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10 mm. longa 7 mm. lata, baud emarginata, alba; stamina 44, petalis 

 paullo breviora, ad 7 mm. longa; pistillum 9 mm. longum, glabrum, 

 stylus stamina aequans. 



Western Hupeh: Changyang Hsien, alt. 1000-1300 m., March 20, 

 1907 (No. 2813). 



Prunus mume Siebold & Zuccarini, Fl Jap. I. 29. t. 11 (1826). 

 Armeniaca mume Siebold in Verh. Batav. Genoot. XII. No. I. 69 (Syn. PI. 



Oecon.) (nomen nudum) (1827). 

 Prunus Mume a typica Maximowicz in Bull. Acad. Sd. St. Petersbourg, 

 XXIX. 84; in Mel. Biol. XI. 671 (1883). 



Western Szech'uan: west and near Wen-ch'uan Hsien, thickets, 

 alt. 1300-2500 m., September 1908 (No. 1018); alt. 1600-2000 m., 

 October 1910 (No. 4146). Western Hupeh: Ichang, wild and 

 cultivated, alt. 300-1000 m., March and September 1907 (No. 75). 



Prunus Armeniaca Linnaeus, Sp. PI. 474 (1753). 

 Armeniaca vulgaris Lamarck, Encycl. Meth. I. 2 (1780). 



Prunus Armeniaca, var. typica Maximowicz in Bull. Acad. Sd. St. Petersbourg, 

 XXIX. 86; in Mel. Biol. XI. 674 (1883). 



Western Hupeh: Ichang, cultivated, alt. 30-1000 m., March and 

 July 1907 (No. 2814), "fruit of poor flavor." Spontaneous in the 

 mountains near Peking and on mount Po-hua-shan, according to 

 Maximowicz. 



CONSPECTUS ANALYTICUS SPECIERUM ASIAE ORIENTALIS 

 SUBGEN. PRUNOPHORAE. 



Drupa ut ovarium glabra Sect. I. EUPRUNUS. 



Folia vernatione conduplicata. Petala 5-6 mm. longa. 



Dentes foliorum glandulosae. Flores praecoces. Gemmae floriferae glomer- 



atae. PediceUi circa 7 mm. longi ; stamina 32 P. consociiflora. 



Dentes omnino eglandulosae. Flores coaetanei. Gemmae floriferae singulae 

 ad utrumque latus gemmae foliiferae. Pedicelli 1.5-3 mm. longi; stamina 



22-24 (Mandshuria) P. gymnodonta. 



Folia convoluta (vernatio vero in P. platysepala ignota). 



Petala 3-4.5 mm. longa, staminibus vix aequilonga. Folia oblonga obtusa, 

 crenata, dentibus apice glanduloso-callosis. Flores coaetanei, (foliis simul 

 ad 3 cm. longis). Pedicelli 8-18 mm. longi, 3-4ni ex eadem gemma. 



P. thibetica. 

 Petala 6-11 mm. longa, staminibus paullo v. manifests longiora. Pedicelli 

 l-3ni. 

 Sepala longiora quam lata. Pedicelli (5-)7-21 mm. longi. 



Foliorum nervi 5-11, sub angulo circiter 45° aequante v. paullo minore 

 patuli. Drupa 14-27 mm. longa. Flores coaetanei v. raro praecoces. 



P. triflora. 



Foliorum nervi 3-4 insigniter erecti, supremi 2 conniventes. Drupa 



circiter 33-44 mm . longa. Flores coaetanei P. Simonii. 



