Tas. 8335. 
MICROMELES caLoneura. 
Western China. 
RosaceaE. Tribe PoMEAr. 
Micromees, Decne; C. K. Schneider, Handb. d. Laubholzk. vol. i. p. 700. 
Micromeles caloneura, Stapf in Kew Bull. 1910, p. 192: species ex affinitate 
M. Schwerinii, C. K. Schneider, foliis infra viridibus subglabris serratura 
minus inaequali et minus acuta, inflorescentia multo minus villosa, floribus 
majoribus, sepalis latis obtusis, stylis 5, fructibusque majoribus distincta. 
Arbor mediocris vel frutex; rami glabri, cortice subnitido nigro-castaneo 
obtecti, parce lenticellati, tandem transverse rugosi. (femmae hibernantes 
ovoidei extra glabri; perulae intus fulvo-pilosae et ex axillis pilis fulvis 
stipatae. Folia elliptico- vel obovato-oblonga, acuta vel rarius acuminata 
vel interdum obtusiuscula, basi subacnta, duplicato-serrato-crenata, crenis 
nervos laterales primarios recip'entes quam caeteris plerumque majoribus, 
6-9 cm. longa, 3-45 cm. lata, firme herbacea, decidua, supra glaberrima, 
demum saturate viridia, infra pallida, secundum nervos saltem ad eorum 
axillas parce villosula, nervis lateralibus subrectis eximie parallelis 
utrinqgue 10-12 supra eleganter impressis infra prominentibus, venis 
transversis areolisque tenuissimis; petioli 12 mm. longi, primo laxe 
pilosi, mox glabri, anguste canaliculati; stipulae subfiliformes, 6-8 mm. 
longae, pilosae, mox deciduae. Flores 6 mm. diametro plerumque in 
ramis abbreviatis in corymbos multifloros dispositi; ramuli et pedicelli 
bracteisque caducissimis filiformibus laxe villosuli. Receptaculum turbi- 
natum, pilosulum. Sepa/a late ovata, obtusa, vix 2 mm. longa, villosula. 
fetala alba, late obovata, 5 mm. longa. Stamina circiter 20; antherae 
violaceo-purpureae. Styli 5, inferne connata. Fructus globoso-pyriformis, 
brunveus, lenticellatus, 8-10 mm. longus.-—O. Starr. 
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The genus Micromeles is already represented in gardens 
by two beautiful species, M. alnifolia, Koehne, and J. 
Folgneri, C. K. Schneider ; the former of these has already 
been figured at t. 7773 of this work. To these the species 
now figured will prove a welcome addition. It was first 
met with by Mr, A. Henry in North Wushan, Szechuen, in 
1889, and was again collected by Mr. E. H. Wilson in the 
same general region, in woods at 8000 feet above sea-level, 
in 1904. From seeds sent by Wilson to Messrs. James 
Veitch and Sons plants have been raised in their nursery at 
Coombe Wood and from one of these, which flowered for 
the first time in 1909, the material for our plate has been 
derived. Jf. caloneura has proved perfectly hardy and has 
thriven well in cultivation, and, while it is as yet premature 
SepremBer, 1910, 
