500 197. CUPULIFERE: BETULEE. 
Alnus maritima, var. arguta, Regel in DC. Prod. xvi. 2, p. 186; Herder 
in Act. Hort. Petrop. xii. p. 73. - 
Corra : Port Chusan (Wilford, 938!). Herb. Kew. 
/ Var. formosana, Burkill. Foliorum forma varietas varietati 
japonicæ similis. Amenta in ramis foliiferis coætanea producta. 
Alnus maritima, Henry in Trans. Asiatic Soc. Japan, xxi. Suppl. p. 90. 
Alnus maritima, var. japonica, Regel in DC. Prod. xvi. 2, p. 186, 
quoad plantam formosanam. 
Fonwosa: (Oldham, 508 !), Tamsui (A. Henry, 1389, 1394 D. 
Mus. Brit.; Herb. Kew. 
Japan, Mandshuria, and N. America. D. 
The Chinese of Formosa name it ^Chik-ko." Regel’s varieties 
japonica and arguta can hardly be kept apart; and the recogni- 
tion of the Formosan form differing from that of Japan 1n its 
time of flowering speaks for the union of the varieties of the Old 
and New Worlds into one species. 
3. Alnus nepalensis, D. Don, Prod. Fl. Nep. p. 58; Regel, 
Monogr. Bet. p. 88, t. 16. ff. 4-6, 13, 40-43, et in DC. Prod. 
xvi. 2, p. 181; Kurz in Journ. Bot. 1873, p. 193; Hook. f. FL 
Brit. Ind. v. p. 600; Franchet in Journ. de Bot. 1899, p. 208. 
Yunnan: Holka and Poneline (Anderson !), Mengize 
(Hancock, 426! A. Henry, 9223!), wood of Talongtan above 
Tapintze, and brooks at Taouangmiao between Houangkiapin and 
Tali at 6000 feet (Deluvay, 538, 539, 3564, 4188, 4541 !). Herb. 
Kew; Mus. Paris. 
[Alnus setchuanensis, David (A. sinensis, David), ex Bretschn. 
Hist. Eur. Bot. Dise. p. 844, may be A. viridis. It was obtained 
in Shensi and Szechuen.] 
[Alnus sinensis, Fauvel in Mém. Soc. Sc. Nat. Cherbourg, 
xxiii. p. 200, is a tree cultivated at Ningpo, Chekiang, unknown 
to me.] 
4. Alnus viridis, DC. FI. Fr. iii. p. 304. 
Var. julacea, Franchet, Pl. David. i. p. 281; Herder in Acta 
Hort. Petrop. xii. p. 69; Bretschn. Hist. Eur. Bot. Disc. p. 844 
Alnus crispa, C. Koch, Dendrologie, ii. 2, p. 626. 
SBENsI : Central Shensi (David ex Franchet). 
Europe, Siberia, J apau, and N. America. 
A plant from Corea (Carles) at Kew may possibly belong to 
this species. 
