APOCYNACEAE. — TRACHELOSPERMUM 335 



without locality, A. Henry^s Collector. Hongkong: top of Ridge, 

 May 9, 1859, Colonel Urquhart (1861 ex Herb. Kew; forma incerta). 



The true T. jasminoides is a Chinese plant and is distinct from the Japanese T. 

 divaricatum K. Schumann, with which it has been united by previous authors. 

 The latter may be distinguished at once even from glabrous forms of T. jasminoides 

 by the exserted stamens and by the longer-pointed fiower-buds. Most of the cul- 

 tivated plants of T. jasminoides and apparently also Lindley's type are much more 

 glabrous than the wild forms mentioned above, but there is in the herbarium of 

 the Arnold Arboretum a specimen from the Villa Thuret at Antibes, France, which 

 shows the same pubescence on the inflorescence, the sepals and on the under sur- 

 faces of the leaves that we find in the Chinese specimens. Even the apparently 

 wholly glabrous cultivated plants are more or less sparsely hairy on the under 

 surface of the leaves, but the mouth of the corolla is mostly without any hairs. 

 The stamens are distinctly included, and the sepals are spreading or reflexed and 

 comparatively longer than those of T. cathayanum. The pubescence of the branch- 

 lets is variable and we find in almost every species quite glabrous and rather 

 pubescent forms. See also under T. divaricatum Kanitz p. 337. 



Trachelospermum axillare Hooker f., Fl. Brit. Ind. III. 668 (1882), 

 ut videtur tantum pro parte. — Diels in Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. 540 

 (1900). — Brandis, Ind. Trees, 464 (1906). — Leveill^, Fl. Kouy- 

 Tcheou, 31 (1914), fide Leveille. 



Melodinus Chaffanjoni Leveill6 in Fedde, Rep. Spec. Nov. II. 114 (1906), fide 



LeveUle. 

 Periploca astacus Leveille, Fl. Kouy-Tcheou, 43 (1914), secund. specim. ori- 



ginale. 



Western Szech'uan: Mupin, thickets, alt. 900-1300 m., June 

 1908 (No. 1939; climber, 2.5 m. tall, flowers orange); Mt. Omei, July 

 1904 (Veitch Exped. No. 5073); without precise locality, July 1904 

 (Veitch Exped. 4107; climber, flowers orange). Western Hupeh: 

 Hsing-shan Hsien, side of streams, alt. 900 m., July 1907 (No. 1940; 

 scandent shrub, 2.5 m., flowers reddish); same locality, June 1901 

 (Veitch Exped. No. 856; climber, flowers orange); without precise 

 locality, A. Henry (No. 3618). Fokien: Dunn's Exped., April to 

 June 1905 (Hongkong Herb. No. 2918). Yunnan : Mengtsze, moun- 

 tains to southwest, alt. 1900 m., A. Henry (No. 9854; large climber; 

 with ripe fruits); same locality, alt. 1600 m., A. Henry (No. 9854''; 

 large climber, yellow flowers) ; same locality, mountains to southeast, 

 alt. 1600 m., A. Henry (No. 9854''; large climber) ; Szemao, mountains 

 to east, alt. 1600 m., A. Henry (No. 12050; reddish flowers); same 

 locality, mountains to northwest, alt. 1600 m., A. Henry (No. 13115; 

 climber, red flowers). 



