ROSACEAE. — PRUNUS 275 



4. Prunus pilosa (Turczaninow) Maximowicz in Bull. Acad. Sei. St. Peter sbourg, 

 XXIX. 79; in Mil. Biol. XI. 664 (1883). 



Amygdalus pilosa Turczaninow in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. V. 189 (1832). 



Northeastern Mongolia. 



Very similar to Prunus pedunculata and probably not diflerent, or a variety. 



5. Prunus mongolica Maximowicz in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. XLV. 16 (1879). 



in Bull. Acad. Sci. St. Petersbourg, XXIX. 78; in Md. Biol. XI. 663 (1883). 

 Southern Mongoha. 



6. Prunus dehiscens Koehne. See p. 271. 



7. Pnmus mira Koehne. See p. 272. 



8. Prunus Davidiana (Carriere) Franchet in Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, s6r. 2, V. 

 255 {PI. David. I. 103). (1883). 



Persica Davidiana Carriere in Rev. Hort. 1872, 74, fig. 10 (fructus). 

 Prunus Persica, a Davidiana Maximowicz in Bull. Acad. Sci. St. Petersbourg, 

 XXIX. 81; in Mel. Biol. XI. 667 (1883). 

 S hen si; Yenan-fu, May 1910, Wm. Purdom (No. 347). I have also seen speci- 

 mens from Kwei-chou collected by J. Cavalerie (Nos. 2212, 2225), E. Bodinier 

 and L. Martin (No. 2071), and from Yunnan, Yimnan-sen, E. Bodinier (No. 54D). 

 According to Maximowicz the species occurs on the moimtains near Peking and on 

 those of Shensi and Kansu. 



Prunus Davidiana alba (Carriere), Bean in Garden, L. 165, fig. (1896). 

 Persica Davidiana alba Carriere in Rev. Hort. 1872, 76. 



Prunus Davidiana flore albo Wittmack in Gartenfl. XLIV. 129, fig. 34, t. 1412 

 (1895). 



9. Prunus Persica (Linnaeus) Stokes. See p. 273. 



Prunus Persica, var. Potanini BataUn in Act. Hort. Petrop. XII. 164 (1892). 

 Kansu : in the valley of the river Hei-ho, July 21, 1885, G. N. Potanin. 



Prunus Persica, var. densa Makino in Tokyo Bot. Mag. XVI. 178 (1902), 

 Cultivated in Japan, where it was introduced from China. 



As Japanese garden forms the following varieties have been described: 

 Prunus Persica, /3 vulgaris, f. stellata Makino, 1. c. XXII. 119 (1908) = Am.ygdalu9 



Persica, var. stellata, in Ann. Hort. Bot. Pays-Bas, II. 66, t. 6 (1859) = Amygdalus 



Persica, var. monstrosa Siebold ined. apud Maximowicz in Bull. Acad. Sci. St. 



Petersbourg, XXIX. 83; in Mel. Biol. XI. 669 (1883), and Prunus Persica, /3. vulgaris, 



f. praematura Makino in Tokyo Bot. Mag. XXII. 119 (1908). 



Prunus persica, var. nucipersica, Dippel, Handb. Laubholzk. III. 606 (1893). 



Amygdalus Persica, /3 Nucipersica Linnaeus, Spec. 472 (1753). 



Persica nucipersica Borkhausen, Vers. Forstbot. Beschr. 205 (1790). 



Persica laevis De Candolle, Flora Frang. IV. 487 (1805). — Seringe in De Can- 

 doUe, Prodr. II. 531 (1825). 



Amygdalus Persica, ^ nectarina Alton, Hort. Kew. II. 161 (1789). 



Prunus Persica, y necturina [sic] Maximowicz in Bull. Acad. Sci. St. PUers- 

 bourg, XXIX. 83; in Mel. Biol. XL 669 (1883). Maximowicz quotes errone- 

 ously as sjTionyms also Prunus Simonii Carriers and Persica Simonii 

 Decaisne. 

 Cultivated in China and Japan, teste Maximowicz. 



