1924] REHDER, LIGNEOUS PLANTS OF NORTHERN CHINA, II 181 



tai shan, alt. 1700 m., F. N. Meyer, no. 1157, August 8, 1913; J. Hers, 



nos. 1507, 1521, 1567, July 14 and 16, 1921 (sterile) .—See also Bunge, 



1. c, Walpers, 1. c., Turczaninov, 1. c., Maximowicz, 1. c., Hance, 1. c., 



Franchet, 1. c. (1883), Bretschneider, 1. c., Sargent, 1. c., Limpricht, 1. c., 

 and Meyer, 1. c. 



Shantung: Chifu, cultivated, C. S. Sargent, September 22, 1903; Po 

 shan, F. N. Meyer, no. 260, September, 1907 (sterile; Herb. U. S. Dept. 

 Agric.).— See also Debeaux, 1. c., Franchet, 1. c. (1884), Faber, 1. c, 

 Loesener, 1. c, and Gilg, 1. c. 



1921. 



May 



Hers 



See also 



Hers, 1. c. 



Distribution: also Manchuria and Korea. 



Crataegus pinnatifida var. major N. E. Brown in Gard. Chron. n. 

 ser. xxvi. 621, fig. 121 (1886).— Sargent, PI. Wilson, i. 182 (1913). 



Crataegus pinnatifida Bretschneider, Hist. Eur. Bot. Discov. China, 105 

 (1898).— Vix Bunge. 



Chili: Nankow, cultivated, J. G. Jack, October 6, 1905 (fruiting 

 branch); Peking, purchased from street vender, F. N. Meyer, no. 1337, 

 April 22, 1913; Miao feng shan, alt. 1000 m., cultivated, J. Hers, no. 

 2536, June 17, 1923— See also Sargent, 1. c, Bretschneider, 1. c, 



Honan: Hwei hsien, Pei yao, J. Hers, no. 732, June 18, 1919; Cheng 

 chow, cultivated, J. Hers, no. 92, May 10, 1920; Honan plain, cultivated, 

 J. Hers, no. 338, April 24, 1921. 



Osteomeles Schwerinae Schneider, 111. Handb. Laubholzk. i. 762, fig. 



430m, 431o-r (1906).— Wilson in Sargent, PI. Wilson. I. 184 (1912). 

 Osteomeles sp. Farrer in Jour. Roy. Hort. Soc. xlii. 87 (1916). 



Kansu: near Siku (ex Farrer, 1. c). 



There can be hardly any doubt that Farrer's plant belongs to Osteomeles 

 Schwerinae, the only species of that genus known from western China. 



Sorbus discolor Hedlund in Kongl. Svenska Vetensk.-Akad. Handl. 

 xxxv. 37 (Monog. Sorbus) (1901).— Schneider, 111. Handb. Laubholzk. 



i. 669, fig. 3661- m, 367g (1906).— Koebne in Sargent, PI. Wilson. I. 480 

 (1913). 



Pyrus discolor Maximowicz in Mem. Div. Sav. Acad. St. P£tersb. ix. 103 



(Prim. Fl. Amur.), 171 (Ind. Fl. Pekin.) (1859). 

 Pyrus Aucuparia Maximowicz in Bull. Acad. Sci. St. Petersb. xix. 173 (1873); 



in Mel. Biol. ix. 170 (1873), pro parte.— Franchet in Nouv. Arch. Mus. 



Paris, ser. 2, v. 272 (PI. David, i. 120) (1883).— Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. 



xxin. 255 ( 1 8S7) , pro parte. — ? Kanitz in Szechenyi, Keletazs. Utj an . Tudom. 



Ered. n. 810 (Enum. PI. 22) (1891); in Szechenyi, Wiss. Ergeb. Reise Ostas. 



ii. 699 (1898).— Non Linnaeus. 



Sorbus pekinensis Koehne in Gartenfl. l. 406 (1901); in Sargent, PI. Wilson, 

 i. 481 (1913). 



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

 2125, October 7, 1922; Hsiao Wu tai shan, Shui shih tao, alt. 1500 m., 



