1917] SCHNEIDER—NEW CHINESE PLANTS 139 
The name is given in honor of Professor BAyLEY BA.rour, the distin- 
guished Scotch botanist and director of the Royal Botanic Garden at Edin- 
burgh, which contains an extremely rich collection of living woody and 
herbaceous plants from China, especially from northwestern Yunnan. 
119° Salix (sect. PstLostiGMATAE Schn.) Guebriantiana, n. sp. 
(fig. C, 1-5).—Frutex erectus, satis elongato-ramosus, ad 6 m. altus; 
ramuli novelli initio parce sericei, annotini biennesque glabri, 
rubro-fusci vel sordide brunnei; gemmae flavo-rubrae, oblongae, 
subglabrae. Folia juvenilia ovato-oblonga vel late lanceolata, apice 
sensim subacuminata, basi cuneata vel rotundata, 3-5 cm. longa et 
I-1.5 cm. lata, superne initio sericea vel sericeo-villosa, cito sub- 
glabra, intense viridia, subtus plus minusve dense sericeo-villosa, 
dein glabrescentia, discoloria, pruinosa, nervis lateralibus utrinsecus 
circ. 12 angulo acuto a costa divergentibus, margine integerrima 
vel saepissime versus apicem dense minute glanduloso-serrata, 
matura ignota; petioli vix 5 mm. longi, laxe sericei; stipulae dis- 
tinctae non visae. Amenta (mascula tantum visa) coetanea, 
anguste cylindrica, nondum satis evoluta ad 6.5 cm. longa et vix 
7 mm. crassa, pedunculo ad 1 cm. longo folia 3-4 normalibus 
minora sed similia gerente excluso, axi laxe villosa; bracteae 
_ concolores pallidae. ves pe ebais brunnescentes, obovato- — 
tae, basi dorso. leviter saccatae, glabrae, filamentis ubduplo vel = 
fere 3plo breviores, quam glandula dorsalis subduplo 0 longiores; ee 
filamenta glabra, juvenilia satis crassa; antherae flavae, ovato- = 
globosae; glandulae 2, separatae, ventralis. lata, subquadrato- oe 
rotundata vel rectangularis et apice truncata, dorsalis illae vix vel ee 
- paulo brevior sed angustior, oblonga, apice truncata. | 
| ter urbem Yen-yiian Hsien et viculum Hun-ka, i 
hneids Soe? _. Acca ee do 
