5 4 
Lit 
280 PLANTAE CHINENSES FORRESTIANAE. 
ovata, obtusa, striolata. Styli 2 subsessiles ad stigmata sub- 
reniformia fere reducta. 
‘ Plant of g-16 inches. Flowers greenish-yellow. Dry pasture- 
land on the eastern flank of the Tali Range. Lat. 25° 40’ N. 
Alt. 810,000 ft. Flow. June-August 1906.” G. Forrest. 
No. 4638. 
From specimens seen in the Paris and London herbaria, this 
species seems to be fairly widely distributed in Yunnan. 
5 Galium modestum, Diels. Sp. nov. 
eS 
Caules graciles, debiles, ramosi 5-15 cm. longi. Folia 3-5 na 
sessilia, anguste oblanceolata, praeter costam subtus parce 
scabridulam glabra, 3-5 mm. longa. Cymae ad apices caulis 
atque ramulorum terminales triflorae. Flores pedicellati, pedicelli 
_ deflorati conspicue elongati strictiusculi. Petala ovata obtusius- 
cula tenere 3-nervia alba striolata 1-1°5 mm. longa. Styli 
2 subinaequales. 
‘Plant of 2-6 inches. Flowers white. Dry pine forests 
on the Namti-Shweli divide. Lat. 25° N. Alt. 7-8000 
ft. March 1906. W. Yunnan.” G. Forrest. No. 4978. 
Very similar to G. trifidum, Linn., but the corolla is larger, the 
petals three-nerved, and the styles unequal. 
RUTACEAE. 
a 
Xanthoxylum usitatum, Diels. Sp. nov. 
Frutex aculeatus 1°8-3 m.altus. Rami nigri. Folia herbacea, 
ad rhachin nervosque minute aculeolata, glabra, 3-5-juga, 3-4°5 
cm. longa, 2-2°5 cm. lata; rhachis haud alata. Foliola arcte 
sese tegentia, inferiora minora, subovata, obsolete crenata, ad 
crenaturas glandula ampla praedita, majora 1-1°5 cm. longa, 
06-09 cm. lata. Flores 2: Cymulae pedunculatae, 3-florae, 
fasciculatae, o°8-1'5 cm. longae, ad rhachin minute puberulae. 
Pedicelli 2-3 mm. longi. Tepala lanceolata, acuminata, 2°5 mm. 
longa, o’8 mm. lata. Gynophorum 1-1'5 mm. longum. Ovarium 
I mm. longum, styli r-1'5 mm. longi. 
‘‘ Spinous spreading shrub of 6-10 ft. Fruit a red greasy 
capsule 1 x 14 lines, containing one or two seeds. Bitter and 
biting, but aromatic, and used as a condiment by the Chinese. 
Dry, open, stony situations in side valleys on the eastern flank of 
the Lichiang Range. Lat. 27° 12’ N. Alt. g—11,000 ft. May 
1906.” G. Forrest. No. 2103. 
Allied to X. piperttum, DC., but the leaflets are fewer in 
number, not so conspicuously serrate. Another undescribed 
species of the same group is Wilson, No. 3310. 
