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Chaenomeles sinensis Koehne, Gatt. Pomac. 29 (1896), as "C. chinen- 



sis." — Loesener in Bot. Centralbl. Beih. xxxvu. abt. n. 132 (1919). 

 Hers in Jour. N. China Branch R. As. Soc. liii. 108 (1922); Liste Ess. 

 Lign. Honan, 8 (1922). 



Cydonia sinensis Thouin in Ann. Mus. Paris, xix. 145, t. 8, 9 (1812).— Gilg 

 in Bot. Jahrb. xxxix. beibl. lxxv. 39 (1904), as "C. chinensis." 



Shantung: near Tsing tau (ex Loesener, 1. c, and Gilg, 1. a). 



Northern Kiangsu: Wang kia shan, near Hai chow, J. Hers, no. 623, 

 May 5, 1921. 



Honan: cultivated (ex Hers, 1. c). 



Distribution: also Chekiang and cultivated elsewhere by the Chinese 

 for its large fragrant fruit. 



Pyrus ussuriensis Maximowicz in Bull. Phys. Math. Acad. Sci. St. 

 Petersb. xv. 132 (1857); in Mem. Div. Sav. Acad. Sci. St. Petersb. ix. 

 471 (Ind. Fl. Pekin.) (1859).— Rehder in Proc. Am. Acad. Sci. l. 227 

 (Syn. Chin. Pyrus) (1915). 



Pyrus communis Bungc in M&n. Div. Sav. Acad. Sci. St. Petersb. n. 101 



(Enum. PL Chin. Bor. 27) (1833), pro parte.— Non Linnaeus. 

 Pyrus Simonii Carrifcre in Rev. Hort. 1872, 28, fig. 3.— Bretschneider, Hist. 



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

 Pyrus sinensis Franchet, Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, s£r. 2, v. 272 (PL David. 



i. 120) (1883).— Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. xxm. 258 (1887), pro parte — 



Non Lindley. 



Chili: "Chin, bor.;" ex herb. Bunge (Gray Herb.); Hsiao Wu tai 

 shan, F. N. Meyer, no. 1232, August 20, 1913; Po hau shan, J. Hers, no. 

 1653, September 9, 1921; Tsing shiu tsien, J. Hers, no. 1639, September 6, 

 1921.— See also Maximowicz, 1. c. (1859), Rehder, 1. c, Bunge, 1. c, Fran- 

 chet, 1. c, and Hemsley, 1. c. 



Shansi: Hia hsien, Huang lai kow, J. Hers, no. 1863, October 2, 1921; 

 Wen ju ho valley, J. Hers, no. 2817, October 2, 1923. 



Manchuria 



Arb. ii. 60 



Pyrus ussuriensis var. ovoidea Rehder in Jour. Arnold 



(1920). 



Pyrus ovoidea Rehder in Proc. Am. Acad. Sci. l. 228 (1915). — Bailey, Gent. 

 Herb. i. 29 (1920). 



Honan: Kio shan, planted (ex Bailey, 1. c). 



Shansi: near Ping yang fu, cultivated, F. N. Meyer, no. 1663, July 31, 

 1914. 



Distribution: probably cultivated in Fokien, Yunnan and in Japan, 

 apparently spontaneous in Korea and in Japan, or only naturalized in 

 the latter country. 



Pyrus Bretschneideri Rehder in Proc. Am. Acad. Sci. l. 231 (1915). 



Pyrus communis Bunge in M£m. Div. Sav. Acad. Sci. St. Petersb. n. 101 

 (Enum. PL Chin. Bor. 27) (1833), pro parte. — Non Linnaeus. 



Chili: cultivated near Peking, F. N. Meyer, no. 1402, April 29, 1915; 

 near San tung ying, on stony hill slopes, F. A r . Meyer, no. 996, June 3, 

 1913 (sterile); Po hua shan, alt. 1000 m., J. Hers, no. 2237, October 12, 

 1922. — See also Rehder, 1. c. 



