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Formosa: Herinbi, prov. Taihoku, E. H. Wilson, no. 10185A; Taihei, 

 prov. Giran, E. H. Wilson, no. 10185; Takow, A. Henry, no. 1020; Sozan, 

 prov. Taihoku, E. H. Wilson, no. 10796; Hso-kei-ben, prov. Kagi, E. H. 

 Wilson, no. 9805; Bankinsing, A. Henry, no. 498. 



Eriobotrya deflexa var. grandiflora Nakai. 



Eriobotrya grandiflora Render & Wilson in Sargent, PI. Wilson. 1. 193 (1912) 

 Schneider, 111. Handb. Laubholzk. n. 999 (1912). 



: prov. Szechuan, E. H. Wilson, no. 3506; Mupin, E. H. Wilson 



no. 2999. 



Merrill (in Philipp. Bur. Governm. Labor 



xxxv. 19 [1904]) has a bony endocarp and an ovary of 5 (3-4) cells, each 

 cell containing 2 suprabasifix ovules. It should be removed to the genus 



iffith 



ambigua 



prionophylla 



Eriobotrya has affinities with Photinia on one side and with Raphio- 

 lepis on the other. It has a persistent calyx though Decaisne described 

 it as "Calyx 5-dentatus, marcescens vel deciduus. ' ' All known species of 

 Eriobotrya have a persistent calyx. This persistency of the calyx is an 

 important character in this genus and in Photinia and Pourthiaea, though 



Sorbus. 



Mai 



NEW 



EASTERN ASIA 



T. Nakai 



Smilax japonica A. Gray in Perry, Narr. Exp. China Jap. 320 (1856). 



Coprosmanthus japonicus Kunth, Enum. v. 268 (1850) 



/&?,?*J l *7 Mfa , Miquel in Versl - Med. Kon. Akad. Weten. ser. 2, n. 867 

 (1867); m Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. m. 150 (1867); Prol. Fl. Jap. 314 (1867).— 

 Maxnnowicz in Bull. Acad. Sci. St. Petersb. xvn. 171 (1871)- in Mel 

 Biol, viii 408 (1871).— Franchet et Savatier, Enum. PI. Jap. n. 50 (1879).— 



i'rii' e Ca " (,ol !p» Monog. Phaner. i. 207 (1878).— Makino in Tokyo 

 Bot. Mag. ix. (112) (1S95). 



Smilax china var. trinervula Makino in Tokyo Bot. Mag. xiv. 184 (1900). 



Hondo et Hokkaido. 



This is a more slender plant than Smilax china and has narrower leaves. 

 The cells of the ovary have only one ovule each. There are two sheets 



of type specimens of Smilax japonica in the Gray Herbarium; one consists 



Morrow 



W 



specimen collected on Webster Island near Shimoda (province Idzu) by 

 C. Wright. 



Chosenia eucalyptoides Nakai, comb. nov. 



Salix eucalyptoides F. N. Meyer in litt. apud Schneider in Sargent, PI. Wilson. 

 in. 99 (1916). 



