256 47. ROSACEA : POMEJC. 



4. Pyrus betulaefolia, Bunge, Fnum. PI. Chin. Bor. p. 27 ; 

 Walp. Rep. ii. p. 53 ; Maxim, in Mel. Biol. ix. p. 169 ; Rev. 

 Sort. 1879, p. 318, figg. 68, 69; Bebeaux, Fl. TcJief. p. 61; 

 Becne. Jard. Fruit, du Mus. i. t. 20. 



Chihli : near Peking (Bunge I B 'ret Schneider I); Shantung 

 (ex Bebeaux) ; Kiangsi : Kiukiang (Maries ! Shearer !) ; Hu- 

 peh : Ichang and immediate neighbourhood (A. Henry !). Mus. 

 Brit. ; Herb. Kew. 



Maximowicz refers the large-fruited P. Simonii, Carr., to 

 this ; but if Pyrus sinensis be retained as an independent 

 species, it should rather be referred to that. 



5. Pyrus Calleryana, Becne. Jard. Fruit, du Mus. i. in textu ad 

 P. Jacquemontiana ; Maxim, in Mel. Biol. ix. p. 169, et in Bull. 

 Soc. Nat. Mosc. 1879, p. 18 ; Hance in Journ. Bot. 1883, p. 298 ; 

 Franchet, PI. Bavid. p. 120. 



Shantung : Chefoo (Hancock ex Maximoivicz) ; Kiangsi 

 Kiukiang (Bavid ex Franchet) ; Fokien : Amoy (Hance, 1503 !) 

 Kwangtung : on the Lienchau river (Graves'.). Mus. Brit. 

 Herb. Kew. 



This species is retained as limited by Maximowicz, though 

 from a superficial comparison of specimens we are quite unable 

 to distinguish it from P. betularfolia. Hance referred his Amoy 

 specimens to P. variolosa, Wall. (P. Pashia, Ham.), which cer- 

 tainly is also very closely allied. 



6. Pyros cathayensis, Hemsl. 



Cydonia sinensis, Thouin in Ann. Mus. xix. p. 145, tt. 8 & 9; DC. 

 Prodr. ii. p. 638 ; Bot . Reg. t. 905 (chinensis) ; Maxim, in Mil. Biol. ix. 

 p. 164. 



Pyrus sinensis, Poiret in Lam. Encycl. Suppl. iv. p. 452, non Lindl. 



Kiangsi : Kiukiang, cult. (Shearer !) ; Hufeh : Ichang, cult.? 

 (A. Henry !). Herb. Kew. 



Loureiro (Fl. Cochinch. p. 322) and Debeaux (Fl. Tchef. p. 61, 

 et Fl. Tients. p. 20) have confounded this with the common 

 Quince, Pyrus Cydonia. 



Dr. Henry refers to his specimen as the " Chinese Quince," but 

 he does not state whether it was wild or cultivated. His spe- 

 cimens and the plant cultivated at Kew have much narrower, less 

 hairy leaves than that originally described and cultivated in 

 Europe. 



