1924] REHDER, LIGNEOUS PLANTS OF NORTHERN CHINA, II 177 



Cotoneaster gracilis Rehder & Wilson in Sargent, PL Wilson. I. 167 

 (1913). 



Cotoneaster nummular ius Pritzel in Bot. Jahrb. xxxvi. beibl. lxxxii. 52 

 (1905).— Vix Fischer & Meyer. 



Shensi: Tai pei shan, W. Purdom, no. 1002, 1910. — See also Rehder 

 & Wilson, 1. c, and Pritzel, 1. c. 



Kansu: Yan pu ko, F. N. Meyer, no. 1965, October 6, 1914 (Herb. U. 

 S. Dept. Agric.). 



Distribution: also Hupeh and Szechuan. 



Cotoneaster racemiflora K. Koch var. soongarica Schneider, Handb. 

 Laubholzk I. 754, fig. 424i (1906). 



Honan: Cheng chow, cultivated, introduced from the hills, J. Hers, 

 nos. 2498, 2581, May 1 and August 2, 1923; Teng feng hsien, Yu tai shan, 

 alt. 600 m., J. Hers, nos. 205, 206, April 23, 1919. 



Shansi: mountains near Tsin ke, F. N. Meyer, no. 404, May, 1907; Lin 

 hsien, Nan yang shan, alt. 2000-3000 m., Tchuang Kieh, Hers no. 2069, 

 September 11, 1922. 



Distribution: also Szechuan and Yunnan; Turkestan to Songaria. 



The identification of the specimens cited above is open to doubt; the 

 pubescence of the leaves and of the inflorescence is rather slight and the 

 leaves are more or less acute or acutish but less so. in no. 2069. The 

 specimens from Cheng chow are in flower and in fruit and no. 2069 from 



Shansi is in fruit but the other specimens are very young with small 

 flower buds. 



Cotoneaster racemiflora var. microcarpa Rehder & Wilson in Sargent, 

 PI. Wilson, i. 169 (1913). 



Kansu: Tsing chow, alt. 1400 m., J. Hers, no. 2406, July 21, 1922. 



Distribution: also Szechuan. 



The Kansu plant agrees exactly with the type specimen except that 

 the leaves are somewhat larger, up to 2 cm. on the fruiting branchlets 

 and up to 3 cm. on the shoot. 



Cotoneaster multiflora Bunge in Ledebour, Fl. Alt. n. 220 (1830). 

 Rehder & Wilson in Sargent, PI. Wilson, i. 170 (1913). — Hers in Jour. 



N. China Branch R. As. Soc. liii. 109 (1922); Liste Ess. Lign. Honan, 



9 (1922). 



Cotoneaster reflexa Carriere in Rev. Hort. 1870-71, 520. — Bretschneider, 



Hist. Eur. Bot. Discov. China, 830 (1898). 

 Cotoneaster sp. F. N. Meyer in U. S. Dept. Agric. Bur. PI. Indust. Invent. 



Seeds PI. Imp. xxxvu. 59, no. 36738 (1916). 



Chili: east of WeicKang, TV. Purdom, no. 1003, 1909; Hsiao Wu tai 

 shan, alt. 1700 m., F. N. Meyer, no. 1259, August 21, 1913; «/. Hers, 

 nos. 1522, 1529, July 14, 1921; Huai lai hsien, Liu shu chwang, alt. 800 

 m., J. Hers, no. 2081, October 3, 1922. — See also Rehder & Wilson, 1. c, 



and Meyer, 1. c. 



Honan: Teng feng hsien, Yu tai shan, alt. 800 m., J. Hers, nos. 298, 



