46. LEGTTMIN0S.2B : MIMOSE^!. 217 



Inga dimidiata, Hook et Am. Bot. Beech. Voy. p. 181. 



South China : without locality (Millett !) ; Hongkong (Ranee, 

 1177 ! Wright ! Urquhart ! Lamont !) ; Hainan (Swinhoe ! B. C. 

 Henry 1). Mus. Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 



Malay peninsula and archipelago. 



[Inga dulcis, Willd. {Rook, et Am. Bot. Beech. Voy. p. 181), 

 Pithecolobium dulce, Benth., is an American species, cultivated 

 and colonized in the Old "World ; but there is no specimen at 

 Kew or the British Museum from China.] 



2. Pithecolobium lucidum, Benth. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. 

 iii. p. 207 ; Fl. Hongk. p. 102, et in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxx. p. 577. 



Inga bigemina, Hook, et Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. p. 182, non Willd. 



Albizzia Championi, Benth. in Hook. Kew Journ. Bot. i\. p. 79. 



China : without locality (Beechey !) ; Fobmosa (Oldham, 197!) ; 

 Kwangtung : about ten miles north of Canton (B. C. Henry, 

 hb. Hance, 1195!); Hongkong ( Wilford ! Wright ! Ranee, 1195! 

 Champion !). Mus. Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 



47. KOSACE^: Pruned. 



1. Prunus (§Armeniaca) Armeniaca, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 1, 

 p. 474 ; Maxim, in Mel. Biol. xi. p. 673 ; Franchet, PI. David. 

 p. 104 ; Bretschn. Stud, fy Vol. Chin. Works on Bot. p. 10 ; DC. 

 Orig. PI Cult. p. 173. 



Armeniaca vulgaris, Lam. Encycl. i. p. 2 ; DC. Prodr. ii. p. 532. 



Chihli ; mountains near Peking (Bretschneider ) ; Suing- 

 king : Fungwangshan (Boss I). Herb. Kew. 



The Apricot is regarded as indigenous in Dahuria, Mongolia, 

 Mandshuria, and Northern China. 



In the Kew Herbarium is a specimen of an Armeniaca from 

 the Soul Mountains, Corea, collected by Carles, which has ex- 

 actly the foliage of Prunus sibirica, Linn, (regarded by Maxi- 

 mowicz as a variety of P. Armeniaca) ; but the distinctly pedun- 

 culate flowers are in threes, the bracts are early deciduous, and 

 the large calyx is coloured. 



[Loureiro (Fl. Cochinch. p. 316) states that the Almond 

 (Prunus Amygdalus, BailL, Amygdalus communis, L.) is both wild 

 and cultivated in China ; and Bunge says that it is commonly 

 cultivated in North China; but recent botanists have not seen it 



