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Euonymus sp. (F 307) is an arborescent species, with thin, narrow 
foliage and big scarlet stars. It is probably, like the next, in 
relation to F 289. 
Euonymus sp. (F 308) creeps and straggles in the J6-ni hedgerows, 
and is otherwise closely related to F 289, with big, 5-rayed 
stars of crimson. 
Euonymus sp. (F 390) has the habit of F 297, but its fruits, in 
scarlet stars, are black. 
Euonymus sp. (F 391) is a large bush, after the style of F 297, 
but the brilliant scarlet fruit-stars have only four rays. 
Euonymus sp. (F 392) is a stiff, leafy shrub, or a round-headed 
graceful tree, so heavily laden with clusters of pink coral waxy 
fruit, filled with vermilion seed, as to look like a Cherry in full 
bloom. It occurs in subalpine coppice all down the border, 
and should either be grown on quickly into a tree or kept very 
hard cut back into a gnarled bush, so that its fruit may have its 
full effect ; as a mere shrub, the shoots are stiff and leafy, and 
leave the coral-clusters rather in the lurch. 
Euonymus sp. (F 447) is another species with black seeds. Perhaps 
the same as F 390. It is not possible to promise which seeds 
of Euonymus will be distributed, as no one can tell beforehand 
in what condition the short-lived and very precarious germs 
will come to hand. 
Exochorda racemosa var. Wilsonii (F 95) . — This was only sighted on a 
hot and difficult range of cliffs above Siku, where, amid Paeonies, 
it formed slight bushes of 3-4 feet, brilliant with terminal flights 
of snowy flowers at the end of May. It is smaller and less dazzling 
than F 6, but this may be owing to the specially torrid aspect 
to which it is here confined on a dry hill. 
Farreria pretiosa (F 19a) (novum genus Balf. fil. et W. W. Sm.) 
is a singularly lovely little ground Daphne, with clusters of 
bright citron-yellow flowers, twice met with on the high bare loess 
downs of South Kansu, April 18, April 20. Unfortunately seed 
could not be got, and roots were unnegotiable. There is another 
species, F 71, brilliantly golden, but of quite inferior merit, which 
abounds in rocks and dry coarse alpine turf on the Siku-Satanee 
ranges, between 7,500 and 9,000 feet ; this also appears so shy in 
seed that none could be found, though occasionally, as on burnt- 
out ribs of rock, its evidence was plain, in small, compact, 
young plants. 
Filix sp. (F 446). — This most lovely fern decorates the woodland 
above Satanee, and strays out, above Da-hai-go, into the open 
alpine turf, where it forms dense colonies many yards across, 
with fronds as fine as Trichomanes radicans, yet hard and hardy 
and wiry as Asplenium Ruta-muraria. They are about 8-12 
inches high, and in autumn, dying, fade to a clear amber. One 
plant was seen far above Siku, near Ban-S'an, but its greatest 
point of luxuriance was in the lower, lighter woodland of the 
