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«. ussuriensis (Maxim.) Makino. 



Pirus ussuriensis Maxim. Prim. Fl. Amur. p. 102. 



Pirus sinensis a. silrestris Makino MSS. 



A tall tree, often with spinescent branchlets. Leaves often 

 smaller, thinly pubescent. Flowers white. Pome usuallj- 

 globose, about 3^ cm. across, hard, austere. 



Nom. Jap. Yama-nashi, Ishi-nasai, Inu-naslii, Yude-naslii. 



Hah. Japan, spontaneous, subspontaneous and rarely 

 planted. 



/5. culta Makino. 



Pirus communis Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 207; Sieb. Syn. PI. Oecon. 

 Jap. n. 349 ; Sieb. et Zucc. in Abhandl. Akad. Muench. IV. 2, p. 

 131, non Linn. 



Pome larger, about 4-9 cm. in diameter, usually globose, 

 vSweet and succulent when matured. 



Nom. Jap. Naslii. 



Hab. Japan, cultivated. 



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Malus micromalus Makino, sp. nov. 



Pirus micromalus Makino MSS. 



Pirus baccata var. mandshurica Herb. Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. 

 Tokyo, non Maxim. 



Pirus spectabilis var. Maxim in litt. 



A deciduous shrub, attaining about 2Jm. in height ; branches 

 slender, terete, glabrous, very thinly dispersed with lenticels, 

 nigro-castaneous in colour ; young branchlets adpressed- 

 pubescent. Leaves alternate, but fascicled on ' kurztrieb,' 

 petiolate, oblong-lanceolate, ovate-lanceolate, or oblong, but 

 rotundate or elliptical and much smaller in the basal ones, 

 acute, obtuse, or short-acuminate at the apex, acutely at- 

 tenuated at the base, crenulato-serrulate, venoso-veined beneath 

 when young, thinly tomentoso-pubescent, tomentose on the 

 midrib above and on the midrib and veins beneath, but then 

 glabrous or only the midrib piloso-pubescent, coriaceous and 

 6-llcm. long, 2|-4^cm. broad in adult state; venation depressed 

 above ; midrib slender, prominent beneath ; veins about 5-8 on 

 each side, \evy loose, arcuate upwards, prominent beneath ; 



