OLEACEAE. — CHIONANTHUS 611 



serrulate with from 25 to 30 teeth on each side, in its somewhat larger more coria- 

 ceous leaves sometimes entire or nearlj^ entire; No. 4079" differs in its impressed 

 veinlets. I have, however, little doubt that the flowering and the fruiting speci- 

 mens belong to the same species, particularly as the young plants raised from seed 

 of No. 4216 agree better with a branch of No. 4079 bearing spinosely serrate 

 leaves than with the parent plant. 



Osmanthus venosus Pampanini in Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. n. ser. 

 XVIII. 265, fig. 25 (1911). 



Western Hupeh: Ichang, cultivated, alt. 300-900 m., September 

 1907 (No. 2374*; tree 8-10 m. tall, flowers white, fragrant). 



Pampanini places this species in the section Siphosmanthus and his figure shows 

 a corolla with a rather tubular tube, while Wilson's No. 2374 has a distinctly cam- 

 panulate corolla with the tube 2.5-3 mm. and the lobes about 2 mm. long. This 

 agrees exactly with the measurements given by Pampanini for the flowers of his 

 0. venosus. I assume that in the drawing the shape of the corolla is somewhat ex- 

 aggerated, and as our plant agrees in all other points with Pampanini's description, 

 there is hardly any doubt that it is 0. venosjis. The branchlets, petioles and the 

 scales of the flower-buds are minutely puberulous as in 0. armatus Diels. A note 

 on the latter species which had not been collected during the Arnold Arboretum Ex- 

 pedition may be appended here. 



Osmanthus armatus Diels in Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. 532 (1900). — Wilson in Gard. 

 Chron. ser. 3, L. 113, fig. 54 (1911). — Bean in Kew Bull. Misc. Inform. 1913, 166. 



Western Hupeh : Ichang, on rocks in woods, September 1901 (Veitch Exped. 

 No. 2645; bush or small tree, 1-7 m. tall); same locality, A. Henry (No. 6730); 

 Natich'uan, A. von Rosthorn (No. 2040, in Herb. Christiania). 



Like those in other species of this genus the leaves vary from toothed to entire. 

 The entire leafed form may be distinguished from the preceding species to which 

 it is closely related by the short petioles and the rounded base of the leaves. 



CHIONANTHUS L. 



Chionanthus retusus Lindley & Paxton in Paxton's Flow. Gard. III. 

 85, fig. 273 (1853). — Walpers, An7i. V. 482 (1858). — Maximowicz in 

 Bull. Acad. Sci. St. Petersbourg, XXII. 259 (1876); in Mel. Biol. IX. 

 653 (1877).— Gard Chron. ser. 2, XXIII. 820, fig. 178 (1885).— 

 Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Sac. XXVI. 88 (1889). — Shirai in Tokyo Bot. 

 Mag. VIII. 98, t. 3 (1894). — Relider in Rhodora, VI. 19, fig. 3, 4 

 (1904). — Schneider, III. Handh. Laubholzk. 11. 793, fig. 497 t-y, 500 c 

 (1911). 



Linociera chinensis Fischer apud Maximowicz in MSm. Sav. Etr. Acad. Sci. St. 



Petersbourg, IX. 474 (Prim. Fl. Amur.) (nomen nudum) (1859). 

 Chionanthus chinensis Maximowicz in Bull. Acad. Sci. St. Petersbourg, XX. 



430 (1875); in Mil. Biol. IX. 393 (1875). 

 Chionanthus Duclouxii Hickel in Bull. Soc. Dendr. France, 1914, 72, fig. 



