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Schisandra grandiflora Hk. f. and Thorns., Fl. Brit. Ind. 

 1:44. 1872.— King in Ann. R. Bot. Gard. Calcutta 3:219, pi. 6g, 

 fig. A. 1892; Kadsura grandiflora Wall., Tent. Fl. Nepal. 10, pi. 14. 

 1824.— The typical S. grandiflora has large white or pinkish white 

 flowers about 1 in. or more in diameter, and the male flowers have 

 7-9 sepals. The anthers are elliptic or ovoid-elliptic, with lateral 

 or subextrorse cells, the filaments of the lower ones being of about 



By Finet and Gagnepain and 



same 



Rehder and Wilson, some forms from 



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fyS} Schisandra 



form a distinct variety that may 



grandifl 



— S. grandi- 



flora Finet and Gagnep. in Bull. Soc. Bot. France 52 : Mem 

 1905, pro parte; non Hk. f. and Th.; Contr. Fl. As. Or. 2:48. 1907, 

 pro parte; Rehder and Wilson in Sargent, PI. Wils. 1 : 412. 1913; 

 S. chinensis Diels in Not. R. Bot. Gard. Edinbgh. 7:398. 1913, non 

 Baillon — A typo praecipue recedit floribus minoribus vix ultra 

 2 cm. diametientibus roseis vel sanguineis antheris partim distinctius 

 extrorsis ovato-ellipticis vel fere ovato-subglobosis apice paullo 

 apiculatis vel interdum leviter emarginatis loculis subrectis vel 

 partim satis curvatis. 



Yunnan boreali-occidentalis: in vallibus ad latera orientalia montium 

 Tsang prope Tali-fu, alt. 2800-3200 m., Junio-Augusto 1906, G. Forrest (no. 

 4797) 5 in dumetis montium niveorum prope Lichiang-fu infra glaciem mag- 



3500 



fructus maturi 



rubri); eodem loco, Octobri 1914, Schneider (no. 3303); in silvis umbrosis ad 

 angustias montium inter Sung-queh et Teng-chuan,alt. circ. 3200 m., 29 Sept. 

 1914, C. Schneider (no. 2686); Szechuan australis: in regione Yen Yuan 



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17 Maji 1914, C. Schneider (no. 1276; frutex scandens, flores intense rubri); in 

 silvis supra Hua-li ad flum. Yalung, ad angustias montium boream versus, 

 alt arc. 3800 m., 28 Maji 1914, C. Schneider (no. 3936; typus in Herb. 

 Schneider; frutex scandens, flores rubri). 



Hupeh 



The color of the flowers of the plants collected by myself is almost blood 

 red, while Forrest says "flowers crimson" and Wilson "flowers flesh pink" 

 or "deep fleshy pink." They are smaller than those of typical 5. grandiflora, 

 and the shape of the anthers seems rather variable, the cells being often almost 

 entirely extrorse and sometimes distinctly curved. In the male flowers I 

 found mostly 6 sepals, but apparently there are about 9, the outermost being 



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