OLACACEAE. 



Determined by Camillo Schneider. 



SCHOEPFIA Schreb. 



Schoepfia jasminodora Siebold & Zuccarini in Ahh. Akad. Miinch. 

 IV. pt. 3, 135 {Fl. Jap. Fam. Nat. II. 11) (1846). — Hemsley in Jour. 

 Linn. Soc. XXVI. 114 (1886). — Diels in Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. 306 

 (1900); in Not. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh, Yll. 30, 92 (PL Chin. Forrest.) 

 (1912). 



Schoepfiopsis jasminodora Miers in Jour. Linn. Soc. XVII. 77 (1878). 



Western Hupeh: north and south of Ichang, thickets, alt. 100- 

 900 m., June 1907 (No. 58; small tree 4.5 m. tall, fruits orange); same 

 locality, May 1907 (No. 58^; bush or small tree, 1.8-6 m, tall, flowers 

 white, fragrant); Hsing-shan Hsien, alt. 700 m., May 10, 1907 (No. 

 SS^; erect bush 7 m. tall, flowers greenish yellow, fragrant); without 

 precise locality, June 1901 (Veitch Exped. No. 1929); without precise 

 locality, A. Henry (No. 5975). Szech'uan: without precise local- 

 ity, cliffs, alt. 1300 m., October 1904 (Veitch Exped. No. 4450; shrub 

 1.2-1.8 m. tall, fruits orange); Wushan Hsien, A. Henry (Nos. 5597, 

 5597^). Chekiang: vicinity of Ningpo, 1908, D. Macgregor; near 

 Hanchou, "Shi-bun-shan," June 26, 1915, F. N. Meyer (No. 1478; 

 shrub 1.5m, tall). Yunnan: open situations in pine forests on the 

 southern foothills of the Lichiang Range, alt. 2700-3000 m.. May 1906, 

 G. Forrest (No. 2054; shrub or tree 4.5-12 m. tall, flowers green, power- 

 fully fragrant, appearing before foliage is developed, fruit an ovoid 

 dark crimson drupe); same locality, August 1914, C. Schneider (No. 

 2173; fruits orange red); Mi-lg district, A. Henry (No. 10605; shrub 

 2.4 m. tall, flowers yellowish). 



This species is distinguished by the sessile or almost sessile flowers. Schoepfia 

 chinensis Gardner & Champion, of which I have been able to see but one speci- 

 men, is similar, but the flowers are almost twice as large and the leaves seem to 

 be narrower and longer than those of S. jasminodora. 



Here may be added the following species not collected during the Arnold Ar- 

 boretum Expeditions. 



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