Takeda— Old World Species of the Genus Mahonia. 233 



chang-kai valley, north of Tengyueh, 6000-7000 ft. Spinous- 

 leaved shrub of 4-8 ft. Flowers bright-orange-yellow, fragrant 

 Open shady situations on the margin of forests" (Forrest! 



Obs —A well characterised species, having thick elliptical 

 leaflets with small spinous serration on the margin, very long 

 bracts, and large outer sepals. This species may have some 

 relationship with M. polyodonta, as Schneider considers, but 

 is a stouter plant in every respect. 



n. M.Fortunei,(Lindl.) Fedde. (Plate XXIV andPlate XXXVI, 

 figs. 163-167.) 



M. Fortune*, Fedde in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. xxxi, p. 130, pro 

 parte, fig. 3, E, 1901 ; Schn. in Sargent, PI. Wils. 1. p. 380. 

 pro parte, 1913. 



B. Fortunei, Lindl. in Journ. Hort. Soc. 1, pp. 231, 300, c. ic, 

 xvlogr. 1846 ; Forbes et Hemsl. Ind. Fl. Sin. 1, p. 3*. 1886. 



Af . trifurca, Hort. ex Loudon, Encycl. PI. Suppl. h, p. I34&> 

 1855 ; Fedde, I.e. p. 125, fig. 4, B. ... 



B. trifurca, Fort, in Paxt. and Lind. Fl. Gard. 111, p. 57- 



fig -| 5 V^ 3 var. tnfurca, Rehd. m Mitteil. d. Deutsch. 

 Dendrolog. Gesellsch. 1912, p. 184. 



B. nipalensis, Hance in Journ. Bot. n.s. xi, p. 2, 188., 



n6C Hab.-China: (Fortune! Nos. 32 (1846), 42 (1852). 43 ( no 

 date). Szechwan: Chung-king (Mesny ! 1880, in Hb. Hance, 

 No 2287) ; Mt. Omei and Min River (Faber ! No. 469) ; Mt. 

 Omei (Hugh ! 1899) ; Yachou Fu, woodlands, 500-800 met. 

 (Wilson! No. 2882). . 



Obs —This species is variable as regards the shape and size 

 of leaflets. In the more normal specimens the leaflets are 

 gradually tapering towards the base. Sometimes the 



leaflets are much broader (o 



furnished witli 



„ 3C teeth (Faber, No. 469).* The terminal leaflet is 

 usually longly cuneate at the base, but occasionally a leaflet 

 with roundish base is met with (Fortune, No. 42)- Where very 

 few teeth are present in a broad leaflet, we get the so-called 

 " trifurca," which is only an extreme form (e.g. the terminal leaflet 

 in Fortune, No. 42). There seems however to be no necessity 

 to keep up this name, since there are all gradations. The 

 terminal leaflet is as a rule " sessile," but in one case the writer 

 has seen a terminal leaflet stalked (Mesny m Hance, No. 2287) 

 This is probably due to the fact that the terminal one is fused 



