Sarcococca orientalis C.Y.Wu

This recently named species is not disposed of in Mr Sealy’s monograph and it is not clear from the short Latin diagnosis how it is supposed to differ from S. hookeriana var. dignyna. It was described from a single specimen collected in Kiangsi. Plants under this name now in cultivation at Wakehurst Place, Sussex, and in a few other collections, are from seeds given to Roy Lancaster in 1980 by the Shanghai Botanic Garden and are believed to have been collected in Chekiang province. These have not yet been verified.