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Acer trifidum, var. ningpoense Hance in Jour. Bot. XI. 168 (1873). 

 Kiangsi: Kiukiang Plain (at one place only), alt. 100 m., August 2, 

 1907 (No. 1503). 



Sect. INTEGRIFOLIA Pax » 



Acer oblongum Wallich apud De Candolle, Prodr. I. 593 (1824). 



Western Hupeh: Ichang, around temples, alt. 30-300 m., August 

 and October 1907 (No. 257); Fang Hsien, around houses, alt. 600- 

 900 m., July 1907 (No. 1929, in part); Chang-yang Hsien, roadsides, 

 alt. 300-900 m. (No. 1929, in part). 



Acer oblongum, var. latialatum Pax in Engler, Pflanzenreich, Heft 8 

 (IV. 163), 31 (1903). 



Western Hupeh: Hsing-shan Hsien, alt. 300-900 m., May and 

 October 1907 (No. 376, in part); Ichang, alt. 30-900 m., May and 

 September 1907 (No. 376, in part). 



Acer laevigatum Wallich, PI. As. Bar. II. 3, t. 104 (1831). 



Western Hupeh: Chang-lo Hsien, alt. 300-900 m., July and 

 September 1907 (No. 1924). Western Szech'uan: near Ya-chou, 

 alt. 600-900 m., May, June, and September 1908 (No. 979). 



Acer Fargesii Franchet apud Rehder in Sargent, Trees and Shrubs, 

 I. 180 (1905). 



Western Hupeh: Chang-lo Hsien, thickets, alt. 900-1200 m.. 

 May 1907 (No. 1937). 



Sect. MACRANTHA Pax, emend.^ 



Acer Davidii Franchet in Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, ser. 2, VIII. 212 

 (1884). 



' To record an extension of range the following species of this section may be 

 mentioned here: 



Acer cordatum Pax in Hooker's Icon. XIX. text to t. 1897 (1889). 



Fokien: April to June 1905, S. T. Dunn (Herb. Hongkong Bot. Gard. No. 

 2541). 



^ The fact that certain forms of A. laxiflorwn Pax and A. Maximowiczii Pax 

 are so similar that the separation of these species becomes difficult, has made it ap- 

 parent to me, that there are no characters by which to distinguish in the case of some 

 of the species the section Indivisa from the section Macrantha. I refer therefore 

 all species of the Indivisa Pax to the Macrantha, except A. stachyophyllurn Hiern, 

 which I have already, in 1905, transferred to the section Arguta, A. distylum Siebold 

 & Zuccarini, which with its paniculate inflorescence seems to find its best place in 



