OLEACEAE.i 



Determined by Alfred Rehder, 



LIGUSTRUM L. 



Ligustrum acutissimum Koehne in Festschrift Siehzig. Gehurtst. 

 Ascherson, 192, fig. 1 a (1904); in Fedde, Rep. Spec. Nov. I. 8, fig. 

 1 a (1905). —Schneider, III. Handb. Lauhholzk. II. 806, fig. 505 m-n2 

 (1911). 



Ligustrum Ibota Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 21 (non Siebold) (1889), 

 quoad specimina Hupehensia. — Dials in Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. 532 (1900). 



Western Hupeh: north and south of Ichang, thickets, alt. 600- 

 1200 m., June, July and September, 1907 (No. 315; bush about 2 m. 

 tall, flowers white, fruit black) ; Hsing-shan Hsien, thickets, alt. 300- 

 1600 m., June and November 1907 (No. 315^; bush 2-3 m. tall, flowers 

 white) ; Fang Hsien, thickets, side of streams, alt. 300-1000 m.. May 

 28, 1907 (No. 3503; bush 1-3 m. tall, flowers white); without precise 

 locality, June 1900 (Veitch Exped. No. 938), A. Henry (Nos. 5881, 

 6583, 7158, 7447). Kiangsi : Kuling, thickets, common, alt. 1300 m.; 

 July 28, 29, 31, 1907 (Nos. 1633, 1638, 1640; bushes 1-2 m. tall); 

 same locality, alt. 1200 m., August 1, 1907 (No. 1593; bush 2 m. tall, 

 with wild insect white wax (peh-la) . 



This species seems to be as variable in its pubescence and in the shape of its 

 leaves as L. ibota Siebold to wliich it is closely related; Henry's No. 7158 and the 

 specimens from Kiangsi except No. 1633 have nearly glabrous leaves sometimes, 

 particularly on the flowering branches, obtuse and rather broad. On some fruiting 

 specimens as on Henry's No. 7447 and Wilson's No. 1633 the calyx and pedicels 

 ehow traces of pubescence. The glabrescent specimens from Kiangsi and No. 7158 

 from Hupeh which are all in immature fruit may belong to L. ibota, but differ 

 from that species in their more pointed leaves and in the generally narrower in- 

 florescence. 



Ligustrum expansum Rehder, n. sp. 



Frutex circiter 3-metralis (secundum cl. Wilson) ; ramuli hornotini 

 sparse pilosi v. fere glabri, teretes, annotini pallide flavo-cinerei spar- 

 sissime lenticellati. Folia membranacea, elliptico-oblonga v. lanceo- 

 lato-oblonga, utrinque sensim attenuata, apice saepius longe acuminata, 



1 See also vol. I. 297-302 and vol. II. 258-262. 

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