glabrous and purplish 

 brown branches, in the more coriaceous shorter and comparatively broader leaves 

 and the shorter villose flowers. In its purple glabrous branches it resembles D. 

 odora, var. atrocauUs Rehder, but differs in the densely villose bracts and the dense 

 heads of villose flowers. By the villosity of its flowers it seems related to D. 

 cannahina, var. bholita Keissler (D. Bholua Hamilton), which I know only from 

 the description, but as nothing is said about any difference in the leaves and in 

 the branches, I must assume that it is not identical with the new variety pro- 

 posed above. 



10. Daphne Feddei Leveille in Fedde, Rep. Spec. Nov. IX. 326 (1911); Fl. 

 Kouy-Tcheou, 416 (1915). 



Daphne Martini Leveille 1. c. X. 369 (1912); 1. c. 416 (1915). 



Kwei-chou: " Gan-Pin," L. Martin (No. 2076, ex Leveille); " Kouy-Yang," 

 /. Chaffanjon & E. Bodinier (No. 2076 ex Leveille); " Yeou-Lang," J. Esquirol 

 (No. 775 ex Leveille). 



Of this species I have seen only a detached flower and a detached leaf sent to 

 me by Mgr. Leveille. Of D. Martini Mgr. Leveille has sent me a small branch; it 

 does not seem to differ specifically from D. Feddei, but the lobes of the perianth 

 are somewhat shorter equaling onl}- about one third of the tube; the inflorescence 

 is 12-flowered and has no bracts left. Daphne Feddei seems nearest to D. papy- 

 racea Wallich, but the flowers are smaller and the lobes are nearly glabrous with 

 the exception of a few hairs on the middle, while the narrow tube is densely pu- 

 bescent up to the base of the lobes. 



11. Daphne acutiloba Rehder. See p. 539. 



12. Daphne Wilsonii Rehder. See p. 540. 



13. Daphne retusa Hemsley. See p. 541. 



14. Daphne aurantiaca Diels in Not. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh, V. 285 (1912). 

 Yunnan : limestone cliffs on the eastern flank of the Lichiang range, alt. 3000- 



3500 m.. May 1906, G. Forrest (No. 2115). 



This is a very distinct species and differs from all allied species in its opposite or 

 sometimes subopposite leaves. Occasionally on vigorous branches it develops 

 axillary small inflorescences below the terminal one. 



15. Daphne angustiloba Rehder, n. sp. 



Frutex circiter 0.5 m. altus, ramis satis tenuibus divaricatis; ramuli homotini 

 teretes sparse strigosi, vetustiores cinereo-brunnei. Folia alterna, subchartacea, 

 subpersistentia lineari-oblonga, acuta et mucronulata, basi attenuata, margine 

 plus minusve revoluta, 1-2.5 cm. longa et 1.5-4 mm. lata, supra obscure viridia, 

 subtus pallidiora, venis obsoletis, costa media supra incisa, subtus manifeste elevata; 

 petioli glabri 1-2 mm. longi. Flores lutei breviter pedicellati in fasciculis termina- 

 libus 2-5-floris quam folia paullo brevioribus; pedicelli glabri, circiter 1 mm. 

 longi; perianthii tubus glaber, tenuis, 10-11 mm. longus, lobi 5, elliptico-oblongi 

 V. oblongi, 4-5 longi; antherae 10, oblongae, 1.25 mm. longae, eae seriei superioris 

 faucem attingentes, inferioris paullo supra medium affixae, filamentis brevissimis; 

 disci squama unica fere quadrata, vix 1 mm. longa; pistillum 3 mm. longum, ovario 

 apice pilosa, stylo brevissimo, stigmatc sublobato. Fructus desideratur. 



Western Szech'uan: southeast of Tachien-lu, woods, alt. 3500 m., June 1904 

 (Veitch Exped. No. 4433). 



