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Sci. St. Petershourg, XXXI. 85 (1886); in Mel. Biol. XII. 519 (1886).— 

 Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 262 (1890). — Shirasawa, Icon. 

 Ess. For. Jap. II. t. 70, fig. 28-36 (1908). — Nash in Addisonia, I. 29, 

 t. 15 (1916). 



Clerodendron serotinum Carrifere in Rev. Hort. 1867, 351, fig. 



Western Hupeh: common around Ichang, alt. 40 m., July 1907 

 (No. 2225; bush 2-3 m., flowers white). Also in Korea and Japan. 

 Shantung: Chifu, cultivated, September 22, 1903; C. S. Sargent, 

 Lan-shan, August 1907, F. N. Meyer (No. 279). 



Clerodendron trichotomum, var. Fargesii Rehder, n. var. 



Clerodendron trichotomum Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 262 (pro parte, 

 non Thunberg) (1890), quoad plantam e Hupeh et Szech'uan. — Diels in 

 Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. 550 (non Thunberg) (1900). — PavoUni in Nuov. Giorn. 

 Bot. Ital. n. ser. XV. 432 (1908). — Pampanini in Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. 

 n. ser. XVII. 701 (1910). 



Clerodendron Fargesii Dode in Bull. Soc. Dendr. France, 1907, 207, figs. — 

 Pinelle in Rev. Hort. 1911, 522, fig. 206-207. 



Clerodendron trichotomum, var. Fargesii Hort. ex Bailey, Stand. Cycl. Hort. 

 II. 800 (pro synon.) (1914). 



Western Hupeh: north and south of Ichang, common in thickets, 

 alt. 1000-1200 m., July and September 1907 (No. 216; bush 2-4 m., 

 flowers white) ; without precise locality, July 1900 (Veitch Exped. No. 

 1489); " monte Cia-inen-ku presso Siang-yong," July 1904, C. Sil- 

 vestri (No. 1964); "catena di Ou-tan-scian," August to November 

 1909, C. Silvestri (No. 3158); without precise locality, A. Henry (Nos. 

 4520, 4646, 6422, 6422''). Western Szech'uan: Wa-shan, thickets, 

 alt. 1500-2000 m., July 1908 (No. 2223; tree 8 m. tall, girth 0.6 m., 

 flowers white) ; west and near Wen-ch'uan Hsien, thickets, alt. 2000- 

 2300 m., July and September 1908 (No. 1040; bush 2-4 m., flowers 

 white); near Tachien-lu, alt. 2000-2300 m., October 1908 (No. 1040^; 

 bush 2 m., flowers white). Northern Shensi: " Thui-kio-tsen," 

 September 1897, G. Giraldi; " Lao-y-san," September 6, 1897, G. Giraldi. 

 Yunnan: between Yungpating and Taowang, thickets, alt., 1800- 

 2300 m., July 2, 1914, C. Schneider (No. 1717); tree 6 m. tall, girth 

 0.3 m., flowers white). 



This variety differs from the type chiefly in its glabrous or glabrescent smaller 

 leaves from 6 to 12 cm. long and from 2 to 6 cm. broad, in its nearly glabrous 

 branches, glabrous or glabrescent inflorescence and in the narrower more acute or 

 acuminate greenish sepals, but all these characters are very variable and I am un- 

 able to find a constant morphological character to separate these two forms specifi- 

 cally. Wilson's No. 1040 has the leaves rather villose on the veins beneath, and 



