THYMELAEACEAE. — STELLERA 551 



Daphne papi/rifera Siebold in Verh. Bot. Genootsch. XII. pt. 1, 22 (nomen 



nudum) {Srjn. PL Oecon. Jap. No. 130) (1830). 

 Edgeworthia papyri/era Siebold & Zuccarini in Abb. Akad. Munch. IV. pt. 



III. 199 {Fl. Jap. Fam. Nat. II. 75) (184G). — Miquel in Ann. Mus. Lvgd.- 



Bat. III. 135 (1867); Prol. Fl. Jap. 299 (1867). — Schneider, III. Handb. 



Laubholzk. II. 403 (1909), excl. fig. 

 Edgeworthia Gardneri Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 396 (non Meisner) 



(1891). 

 Daphne nudifiora, Hort. 



Kiangsi: Kuling, side of streams, spontaneous, alt. 1200 m., July 

 29, 1907 (No. 1582; bush 1-1.6 m. tall). Western Hupeh: com- 

 monly cultivated around Ichang, alt. 300-1000 m., April and October 

 1907 (No, 3555; bush 0.6-1.6 m. tall, flowers yellow); without precise 

 locality, April 1900 (Veitch Exped. No. 56). 



I do not think that tomentosa is to be considered the oldest specific name 

 for E. papyri/era, as it was not Thunberg's intention to name this plant, when 

 publishing his Magnolia tomentosa, but he intended to give a specific name to the 

 Magnolia previously distinguished by him as M. glauca, a flore albo, named 

 later M. kohus by De Candolle. That this was his intention is shown by the fact 

 that the plant he figured afterwards {Icon. PI. Jap. V. t, 8) as M. tomentosa is 

 M. kobu-s De Candolle. Magnolia sericca which is based entirely on our plant is 

 a nomen nudum. Daphne papyrifera also is a nomen nudum, and therefore E. 

 chrysantha has the priority, as it was published several months earUer than E. 

 papyrifera. In the herbarium of the Arnold Arboretum there is a specimen of 

 this species collected at the Villa Thuret near Antibes, France, by Ch. Naudin in 

 1889 and labeled "Daphne nudifiora L.", but I have been unable to find this 

 name mentioned anywhere in botanical or horticultural literature. 



The Chinese colloquial name of this plant is " Meng-hwa." 



A picture of it will be found under No. 0353 of the collection of Wilson's photo- 

 graphs. 



STELLERA Gmel. 



Stellera chamaejasme Linnaeus, Spec. 559 (1753). — Willdenow, 

 Spec. II. pt. 1, 429 (1799). — Meisner in De Candolle, Prodr. XIV. 549 

 (1857). — Hooker f., Fl. Brit. Ind. V. 196 (1890). — Hemsley in Jour. 

 Linn. Soc. XXVI. 401 (1894). 



Fasserina Stelleri Wikstrom in Svensk. Vetensk. Akad. Handl. 1818, 321. 

 Passerina Chamaejasme Fischer ex Meisner in De Candolle, Prodr. XIV. 

 549 (prosynon.) (1857). 



Western Szech'uan: Tachien-lu, moor-lands, alt. 2700-3600 m., 

 June and September 1908 (No. loii; flowers white and various 

 colors, fragrant). Eastern Tibet: between Derge and Tachien-lu, 

 1911, John R. Muir. Yunnan: Mengtsze, A. Henry (No. 10126). 



According to Mr. Muir the root is used by the Tibetans in making paper. 



