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SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



34523 to 34601— Continued. 



34564. EvoDiA velutina Rehder and Wilson. 



"(Wilson No. 994.) Tree, 13 meters tall; woods, 1,600 meters altitude; west 

 of and near Wenchwan Hsien, western Szechwan." 



34565. JuGLANS sp. Walnut. 

 "(Wilson No. 390.) (Cf. /. regia.) Tree, 10 to 15 meters tall; cultivated; 



Fang Hsien; 1,500 to 2,000 meters altitude. A good-flavored walnut." 



34566. CoRNus sp. 



"(Wilson No. 1017.) Tree, 10 to 16 meters altitude; fruit blue-black; wood- 

 lands, 1,200 to 1.500 meters altitude; west of and near Wenchwan Hsien, west- 

 em Szechwan." 



34567. Pyhus sp. 



"(Wilson No. 395.) Tree, 6 meters tall; flowers white; fruit small, globose, 

 flattened; woodlands and open country, 600 to 1,300 meters altitude- north and 

 south of Ichang; common." 



34668. EuPTELEA PLEiosPERMA Hook. and Thoms. 

 {E. davidiana Baill.) 

 "(Wilson No. 588.) Hsingshan Hsing." 



"An extremely interesting tree belonging to the Trochodendracese, widely 

 distributed in central and western China, where specimens have been obtained 

 by many travelers, the first by Pere David, after whom it is named. The plant 

 forms a shrub or small tree 10 to 20 feet in height with neat nearly orbicular 

 leaves terminated by a thick mucroUke apex, and colors well in autumn; the 

 wood resembles that of the hazel. The species is very variable, there being a 

 great many different forms." ( Veitch, Hortus Veitchii.) 



34569. Celtis sp. 



"(Wilson No. 593.) Tree, 6 meters tall, friiit black; woods, Fang Hsien; 

 1,300 meters altitude." 



34570. LoNiCERA snnLis delavayi (Franch.) Rehder. 



"From western China. It seems more natural to treat L. delavayi only as a 

 glabrous or glabrescent variety of L. sirnilis.^' 



34571. Petjnus cyclamesta Koehne. 



"From Changyang Hsien, western Hupeh, in woodlands, at an altitude of 

 100 to 1,300 meters, April and June, 1907. A tree from 5 to 8 meters in height 

 bearing red fruit, the calyxes resembling the corollas of the cyclamen in shape." 



34573. Phellodexdron sachaunense Sargent. 



"(Wilson No. 4217.) Small tree, 6 to 10 meters taU; woodlands, 1,600 to 

 2,000 meters altitude: Mupin, western Szechwan." 



34574. Prtjntts texuitlora Koehne. 



"(Wilson No. 13.) From Hsingshan Hsien, western Hupeh, in woods, at an 

 altitude of 1,300 to 1,600 meters, ^lay and June, 1907. This species is very 

 similar to P. sargentii Rehder, but differs in the smaller and apparently paler 

 and thinner leaves, the frequent presence of pubescence on the petiole, in the 

 peduncle (4 to 20 millimeters long), the occasional pubescence of the pedicels, 

 the very slender cupule (6.5 to 10 millimeters long, in P. sargentii 5.5 to 7 milli- 

 meters long) and the smaller and broader stone (6 to 8 millimeters long, in P. 

 sargentii 9 to 10 millimeters long); also xery similar to P. conradinae.'' 



