ROSACEAE. — ERIOBOTRYA 193 



An exceedingly common shrub in Hupeh and very variable. It is distinguished 

 from the type by its usually much smaller leaves and nearly glabrous flowers, but 

 some specimens before us have leaves nearly as large as those of the type and are 

 only slightly less hairy; it seems questionable whether the form ia entitled even 

 to varietal rank. 



Here may be added the description of a new variety from Yunnan of Stran- 

 vaesia nussia Decaisne (S. glaucescens Lindley). 



Stranvaesia nussia, var. oblanceolata Rehder & Wilson, n. var. 



A typo recedit foliis longis petiolatis angustioribus et longioribus, plerumque 

 oblanceolatis v. oblongo-oblanceolatis 8-15 cm. longis et 2-4.5 cm. latis, inflorescentiis 

 plerumque laxioribus glabris, calyce glabro rarius sparse floccoso-villosulo. 



Yunnan: forests around Szemao, alt. 1500-1600 m., A. Henry (Nos. 11615, 

 11615 a, 11615 b, 11615 e, 11615 f). 



This variety seems to resemble in the shape of its leaves S. nussia, var. angusti- 

 folia (Decaisne) Schneider, which we have not seen, but which we must assume has a 

 villose inflorescence, as Decaisne gives the narrower leaves as the only distinguishing 

 character. 



ERIOBOTRYA Lindl. 

 Determined by Alfred Rehder and E. H. Wilson. 



Eriobotrya japonica Lindley in Trans. Linn. Soc. XIII. 102 (1821). — 

 Siebold & Zuccarini, Fl. Jap. I. 182, t. 97 (1835). 



Mespilus japonica Thunberg, Fl. Jap. 206 (1784). — Ker in Bot. Reg. V. t. 



365 (1819). 

 Crataegus Bibas Loureiro, Fl. Cochin. 319 (1790). 

 Photinia japonica Franchet & Savatier, Fl. Jap. 1. 142 (1875). 



Western Hupeh: north and south of Ichang, alt. 300-1000 m., 

 April and November (No. 3000; tree 5-6 m. tall, flowers white, fra- 

 grant, fruit orange); without locaUty, A. Henry (No. 5343). 



Very generally cultivated throughout Hupeh and Szech'uan, also spontaneous 

 on the cliffs around Ichang. 



The fruit of E. japonica is figured by Decaisne without calyx and described as 

 umbilicate at the apex; Schneider also states that the caljrx is deciduous and figures 

 the fruit exactly as Decaisne does. We find in our specimens a persistent calyx 

 with incurved teeth which agrees with the figures quoted above and with other 

 figures we have seen. Also the other species of this genus have, as far as we have 

 seen fruits, a persistent calyx. 



Eriobotrya grandiflora Rehder & Wilson, n. sp. 



Arbor parva, 6-metralis ramis robustis; ramuli hornotini dense 

 tomento rufo ad secundum annum persistente obtecti, vetustiores 

 obscure griseo-fusci. Folia persistentia, coriacea, oblonga, rarius 

 oblongo-oblanceolata, plerumque apice rotundata et subito in acumen 

 brevissimum producta, rarius breviter acuminata, basi cuneata, 10-16 



