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18 ; V. Houtte, FI. des Serres, V. (1849) tab. 510-512 (van 

 umbilicata) et XIV. (1861) p. 23, tab. 1403 {var. albo-cincta) ; 

 Wenzig in Linn^ea, XXXYIII. (1874) p. 10 ; Nichols. 111. Diet. 

 Gard. I. p. 419, fig. 587 (1884) ; Focke in Engl, et Prantl, 

 Nat. Pfl.-Fam. III. 3 (1894) p. 22 ; Palib. Consp. Fl. Kor. I. 

 (1898) p. 74, non Pars. 



Cydonia japonica DC. Prodr. II. (1825) p. 638, pro parte, 

 non Pers. 



Buke Kcempf. Amoen. Exot. V. (1712) p. 844. 



Nom. Jap. Boke, Kara-hoke. 



Hab. Japan, cultivated. 



This was formerU' introduced from China, and now is 

 widely cultivated, with the various forms of the flowers. It is 

 not yet found wild in Japan. 



Pirus (Pashia) dimorphophylla Makino, sp. nov. 



? Pirus Calleryana Maxim, in Mel. Biol. IX. p. 169 (1870) 

 quoad pi. Jap. 



A deciduous small -tree, attaining about 6m. in height ; 

 trunk erect, many-branched, densely foliose ; branches slender, 

 glabrous, terete, dispersed with pale lenticels, umber-brown 

 but often nigrescent when dry; branchlet often scarcely flex- 

 uous, tomentose when young but soon glabrous, lower 

 branches often armed with axillary foliiferous patent and 

 straight spinescent branchlets. Leaves heteromorphous, 



alterate, but fascicled on the ' kurztrieb ', very thinly above and 

 subdensely beneath and densely towards margins white-flocculent 

 when young but then glabrous, petiolate, depressed-ovate, 

 orbiculate, orbiculato-ovate, lato-ovate, or ovate, very rarely 

 subrhombeo-ovate, and sometimes narrowly ovato-oblong or 

 ovato-lanceolate in those towards the top of shoots, rounded 

 or rounded-subcordate at the base, acute-acuminate or at- 

 tenuato-acuminate with a sharp point at the apex, simply in- 

 cumbent serrulate with usually mucronato-apiculate deltoid or 

 ovato-deltoid teeth, chartaceous, opaque, often darkish or viri- 

 descent-darkish when dried, 2-9cm. long, li-5icm. broad ; midrib 

 slender, prominent beneath ; veins about 6-16 on each side, 



