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40617 to 40619— Continued. 



7,000 feet high in Mount Gokwan, in the aboriginal district of Nanto. 

 Some time afterwards Mr. Sasaki, my assistant, found the flower of 

 the same tree in its later stage of bloom at Mount Bui. in the district of 

 Ako. After having gathered all these facts together, I was at last 

 enabled to solve this difficult problem, which bad been taking my atten- 

 tion for a year. The plant in question is a species of wild apple tree, 

 and is called Sashibe or Sado by the aborigines. According to Mr. Mori, 

 'Sashibe' is the name given by the Bunun tribe and • Sado' is the one 

 used by the Atayal tribe, living near Horisha. This plant is well 

 known among the Formosan aborigines, so that their villages are often 

 named after this plant. This plant is called 'Take sashibe' in Ako 

 district and 'Ala/n sad' at Horisha, both 'take' and 'aian' signifying 

 a tribe. It is said that among the aborigines of the Paiwan tribe of 

 Taito district their villages are often named after this plant. The Chi- 

 nese inhabitants, however, name it differently ; at Ako it is called 

 ' Shaburai' and at Rinkiho 'Soan-sha' [Suan cha, sour hawthorn?] 

 The fruit is often pickled in salt and sold by Chinese grocery dealers in 

 towns in the vicinity of the savage district. They cost on an average 

 about 6 sens per dozen. I bought some of the fruit myself at Ako and 

 Rinkiho. The seed of the fruit germinating very easily, it could, in my 

 opinion, be successfully grafted with good European apples. This is, 

 however, a practical question requiring an experiment. In April of this 

 year I made a scientific research into the nature of the said plant, in 

 collaboration with Mr. G. Koidzumi, of the Science College of the Tokyo 

 Uuniversity, which resulted in our identifying it as a new species." 

 (Kaivakami, Tokyo Botanical Magazine, vol. 25, p. 145-146, 1911.) 



40620 to 40622. Prunus spp. Amygdalacese. 



From Sapporo, Japan. Presented by the director, Botanic Garden of the 

 College of Agriculture, Tohoku Imperial University. Received May 3, 

 1915. 



40620. Prunus nipponica kurilensis (Miyabe) Wilson. 



A small freely branching tree with reddish or grayish brown bark. 

 Young leaves densely pubescent or pilose. Mature leaves pilose to sparsely 

 hirsute or pubescent on the veins, obovate-subrhombic to ovate-elliptic: 

 blade 4.5 to 8 cm. long. 3 to 4.5 cm. broad, acuminate. Flowers 1 to : 

 fasciculate, earlier than the leaves. Petals broadly elliptic-obovate, til 

 with rose color. Japan. (Adapted from G. Koidzumi, .lour. Coll. Sci. 

 Imp. Univ. Tokyo, vol. 34, art. 2, p. 284-) 



40621. Prunus maximowiczii Rupr. Cherry. 

 See S. P 1. No. 40189 for previous introduction and description. 



40622. Pbunus sereulata sachalinensis (Schmidt) Makino. 

 {Prunus sargentii Rehder.) Sargent's cherry. 



Young leaves brownish, stipules lanceolate ."> to 6 mm. ion-, laciniate. 

 Flowers rose colored, umbellate-fasciculate, large, earlier than or appear- 

 ing with the leaves. Bracts obovate-oblong, ."> to 6 mm. long. •_'.:. to :: nun. 

 broad, margin fimbriate-denticulate. (Adapted from a. Koidzumi, Jour. 

 Coll. Sci. Imp. Univ. of Tokyo, vol. 34, art. 2, p. 276.) 



