CORNACEAE. 



Determined by Alfred Rehder. 



TORRICELLIA DC. 



TorriceUia angulata Oliver in Hooker's Icon.XXlX. 1. 1893 (1889).— 

 Harms in Bot. Jahrh. XXIX. 50G (1900). — Wangerin in Engler, 

 Pflanzenr. IV.-229, 33, fig. 6 (1910).— Leveille, i^L Komj-Tcheou, 117 

 (1914). 



TorriceUia intermedia Harms in Bot. Jahrh. XXIX. 507 (1900). — Wangerin 

 in Engler, Pflanzenr. IV.-229, 33 (1910). 



Western Hupeh: Hsing-shan Hsien, thickets and roadsides, rare, 

 alt. 1000 m.. May 8 and June 7, 1907 (No. 2349; bush 1-2 m. tall, 

 flowers dirty white). Eastern Szech'uan : Taning Hsien, alt. 600- 

 1300 m., July 1910 (No. 4611; bush 2-7 m. tall, fruit black); Wushan 

 Hsien, A. Henry (No. 5524). Western Szech'uan: Nanch'uan, 

 A. von Rosthorn (No. 1542, type of T. intermedia). 



TorriceUia intermedia does not seem to be specifically distinct from T. angulata, 

 for Wilson's No. 4611 is clearly intermediate between von Rosthorn's and Henry's 

 specimens; the leaves are sparingly dentate between the lobes, and the veins on the 

 underside are very slightly and sparingly pubescent, while in Henry's specimen they 

 are perfectly glabrous with the exception of small tufts of hairs in the axils of the 

 veins. The staminate flowers of T. angulata not previously described are borne in 

 many-flowered and much-branched drooping nearly sessile panicles 6-10 cm. long 

 and developed from leafless axillary and terminal buds; rachis slightly puberiilous, 

 the ramifications subtended by small lanceolate or irregularly ovate-lanceolate 

 scarious and glabrous bracts; pedicels with two small bractlets about the middle, 

 2-3 mm. long; tube of the calyx nearly flat, with very short broadly triangular or 

 obsolete teeth; petals oblong-lanecolate, slightly concave with incurved apex, 3-4 

 mm. long; stamens with short filaments about 1 mm. long and with broadly oval 

 anthers 1.5 mm. long; the rudimentary pistil consists of a flat disk. 



A picture of this plant will be found under No. 0166, of the collection of Wilson's 

 photographs. 



Here may be added a reference to a species not collected during the Arnold 

 Arboretum Expeditions. 



TorriceUia tiliifolia De Candolle, Prodr. IV. 257 (1830). — Seemann in Jour. 

 Bot. III. 361, t. 41 (1865). — Clarke in Hooker f., Fl. Brit. Ind. II. 748 (1879). — 

 Wangerin in Engler, Pflanzenr. IV. -229, 31 (1910). 



Sambucus tiliaefolia Wallich, Cat. No. 483 (nomen nudum) (1828). 

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