OLEACEAE. — LIGUSTRUM 607 



May and December 1907 (No. 754'', in part; bush 3-4 m. tall) ; Hsing- 

 shan Hsien, thickets, side of streams, alt. 1000-1200 m., June and 

 November 1907 (No. 599; bush 3-4 m. tall); Patung Hsien, thickets, 

 not common, alt. 1300 m.. May 1907 (No. 3497; bush 3 m. tall); same 

 locality, alt. 1000 m., December 1907 (No. 754% in part; bush 3-4 m. 

 tall); Nanto and mountains to northward, A. Henrij (Nos. 1922, 

 2683,3072,3190). Western Szech'uan : Mt. Omei, May, June, 

 July 1904 (Veitch Exped. Nos. 5015, 5017, 5017'^). 



This variety differs from the type chiefly in its nearly glabrous narrower acute 

 or acuminate leaves lustrous above and in the shorter and slighter i)ubescence of 

 the branchlets. From L. sinense, var. Stauntonu it is easily distinguished in its 

 typical form by the much longer and comparatively narrower pointed leaves. 

 There are, however, many intermediate forms, as Wilson's Nos. 599, 754", 3497 

 and Henry's 3072, which might be taken for large-leaved forms of var. Stauntonii. 

 The specimens nearest to the type are Henry's 1922 and Wilson's No. 5017" and 

 also his Nos. 5015 and 5017. 



Ligustrum myrianthum Diels in Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. 533 (1900). 



Western Hupeh: Hsing-shan Hsien, side of streams, alt. 1000- 

 1300 m.. May 27 and October 1907 (No. 471; bush 2-3 m. tall, flowers 

 white, fruit blue-black); without precise locality. May 1900 (Veitch 

 Exped. No. 459). Szech'uan: Nanch'uan, A. von Rosthorn (No. 

 2099). Hongkong: E. Faher; same locality, C. Ford; same local- 

 ity, 1853-56, C. Wright (No. 318, fruiting specimen). 



This peculiar Privet which differs from all species known to me in the inflores- 

 cences which spring directly from the axils of the leaves of the previous year without 

 leaves at their base, or are borne, if the subpersistent leaves have fallen, on per- 

 fectly leafless branches, is possibly only an abnormal form of L. sineyise Loureiro. 

 I can see no difference between von Rosthorn's and Wilson's specimens, except 

 that the flowers of the former are slightly smaller, although scarcely smaller than 

 those of Ford's Hongkong specimen, while in the shape of the inflorescence and 

 in the pubescence they are exactly the same; the leaves which are still partly re- 

 tained on Wilson's and on the Hongkong specimens agree very well with those of 

 L. sinense. Henry's specimens Nos. 3619 and 4171 enumerated under L. sinense 

 are distinctly intermediate in the character of their inflorescence; most of these 

 panicles have only small bract-like leaves in their lower part, some are entirely 

 leafless, while a few have nearly normal leaves below the inflorescence. 



Ligustrum Quihoui Carriere in Rev. Hort. 1869, 377. — Decaisne 

 in Fl des Serres, XXII. 6 (1877); in Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, s6t. 

 2, II. 35 (1879). — Dippel, Handb. Laubholzk. I. 124, fig. 73 (1889).— 

 W. D. in Gard. LXVI. 292, fig. (1904). — Schneider, III. Hatidb. 

 Laubholzk. II. 801, fig. 502 k-1 (1911). 



Ldgustrum brachystachyum Decaisne in N'oiiv. Arch, ^fus. Paris, s6t. 2, II. 34 

 (1879). — Franchet in Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, ser. 2, \T. 85 {PI. David. 

 I. 205) (1883). — Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 89 (1889). — Diels in 



