ROSACEAE. — ERIOBOTRYA 193 
An exceedingly common shrub in Hupeh and very variable. It is distinguished 
from the type by its usually much smaller leaves and nearly glabrous flowers, but 
some specimens before us have leaves nearly as large as those of the type and are 
only slightly less hairy; it seems questionable whether the form is entitled even 
to varietal rank. i 
Here may be added the description of a new variety from Yunnan of Stran- 
vaesia nussia Decaisne (S. glaucescens Lindley). 
Stranvaesia nussia, var. oblanceolata Rehder & Wilson, n. var. 
A typo recedit foliis longis petiolatis angustioribus et longioribus, plerumque 
oblanceolatis v. oblongo-oblanceolatis 8-15 em. longis et 2-4.5 cm. latis, inflorescentiis 
plerumque laxioribus glabris, calyce glabro rarius sparse floccoso-villosulo. 
Yunnan: forests around Szemao, alt. 1500-1600 m., A. Henry (Nos. 11615, 
11615 a, 11615 b, 11615 e, 11615 f). 
variety seéms to resemble in the shape of its leaves S. nussia, var. angusti- 
folia (Decaisne) Schneider, which we have not seen, but which we must assume has a 
villose eer, as Decaisne gives the narrower leaves as the only distinguishing 
cter, 
ERIOBOTRYA Lindl. 
Determined by Arren RemDeR and E. H. Wirsow. 
Eriobotrya japonica Lindley in Trans. Linn. Soc. XIII. 102 (1821). — 
Siebold & Zuccarini, Fl. Jap. I. 182, t. 97 (1835). 
Mespilus japonica Thunberg, Fl. Jap. 206 (1784). — Ker in Bot. Reg. V. t. 
365 (1819). 
Crataegus Bibas Loureiro, FI. Cochin. 319 (1790). 
Photinia japonica Franchet & Savatier, Fl. Jap. I. 142 (1875). 
Western Hupeh: north and south of Ichang, alt. 300-1000 m., 
April and November (No. 3000; tree 5-6 m. tall, flowers white, fra- 
grant, fruit orange); without locality, A. Henry (No. 5343). 
Very generally cultivated throughout Hupeh and Szech’uan, also spontaneous 
on the cliffs around Ichang. ; 
The fruit of E. japonica is figured by Decaisne without calyx and described as 
umbilicate at the apex; Schneider also states that the calyx is deciduous and figures 
the fruit exactly as Decaisne does. We find in our specimens a persistent calyx 
With ineurved teeth which agrees with the figures quoted above and with other 
figures we have seen. Also the other species of this genus have, as far as we have 
Seen fruits, a persistent calyx. 
Eriobotrya grandiflora Rehder & Wilson, n. sp. 
Arbor parva, 6-metralis ramis robustis; ramuli hornotini dense 
tomento rufo ad secundum annum persistente obtecti, vetustiores 
Obscure griseo-fusci. Folia persistentia, coriacea, oblonga, rarius 
oblongo-oblanceolata, plerumque apice rotundata et subito in acumen 
revissimum producta, rarius breviter acuminata, basi cuneata, 10-16 
