EBENACEAE. — DIOSPYROS 591 



Diospyros armata Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 69 (1889). — 

 Bean in Kew Bull. Misc. Inform. 1913, 165. 



Western Hupeh : north of Ichang, alt. 300 m., May 4, 1907 (No. 

 2912; tree 5-10 m. tall, girth 0.5-1.5 m., flowers creamy-white, fra- 

 grant); near Ichang, alt. 300 m.. May 1907 (No. 3730; tree 13 m. 

 tall, flowers white, fragrant); Nanto and mountains to northward, A. 

 Henry (No. 7717, type). 



This is a very rare tree which is known to us from only one or two localities in 

 western Hupeh. The male flowers are urn-shaped, creamy-white and delightfully 

 fragrant; the leaves are very lustrous and dark green. On Henry's specimen in 

 the Gray Herbarium the leaves are oblanceolate-oblong to lanceolate-oblong, but on 

 our specimens which have male flowers the leaves vary from obovate to elliptic 

 and elliptic-lanceolate. The winter-buds are very small, obtuse and pubescent. 

 The tree is deciduous or subevergreen. 



Diospyros sinensis Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 71 (1889) ; in 

 Hooker's Icon. XXIX. t. 2804 (1906). 



Diospyros armata Diels in Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. 525, fig. 4 (non Hemsley) (1900). 



Western Hupeh: cultivated. Temple garden, Ichang, April 1901 

 (Veitch Exped. No. 1902). Western Szech'uan: Wen-ch'uan 

 Hsien, valley of Min River, alt. 1000 m., June 1, 1908 (No. 2910; small 

 tree, 3-8 m. tall); same locality, October 1910 (No. 4617; tree 3-lOm. 

 tall, 1-2.5 m. girth of trunk, fruit orange); same locality, alt. 1100 m., 

 August 1903 (Veitch Exped. No. 4062); Yachou Fu, alt. 600-1000 m., 

 October 1910 (No. 4616; bush 3 m., evergreen, fruit globose, golden); 

 Kiating Fu: hills around city, June 1903 (Veitch Exped. No. 4061; 

 small tree 5 m. tall) ; Mt. Omei, alt. 1300 m., E. Faber (No. 207, tyv^). 



This is a common small evergreen or subevergreen tree in the dry valleys of 

 western Szech'uan. The short trunk is thick, the branches are very numerous and 

 wide-spreading and the branchlets are spiny. 



Diels (1. c.) has mistaken this plant for the rare and very closely allied D. armata 

 Hemsley, which has shorter, more coriaceous oblong-oval to obovate leaves and 

 the male flowers have shorter pedicels and are more numerous in the cyme. 



Here may be added the description of two new species not collected during the 

 Arnold Arboretum Expeditions. 



Diospyros moUifolia Rehder & Wilson, n. sp. 



Arbor 5-6-metralis; rami graciles tomento cinereo v. rufo-cincreo dense obtecti, 

 in secundo v. tertio anno glabrescentes, brunnei v. rubro-brunnei, lenticellati; 

 gemmae parvae, obtusae, villosae. Folia chartacea, decidua v. interdmn sub- 

 persistentia, elliptica, ovalia v. lanceolata, obtusa v. acuminata, mucronata, basi 

 cuneata v. rotundata, 2-6 cm. longe et 1-2.5 cm. lata, supra pustulata, plua 

 minusve molliter adpresse pubescentia, subtus dcnsius pubescentia, ciliata, nervis 

 subtus elevatis; petioli 3-5 mm. longi, dense villosi. Flores masculi plures in 

 cymis axillaribus brevissime pedunculatis, albi; calyx villosus, 3 mm. longus, 



