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Tsi yuan hsien, Tien tan shan, J. Hers, no. 1709, September 20, 1921; 

 without precise locality, J. Hers, no. 16, 1918. 



Shensi: "Mte. Kin qua san," G. Giraldi, July 10, 1897; Tai pei shan, 

 W. Purdom, no. 6, 1910 and no. 423, July 2, 1910.— See also Pritzel, 1. c, 

 and Rehder, 1. c. 



Distribution: also Kiangsu, Kiangsi, Hupeh, eastern Szechuan; 

 Japan. 



This is apparently a very variable species and some specimens closely 

 approach S. triloba L., particularly Purdom's nos. 6 and 423 from Shensi 

 which resemble that species in their much smaller, thinner and glabrous 

 leaves but the leaves are cuneate-obovate and scarcely 3-lobed. 



Spiraea trilobata Linnaeus, Mant. Alt. 244 (1771). — Bunge in Mem 

 Div. Sav. Acad. Sci. St. Petersb. n. 97 (Enum. PI. Chin. Bor. 23) (1833). 

 Turczaninov in Bull. Soc. Nat. Moscou, x. no. vn. 151 (1837). — Maxi- 

 mowicz in Mem. Div. Sav. Acad. Sci. St. Petersb. ix. 471 (Ind. Fl. Pekin.) 

 (1859); in Act. Hort. Petrop. vi. 197 (Adnot. Spir.) (1879).— Franchet 

 in Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, ser. 2, v. 259 (PL David. I. 107) (1883); 

 in Mem. Soc. Sci. Nat. Cherbourg, xxiv. 214 (Fl. Tche-fofi) (1884). 

 Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. xxiii. 228 (1887). — Bretschneider, Hist. 

 Eur. Bot. Discov. China, 53 (1898).— Pritzel in Bot. Jahrb. xxix. 283 

 (1900). — Loesener in Bot. Centralbl. Beih. xxxvu. abt. n. 131 (1919). 

 Bailey, Gent. Herb. i. 31 (1920). — Limpricht, Bot. Reis. Hochgeb. Chin. 

 Ost.-Tib. 404 (1922). — Hers in Jour. N. China Branch R. As. Soc. liii. 

 116 (1922); Liste Ess. Lign. Honan, 30 (1922).— Cowdry in Jour. N. 

 China Branch R. As. Soc. liii. 164 (PI. Peitaiho) (1922). 



Spiraea pubescens Gilg in Bot. Jahrb. xxxiv. beibl. lxxv. 39 (1904). — Non 

 Turczaninov. 



Chili: Weichang, W. Purdom, no. 1141, 1910; Peking, western hills, J. 

 Hers, nos. 1397, 1581, 1613, May 15, and August 7 and 21, 1921; San tun 

 ying, on dry rocky slopes, F. N. Meyer, no. 962, May 29, 1913; Tsing 

 shui tsien, J. Hers, no. 1629, September 6, 1921; Miao feng shan, alt. 

 1000 m., J. Hers, nos. 2534, 2544, June 12 and 18, 1923; "Chin, bor.," ex 

 Herb. Bunge (Gray Herb.). — See also Bunge, 1. c, Turczaninov, 1. c, 

 Maximowicz, 1. c, Franchet, 1. c, Hemsley, 1. c, Bretschneider, 1. c, 

 Limpricht, 1. c, and Cowdry, 1. c. 



Shantung: Lau shan, alt. 300 m., R. Zimmermann, no. 393, 1901; 

 Po shan, F. N. Meyer, no. 264, September, 1907. — See also Loesener, 1. c, 

 and Gilg, 1. c. 



Honan: Lushih, Tang ho, alt. 1000 m., J. Hers, no. 951, October 11, 

 1919; Kio shan, L. H. Bailey, June 23, 1917.- — See also Bailey, 1. c, and 

 Hers, 1. c. 



Shansi: Sheng shih ling, alt. 1500 to 2500 m., Tckuang Kieh, Hers no. 

 2057, September 9, 1922; Wu tai shan, alt. 1300 m., J. Hers, no. 2611, 

 July 29, 1923. 



Shensi: several localities, G. Giraldi (ex Pritzel, 1. c). 

 Distribution: also Dahuria, Siberia, Turkestan. 



