596 WILSON EXPEDITION TO CHINA 



Symplocos myriantha Rehder, n. sp. 



Arbor 10-metralis ramulis gracilibus; ramuli hornotini purpuras- 

 centes, sparse fulvo-strigosi, annotini fusco-purpurei, glabri, lenti- 

 cellis sparsis minutis conspersi. Folia chartacea, persistentia, elliptica 

 V. oblongo-elliptica, subito acuminata, basi late cuneata, juniora denti- 

 culata denticulis initio glandula elongato-eonica leviter curvata mox 

 decidua munitis, demum indistincte repando-denticulata, 5-8 cm. 

 longa et 2.5-4 cm. lata, luteo-viridia, supra glabra, subtus vix pallidiora, 

 initio praesertim ad nervos sparsissime strigosa, demum glabra, nervis 

 utrinsecus 4-6 supra ut costa impressis subtus elevatis, venulis incon- 

 spicuis; petioli canaliculati, circiter 1 cm. longi, initio sparse strigosi, 

 demum glabri. Paniculae axillares, subsessiles, ramosae, patulae, 

 multiflorae, 1.5-2 cm. longae et 1.5-2.5 cm. diam.; rhachis ut pedicelli 

 bracteae, ovaria dense fulvo-strigosa; bracteae et bracteolae minutae 

 lanceolatae, acutae; flores parvi, albi, paullo ultra 5 mm. diam., sessiles 

 V. subsessiles v. inferiores breviter pedicellati; calycis lobi rotundati v. 

 late ovati, ciliolati, glabri v. basin versus sparse strigosi tubo dense 

 strigoso breviores, 1 mm. longi; corolla 3 mm. longa lobis ovalibus 

 apice saepe eroso-denticulatis; stamina pentadelpha, circiter 50, 

 corollae subaequilonga; stylus glaber; ovarium 3-loculare. Fructus 

 desideratur. 



Western Szech'uan: Wa-shan, woods, alt. 1300-1600 m., June 

 1908 (No. 2550). 



This species seems to be most closely related to S. adenophylla Wallich, which 

 is easily distinguished by the narrower and longer leaves, by the lanceolate acute 

 calyx-lobes, the glabrous ovary and by the 25 stamens. It is very different from 

 any of the Chinese species known to me. 



Symplocos botryantha Franchet in Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, s6t. 2, 

 X. 60 {PL David. II. 98) (1888). — Brand in Engler, Pflanzenr. 

 IV.-242, 60 (1901). 



Western Hupeh: Changlo Hsien, woods, alt. 600-1000 m.. May 

 1907 (No. 2549; bush 2-3 m., flowers white); without precise locality, 

 April 1901 (Veitch Exped. No. 1802), A. Henry (No. 5357). Eastern 

 Szech'uan: Wu-shan Hsien, A. Henry (No. 5272*^). Western 

 Szech'uan : Mt. Omei, alt. 1300 m., E. Faber (No. 87). Fokien: 

 Dunn's Exped., April to June, 1905 (Hongkong Herb. No. 2903). 



Symplocos anomala Brand in Bot. Jahrh. XXIX. 529 (1900); in 

 Engler, Pflanzenr. IV.-242, 67 (1901). 

 Western Szech'uan: Omei Hsien, thickets, alt. 1000-1500 m., 



