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ero parietibus carpellorum) crustaceis ; fructus 2-spermi ? Semina ovoideo- 

 oblonga + angulata 3^ ram. longa 2 mm. lata utrinque obtusa, testa fusco- 

 rubescenti glabra tenuiter longitudinaliter rugnlosa coriacea ; albumen paucissi- 

 murn, cotyledonibus oblongis 3 mm. longis apice obtusis basi + cortlatis vel 

 rotundatis 2 mm. latis crassiusculis, radicula 1 mm. longa leviter recurva. 



HAB. Taito : Manchosha, leg. G. NAKAHARA, Jan. 1906 (Fl. et Fr.). 



This is very likely identical with Photinia pustulata LINDL. LINDLEY'S 

 original description is not accessible to me. The only description of this species 

 is that mentioned in WALP. Eep. II. p. 57 : " Foliis obovato-lanceolatis acntis 

 basi cuneatis, supra medium serratis, laevibus, utrinque glabris ; corymbis calvis 

 multifloris ; ramulis pustulatis. In China ad Cantonem." So far as are 

 concerned the characters given in the above description, our plant may be 

 identical with P. pustulata ; yet it may, at the same time, not be the same, 

 ragarding other characters not mentioned in the description. In such a case, 

 it will be the best way to describe our plant as exhaustively as possible and to 

 give it a provisional name, so that any one who is familiar with P. pustulata, 

 in tracing my description, might find no difficulty to decide at once whether 

 my species is distinct from or identical with the former. Our plant does not, 

 however, agree with the description given in SCHNEIDER'S Handb. Laubholzk. 

 I. p. 710, which is as follows. " Z\v. und Blst. dichtwarzig ; B. derblederig, ca. 

 8:4 cm., eifg., beidendig zugespitzt, kahl ; Stiel ca. 8mm; Frst ca. 6cm. Dm., 

 Fr. elliptisch, 9: 6-7 mm." Fruits of our plant are not elliptical but rounded, 

 nearly 7 mm. in diameter. 



Photinia Beauverdiana SCHNEIDER var. notabilis REHDER et WILSON 

 in PL Wilson. Part II. p. 188. Arbriuscula? Ramuli in exsiccato fusco-pur- 

 purascentes glabri hand vel vix rugosi minute leiiticellati, lenticellis minutis 

 plus minus oblongis medio subfissis mm. longis. Folia ut videntur decidua 

 versus apicem ramulorum alternatim plus minus approximatim disposita char- 

 tacea vel chartaceo-coriacea in exsiccato fusco-rubescentia supra glabra sub- 

 nitida subtus pallidiora tenuiter pubescentia obovato-oblonga vel oblonga vel 

 oblanceolata 8-15 cm. longa 3^-4 cm. lata apice caudato-acuminata vel subito 

 acuminata basi obtusa vel cuneato-attenuata vel truncato-rotundata fequalia 

 vel plus minus obliqua margine subregulariter sen-ulata, (serrulis mediis latere 



