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Mespiliis cuneata K. Koch in Wochenschr. Gaertn. Pflanzenk. V. 338 (1862). 



Kiangsi: Kiukiang: alt. 1300m. July 28, 1907 (No. 1524; bush 

 1-1.3 m. high; thickets, abundant). Western Hupeh: north and 

 south of Ichang, alt. 1000-1300 m. June 9, 1907 (No. 2989; shrub 

 30-75 cm. high; anthers flesh pink; common). Chekiang: vicinity 

 of Ningpo, D. Macgregor, 1908. Fokien: Dunn's Expedition to 

 Central Fokien (No. 2599). Southern Japan (teste Maximowicz). 



Crataegus sanguinea Pallas, Fl. Ross. I. 225 (1784). — Ledebour, 

 Fl Alt. II. 221 (1830); Fl. Ross. II. 88 (1844-46). — Ruprecht in Bull. 

 Phys. Math. Acad. Sci. St. Petersbourg, XV. 363 (1857).— Maximowicz 

 in Bull. Acad. Sci. St. Petersbourg, XIX. 176 (1873); in Mel Biol. IX. 

 175 (1873). — Lange, Rev. Spec. Gen. Crataegi. 69 (1897). 



Mespilus purpurea Poiret in Lamarck, Encijcl. Meth. Suppl. iv. 73 (1816). 



Crataegus glandulosa De CandoUe, Prodr. IV. 627 (quoad plantas sibiricas; non 

 Willdenow nee Michaux) (1825). 



Mespilus sanguinea Spach, Hist. Veg. II. 62 (1834). — K. Koch,' Dendr. I. 151 

 (1869). 



Mespilus cosansaki K. Koch in Wochenschr. Gaertn. Pflanzenk. V. 396 (1862); 

 in Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. I. 249 (1863-84). 



Crataegus sanguinea, a genuina Maximowicz in Mem. Acad. Sci. St. Peters^ 

 bourg, ix. 101 {Prim. Fl. Amur.) (1859). — Kegel in Mern. Acad. Sci. St. Peters- 

 bourg, scr. 7, IV. pt. iv. 58 (Tent. Fl. Ussur.) (1861). — Korshinsky in Act. 

 Hart. Petrop. XII. 334 (1892). — Schneider, III. Handb. Laubholzk. I. 771, 

 fig. 437 (^g, 438 d-f (1906). 



Western Szech'uan: north of Tachien-lu, alt. 3000 m., June 9, 

 1908 (No. 2987). 



This specimen with only partly grown fruit is very doubtfully referred to this 

 widely distributed northern Asiatic species. Some of the leaves of Mr. Wilson's 

 specimen are broad and rounded and others cuneate at the base, while those of the 

 eastern Siberian plant, so far as I have seen them, are cuneate at the base. 



Crataegus Wilsonii Sargent, n. sp. 



Frutex 1-7-metralis; ramuli tenues, tortuosi v. recti, fusco-auran- 

 tiaci, hornotini tomento villoso-albido vestiti, vetustiores puberuli 

 V. glabri; spinae numerosae rectae v. leviter curvatae, robustae, 1-2.5 

 cm. longae. Folia membranacea, ovata v. obovata, acuta v. obtusa, 

 basi lata rotundata, subcordata v. cuneata, in petiolum alatum decur- 

 rentia, serrata dentibus rectis acuminatis glandulosis, supra medium, 

 4-5-lobata lobis latis rotundatis v. acutis, juniora supra villosa, infra 

 dense tomentosa, 4-5 cm. lata, matura supra glabra nitida, subtus 

 sparse villosa; petioli villosi demum glabrati, eglandulosi, 1.5-2 cm. 

 longi; stipulae lanceolatae v. ovatae, falcatae, acuminatae, glanduloso- 



