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Shantung: see Franchet, I. c. (Mem. Cherbourg), and Faber, 1. c. 



Honan: see Bailey, 1. c. and Hers, 1. c. 



Shensi: base of the Tai pei shan, W. Purdom, 1910; near Sianfu, F. N. 

 Meyer, no. 1712, July 25, 1914; without locality, G. Giraldi, 1897. — See 

 also Beissner, 1. c., Masters, I.e., Rehder & Wilson, I.e. and Meyer, I.e. 



Kansu: Cultivated; see Meyer, 1. c. 



Distribution: also Kiangsu, Hupeh, Szechuan, Hunan, Fokien; 

 Korea, Japan. 



According to Hers (1. c.) this species and J . chinensis var. variegata 

 Fort, are planted in Honan; also Bailey (1. c.) found the species only planted, 

 but states that the trees in Kio shan are said to have been transferred from 

 the wild. 



Juniperus chinensis var. pendula Franchet in Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, 

 ser. 2, vn. 101 (PL David. I. 291) (1884). 



Shensi: Tsin ling shan, A. David, January, 1873 (fragments and 

 photograph of type specimen). 



Juniperus saltuaria Rehder & Wilson in Sargent, PI. Wilson, n. 61 > 

 (1914). 

 Kansu: Peling shan, alt. 3300-3600 m., W. Purdom, 1911. 

 Distribution: also northwestern Szechuan. 



GNETACEAE 



Ephedra equisetina Bunge in Mem. Div. Sav. Acad. Sci. St. Pctersb. 

 vn. 499 (1851).— Stapf in Denkschr. Math.-Nat. CI. Akad. Wiss. Wien, 

 lvi. pt. 2, 81, t. 3, fig. xxi. 1-4 (Art. Ephedra) (1889). — Skan in Jour. 

 Linn. Soc. xxvi. 538 (1899). — Cowdry in Jour. N. China Branch R. As. 

 Soe. liii. 174 (PL Peitaiho) (19 L 22). — Limpricht, Bot. Reis. Hochgeb. 

 Chin. Ost-Tib. 305 (1922). 



Ephedra vidgaris Maximowicz in M£m. Div. Sav. Acad. Sci. St. Pctersb. ix. 



477 (Ind. Fl. Pekin.) (1859); non Richard. 

 Ephedra procera Franchet in Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, s6r. 2, vn. 94 (PL 



David. I. 2S4) (1884); non C. A. Meyer. 



Ephedra sp. Meyer in U. S. Dept. Agric. Bur. PL Indust. Invent. Seeds PL 

 Imp. xv. 57, no. 23026 (1909).— Hers in Jour. N. China Branch R. As. Soc. 

 liii. 110 (1922); Liste Ess. Lign. Honan, 12 (1922). 



Chili: Peitaho, rocks at sea-shore, N. H. Cowdry, no. 489, 1918. — See 

 also Maximowicz, 1. c, Franchet, 1. c, Stapf, 1. c, Skan, 1. c, Cowdry, 1. c. 

 and Limpricht, 1. c. 



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



Shansi: Tai yuen fu, cultivated, F. N. Meyer, no. 688, March 31, 1908 

 (ex Meyer, 1. c). 



Kansu : Ta tsing chan, A. David (ex Franchet, 1. c., Stapf, 1. c. and Skan. 

 1. c). 



Distribution: also Central Asia. 



I have not seen Meyer's specimen, but there is a plant under his number 

 growing in this Arboretum; Meyer states that the cultivated plants he 



