Addisonia 27 



(Plate 134) 



MALUS HALLIANA 

 Hall's Apple 



Native of western China 



Family MalacEae Appi,K Family 



Malus Halliana Koehne, Gatt. Pom. 27. 1890. 



Pyrus Halliana Voss, Vilmorin's Blumengartn. ed. 3. 1: 277. 1896. 



A shrub or small tree up to fifteen feet high, with a loose open 

 crown, the bark of the branches reddish brown. The glabrous 

 leaves, which are convolute in the bud, are leathery; the petioles, 

 glabrous at maturity, are commonly a half inch long or less. The 

 blades are elliptic-oblong, those on the new shoots often ovate or 

 ovate-lanceolate, up to two and a half inches long and an inch 

 wide, the apex as well as the base acute, or the base rounded in 

 those of the new shoots; the upper surface is rather dark green 

 and glabrous, except the hairy and glandular midrib, the lower 

 surface much paler, glabrous; the margins are crenate-serrate. 

 The rose-colored flowers, in umbels of two to six, are on slender 

 drooping red or purple pedicels one to two inches long. The calyx, 

 of the same color as the pedicel, has the lobes ovate, about half 

 as long as the tube, and either acute or obtuse at the apex. The 

 petals are oval, rounded at the apex, and of a rose color. The 

 stamens are about twenty. The styles are four or five, united 

 almost to the middle. The fruit is about the size of a pea, is 

 abruptly contracted into a thickened pedicel, and is of a brownish 

 red; the seeds are about a sixth of an inch long. 



Among our decorative shrubs and trees this is one of the most 

 charming, sending forth an abundance of beautiful rose-colored 

 flowers usually late in May in the vicinity of New York. It is of 

 well-rounded habit, with spreading branches which are not too 

 closely crowded, thus giving an airiness and lightness to the tree 

 not possessed by all apples. A native of China, it has long been 

 cultivated in Japanese gardens. About 1863 it was introduced 

 into American gardens by Dr. G. R. Hall, an American physician, 

 who made his home in China and Japan for many years. It is 

 hardy as far north as Massachusetts. The illustration was pre- 

 pared from a specimen of this plant which has been in the collections 

 of the New York Botanical Garden since 1896. 



Geiorge V. Nash. 



Explanation op Plats. Fig. 1. — Flowering branch. Fig. 2. — Fruiting 

 branch. 



