328 WILSON EXPEDITION TO CHINA 



INDIA. Manipur: 1881-82, G. Watts (No. 6538). East Bengal: W. 

 Griffith <No. 271 in part). Assam: Khasia Hills, alt. 1600 m.. Hooker f. & 

 Thomson. 



This is the common Pittosporum of China and is frequent in woods, thickets 

 and shady places throughout the warmer parts from the sea-coast to the extreme 

 west. The leaves vary much in size and in shape from obovate and obovate- 

 oblong to oblanceolate-oblong and occasionally lanceolate-oblong. The pedicels 

 are glabrous or furnished with few to many crisped and glandular hairs. The 

 capsule is large and relatively thick and woody and is usually three-valved, but 

 may vary from 2 to 4 on the same branch. The flowers vary in color from pale to 

 deep yellow and are sweetly scented. The characters on which Pampanini bases 

 his var. chinense are inconstant. 



Pittosporum glabratum, var. neriifolium Rehder & Wilson n. var. 



A typo recedit foliis anguste oblongo-lanceolatis v. anguste lanceo- 

 latis 10-15 cm. longis et 1-2 cm. latis, interdum ad 20 cm. longis et 

 2.6 cm. latis. 



Western Hupeh: Patung Hsien, cliffs, alt. 600-1000 m., May, 

 November 1907 (No. 3181, type; bush 1.5-2 m. high, flowers yellow); 

 without locality, May 1900 (Veitch Exped. No. 361); without local- 

 ity, A. Henry (Nos. 5359, 5422). Western Szech'uan: without 

 locality, May 1904 (Veitch Exped. Nos. 3231, 3231^); Mt. Omei, 

 1899, Hugh Scallan. Yunnan : Mentgsze, forests, alt. 1800-2300 m., 

 A. Henry (Nos. lOlOl'', 10545). Hongkong: Little Hongkong, 

 woods, April 12, 1909, W. J. Tutcher (ex Herb. Hongkong No. 9501). 



INDIA. Assam: Khasia Hills, alt. 1600m., Hooker f. & T. Thomson. East 

 Bengal, W. Griffith (No. 271 pro parte). 



In its typical form with its long and narrow oblong-lanceolate leaves, this plant 

 looks sufficiently distinct to be regarded as a species, but the numbers Veitch 

 Exped. 361, 3231, 323P; Henry Nos. 5359, 10191^, and the Mt. Omei specimen 

 collected by Father Hugh Scallan are more or less intermediate, and we do not 

 think that it is entitled to rank higher than a variety. Its distribution is similar 

 to that of the type with which it grows. 



Pittosponun truncatum E. Pritzel in Bot. Jahrh. XXIX. 378 (1900) . — 

 Pampanini in Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. n. ser. XVII. 286 (1910). 



Pittosporum pauciflorum, var. hrevicalyx OUver in Hooker^s Icon. XVI. t. 



1579 (1887). 

 Pittosporum hrevicalyx Gagnepain in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, LV. 545 (1908). 



Western Hupeh: Ichang, cliffs of glens and ravines, alt. 30- 

 600 m.. May 3, November 1907 (No. 650; bush 1-2.5 m., flowers 

 yellow); same locality, April and November 1900 (Veitch Exped. 

 No. 51); same locality A. Henry (No. 1524); without locality A. 

 Henry (Nos. 1081, 3414, 7306). Eastern Szech'uan: Wushan 

 Hsien, A. Henry (No. 5513 in Herb. Gray); Nanch'uan, A. von Ros- 

 thorn (No. 2071, co-type). 



