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According to Debeaux's description "fructibus parvis acerbis, foliis 

 germinibusque glaberrimis" his plant must be either typical M. prunifolia 

 or possibly M. baccata Mill., but the former is not known from China 

 at all and it is therefore doubtful if it occurs spontaneously in Shantung. 

 Meyer's specimen which is sterile is perfectly glabrous and therefore 

 seems to belong here rather than to var. rinki. 



Malus prunifolia Borkh. var. rinki Rehder in Sargent, PI. Wilson, n. 

 279 (1915). 



Pyrus Malus Bunge in Mern. Div. Sav. Acad. Sci. St. P£tersb. n. 101 (Enum. 



PI. Chin. Bor. 27) (1833). — Debcaux in Act. Soc. Linn. Bordeaux, xxxm. 



43 (Fl. Tien-tsin, 20) (1879).— Franchet in M6m. Soc. Sci. Nat. Cher- 



bourg, xxiv. 216 (1884). — Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. ran. 257 (1887). 



Faber, Denkschr. Entwickel. Kiautschou, 32 (1898). — Non Linnaeus. 

 ? Pyrus prunifolia Debeaux in Act. Soc. Linn. Bordeaux, xxxi. 155 (Fl. 



Tch6-fou, 60) (1876).— Franchet in M6m. Soc. Sci. Nat. Cherbourg, xxxi. 

 216 (1884).— Non Willdenow. 



Pyrus Malus p. tomentosa Franchet in M6m. Soc. Sci. Nat. Cherbourg, xxxi. 



216 (1884).— Ito in Tokyo Bot. Mag. xiv. 118 (1900).— Non W. D. Koch. 



Malus domcsticaLoesener in Bot. Centralbl. Beih. xxxvu. abt. n. 132 (1919). — 

 Non Borkhausen. 



Chili: Peking, western hills, J. Hers, nos. 2245, 2246, 2253 (abnormal 

 flowering), October 14, 1922; Ta han king, J. Hers, no. 1640, September 

 7, 1921; Hsiao Wu tai shan, cultivated, F. N. Meyer, no. 1234, August 

 20, 1913 (Herb. U. S. Dept. Agric); Po hua shan, J. Hers, no. 1385, May 

 1, 1921. — See also Bunge, 1. c, and Debeaux, 1. c. (1879). 



Shantung: Chifu (ex Franchet, 1. c, and Debeaux, I. c. [1876]); Tsing 

 tau (ex Faber, 1. c, Ito, 1. c, and Loesener, 1. c). 



Honan: Chengchow, more or less wild, used as stock, J. Hers, no. 

 1908, April 15, 1922. 



Distribution: Hupeh; cultivated elsewhere in China and in Korea 

 and Japan. 



This is apparently the Apple commonly cultivated in China. According 

 to Wilson it occurs spontaneous in Hupeh; also Hers' no. 1385 from the 

 Po hua shan, Chili, may be from a tree growing wild. The specimen 

 from Cheng chow looks much like M. pumila Mill, as it has rather short 

 densely villose pedicels, but without fruit, its determination rests doubtful 

 and it seems safer to consider it a form of the Chinese Apple. 



Malus spectabilis Borkhausen, Handb. Forstbot. II. 1279 (1803). 

 Rehder in Sargent, PI. Wilson, n. 289 (1915). — Hers in Jour. N. China 

 Branch R. As. Soc. liii. 112 (1922); Liste Ess. Lign. Honan, 19 (1922). 



Pyrus spectabilis Alton, Hort. Kew. n. 175 (1789). — Bunge in M&n. Div. 



Sav. Acad. Sci. St. P^tersb. n. 289 (Enum. PL Chin. Bor. 27) (1833).— 



Maximowicz in Bull. Acad. Sci. St. P£tcrsb. xix. 170 (1873); in M61. Biol. 



ix. 166 (1873), excl. synon. — Franchet in Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, s£r. 



2, v. 271 (PL David, i. 119) (1883); in M£m. Soc. Sci. Nat. Cherbourg, 



xxiv. 217 (Cat. PL Tch£-foii) (1884). — Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. xxin. 



258 (1887), exclud. syn. plur. et plantis e Kiangsi et Hupeh. — Bailey, Gent. 



Herb. I. 29 (1920). 

 Malus sp. F. N. Meyer in U. S. Dept. Agric. Bur. PL Indust. Invent. Seeds 

 • PL Imp. xxxix. 105, no. 38231 (1917). 



