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Another specimen from Shantung, also sterile, collected by F. N. Meyer 

 on the Po shan (No. 260, September, 1897) resembles C. sanguinea Pall., 

 but without fruit a definite determination is not possible. 



Wattiana 



Linn. Soc. xvm. 323, 



t. 40 (1891).— Bean in Bot. Mag. cxlv. t. 8818 (1919). 



? Crataegus Oxyacantha Kanitz in Szechenyi, Keletazs. Utjan. Tudom. Ered. 

 ii. 810 (PI. Enum. 22) (1891); in Szechenyi, Wiss. Ergeb. Reis. Ostas. n. 699 



(LS98). — Non Linnaeus. 



Chili: Hsiao Wu tai shan, Tieh ling sze, alt. 1300 m., J. Hers, no. 

 2118, October 7, 1922. 



Shansi: Wu chai hsien, Ta nan kow, alt. 2000-3000 m., Tchuang Kieh, 

 Hers no. 2019, September 7, 1922; Nan yang shan, alt. 1500-2500 m., 

 J. Hers, no. 2725, September 22-30, 1923. 



Shensi: Kin tan san, G. Giraldi, July 14, 1897; Thui kio tsuen, G. 

 Giraldi, September 25, 1897; Lao y san, G. Giraldi, 1897; Lung chow, 

 Ki kia po, alt. 1400 m., J. Hers, no. 2383, July 4, 1922. 



TV 



1134, 1910; Chi shan, near Cheng hsien, F. N. Meyer, no. 1747, October 

 1, 1914 (Herb. U. S. Dept. Agric). 



Distribution: also Beluchistan to Altai mountains. 



The Crataegus enumerated by Kanitz as Crataegus oxyacantha is 

 possibly this species, as it is the only Crataegus known from this region. 



Crataegus pinnatifida Bunge in Mem. Div. Sav. Acad. Sci. St. Petersb. 

 ii. 100 (Enum. PI. Chin. Bor. 26) (1833).— Walpers, Rep. n. 58 (1843). 

 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).— Hance in Jour. Bot. vm. 313 (1870).— Debeaux in Act. Soc. 

 Linn. Bordeaux, xxxi. 154 (Fl. Tche-fou, 59) (1876).— Franchet in Nouv. 

 Arch. Mus. Paris, ser. 2, v. 270 (PI. David, i. 118) (1883); in Mem. Soc. 

 Sci. Nat. Cherbourg, xxiv. 216 (Cat. PI. Tche-fou) (1884).— Palibin 



in Act. Hort. Petrop. xiv. 118 (1895). — Bretschneider, Hist. Eur. Bot. 

 Discov. China, 333 (1898). — Faber in Denkschr. Entwickel. Kiautschou, 

 32 (1898).— Sargent, PI. Wilson, i. 182 (1913).— Loesener in Bot. Centralbl. 

 Beih. xxxvn. abt. ii. 113 (1919).— Limpricht, Bot. Reis. Hochgeb. Chin. 

 Ost.-Tib. 405 (1922).— Hers in Jour. N. China Branch R. As. Soc. Lin. 



109 (1922); Liste Ess. Lign. Honan, 10 (1922). 



Mespihis pinnatifida K. Koch, Dendr. i. 152 (1869). — Ito in Tokyo Bot. Mag. 

 xiv. 129 (1!)()0). 



Crataegus monogyna Gilg in Bot. Jahrb. xxxiv. beibl. lxxv. 39 (1904). 

 Non Jacquin. 



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

 Seeds PI. Imp. xv. 17, no. 22607 (1909). 



Chili: Weichang, TV. Purdom, nos. 57, 1116, 1909; near Peking, western 

 hills, Warburg, no. 6629; Lau shan, F. N. Meyer, no. 854a, December 3, 

 1907 (seeds only; plants under no. 22687 grown at Chico [Herb. U. S. 

 Dept. Agric.]); Po hua shan, /. Hers, no. 1409, May 1, 1921; Hsiao Wu 



