556 WILSON EXPEDITION TO CHINA 



BRASSAIOPSIS Dene. & Planch. 



Brassaiopsis fatsioides Harms, n. sp. 



Arbuscula, 1-2 m. alta (ex Wilson). Folia ampla, petiolata petiolo subglabro v. 

 apicem versus parce puberulo, profunde palmato-lobata, basi cordata, membra- 

 nacea v. papyracea, subtus sparse pilosula v. subglabra, parte integra 3-6 cm. 

 alta, lobis 7-9 oblanceolatis v. oblongo-oblanceolatis usque oblongis sinu latiusculo 

 rotundato basi remotis, apice acuminulatis, serrulato-denticulatis, 6-22 cm. longis, 

 3-8 cm. latis. Panicula elongata, rhachi pilosula v. parce puberula, umbellis 

 multifloris pedunculatis pedunculis pilosulis v. puberulis 2-3 cm. v. ultra longis; 

 pedicelli subglabri v. puberuli, 0.5-1.5 cm. v. serius 2 cm. longi; calycis margo 

 brevissimus non v. vix denticulatus ; petala 5, acuta, 3.5-4 mm. longa; stamina 5; 

 ovarium obconicum, glabrum v. subglabrum, loculis 2, disco crasso hemisphaerico, 

 stylo unico, cum stylo 4-5 mm. longum. 



Western Szech'uan: without precise locality, roadsides, alt. 1400 m., 1904 

 (Veitch Exped. No. 3967). 



This species is most closely related to B. Griffilhii Clarke and to B. mitis Clarke, 

 but it differs from the former in its more deeply divided leaves and in the obsolete 

 calyx-teeth and from B. mitis chiefly in the much slighter pubescence of the in- 

 florescence. Unfortunately the material 1 have seen of this species consists only of 

 a large leaf and parts of an inflorescence. 



NOTHOPANAX Seem. 

 Nothopanax Davidii Harms in BoL Jahrh. XXIX. 488 (1900). 



Panax Davidii Franchet in Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, ser. 2, VIII. 248 {PL 



David. II. 66) (1886); Jour, de Bot. X. 306 (1896). 

 Acanthopanax diversifolium Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXIII. 340 (1888). 

 Nothopanax diversifolius Harms in Engler & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. III. 



Abt. 8, 48 (1894). 



Western Hupeh : Fang Hsien, woods, alt. 900-1200 m., July 1907 

 (No. 1952; small tree 5-7 m. tall); same locality, alt. 1200-1400 m., 

 August 1907 (No. 1957; bush 3 m. tall); Patung Hsien, thickets, alt. 

 600-1200 m., July and October 1907 (No. 1953; small tree 3.5-7 m. 

 tall, flowers white, fruit black) ; same locality, alt. 900 m., August 1907 

 (No. 1958; bush 2-3 m. tall, flowers greenish yellow); Hsing-shan 

 Hsien, thickets, alt. 900-1500 m., August-November 1907 (Nos. 332, 

 614 in part, 1956, 1957, 1959, i960; bush 2-3 m. tall, flowers white, 

 fruit black); Changlo Hsien, thickets, alt. 900-1200 m., September 

 1907 (No. 614 in part; bush 2-3 m. tall, flowers greenish); north and 

 south of Ichang, July 1901 (Veitch Exped. No. 1564; bush or small 

 tree, 5-7 m. tall); without precise locahty, A. Henry (No. 2969, type 

 No. of Acanthopanax diversifolium Hemsley, 6608''). Western Sze- 

 ch'uan: Mupin, thickets, alt. 1200-1800 m., August 1908 (No. 875; 

 bush 1.3-2 m. tall, fruit black; Wa-shan, alt. 1800-2100 m., October 



