47. BOSACE.2B : PEUNEJE. 223 



CniHLi (ex Bunge ; David ex Franchet), mountains west of 

 Peking (Bretschneider, in hb. Forbes !) ; Shantung (ex Fortune 

 et Franchet). 



A fruiting specimen of a species of Prunus collected by 

 Oldham in Kuper Harbour, Corean Archipelago, we have not 

 been able to identify. It has remarkably slender branchlets and 

 shortly petiolate, ovate, long-acuminate leaves; and Oldham 

 notes that it has a red succulent fruit. 



1. Pygeum latifolium, Mia. Fl. Ind. Bat. i. p. 361 ; Benth. 

 Fl. Hongk. p. 104. 



Germaria latifolia, Presl, Epimel. Bot. p. 221. 



Hongkong (Wrightl). 



Malay Archipelago and Philippine Islands. 



47. ROSACEA: Spiejeeje. 



1. Spiraea angustiloba, Turcz. in Fisch. et Meg. Ind. Sem. Hort. 

 Petrop. viii. p. 71 ; Ledeb. Fl. Boss. ii. p. 17 ; Franchet, PI. David. 

 p. 108. 



Filipendula angustiloba, Maxim, in Act. Hort. Petrop. vi. p. 250. 

 Chihli : Jehol {David, 1903, ex Franchet). 

 Dahuria to Mandshuria. 



2. Spiraea Aruncus, Linn. Sp. PI. ed. 1, p. 490; Ledeb. Fl. 

 Boss. ii. p. 16; Hook./. Fl. Brit. Ind. ii. p. 323. 



Aruncus Sylvester, Kostel. Ind. Praa. p. 15, ex Maxim, in Act. Hort. 

 Petrop. vi. p. 169 (varietates). 



Shingking : between Moukden and the Taloo river (James !) ; 

 Kansuh (Piasezki ex Maximowicz). Herb. Kew. 



Europe, North Asia to Japan, and North America. 



3. Spiraea betulaefolia, Pall. Fl. Boss. i. p. 33, t. 16 ; Maxim, 

 in Act. Hort. Petrop. vi. p. 103 ; Franchet, PI. David, p. 108 ; 

 Debeaux, Fl. Tchef. p. 53. 



Spiraea charatedryfolia, Cham, et Schl. in Linneea, ii. p. 2, non Linn. 



Chihli: Jehol (David, 1818!); Shantung: Chefoo (hb. 

 Forbes I). Herb. Kew. 



Siberia, Mandshuria, Japan, and widely spread in North 

 America. 



4. Spiraea Blumei, G. Don, Gen. Sgst. ii. p. 518 ; Maxim, in 

 Act. Sort. Petrop. vi. p. 196 ; Morr. Belg. Hort. 1858, p. 131, 

 t. 37. fig. 2. 



