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with a caducous cobwebby tomentum, while in No. 348 from Hsing-shan Hsien 

 the leaves are glabrous when they unfold except a few hairs in the axils of the veins. 

 No. 2992 has very small fruits measuring only about 6 mm. in diameter. The 

 number of styles varies from 3 to 5. 



Sorbus meliosmifolia Rehder, n. sp. 



Arbor parva, 4-1 0-metr alls; ramuli juniores purpureo-fusci, lenti- 

 cellis parvis instruct!, glabri; gemmae ovatae, pauci-perulatae, glabrae, 

 fuscae V. fusco-olivaceae. Folia decidua, breviter petiolata, ovata v. 

 elliptico-ovata v. elliptico-oblonga, acuminata, basi late cuneata, du- 

 pliciter v. lobulato-serrata dentibus latissime triangularibus serrulatis, 

 12-16 cm. longa et 5-8 cm. lata, supra laete viridia, glabra, subtus 

 pallide viridia, sub maturitate in facie tenuissime et sparse araneoso- 

 lanuginosa v. glabrescentia, in costa nervisque glabra, nervis utrin- 

 secus 18-24 rectis in dentes exeuntibus supra impressis subtus elevatis; 

 petioli glabri, supra canaliculati, 4-7 mm. longi, crassiusculi. Corym- 

 bus fructifer glaber, 5-9 cm. diam.; pedicelli graciles, circiter 1 cm. 

 longi; fructus subglobosus v. plus minusve turbinatus, 1-1.2 cm. 

 longus, fuscus, lenticellis parvis satis dense notatus et apice cicatrice 

 calycis decidui instructus, 3-locularis; semina late ovalia v. obovata, 

 valde compressa, basi apiculata, apice saepe rotundata, 4-4.5 mm. 

 longa et 3.5 lata, brunnea. 



Western Szech'uan: Mupin, woodland, alt. 2600 m., October 



1910 (No. 4221). 



This species seems to be most closely related to S. Schwerinii Rehder and S. 

 caloneura Rehder. The former differs chiefly in the more pubescent leaves with only 

 13-16 pairs of veins, in the longer petioles and in the much smaller fruit, while the 

 latter is easily distinguished by its narrower more oblong leaves mostly broadest 

 about or above the middle and gradually narrowed at the base, with fewer veins and 

 longer petioles. 



Sorbus abiifolia K. Koch in Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. I. 249 (1864). — 

 Maximowicz in Bull. Acad. Sci. St. Petershourg, XIX. 175 (1873) ; in 

 Mel. Biol. IX. 173 (1873). — Wenzig in Linnaea, XXXVIII. 58 (1874) ; 

 in Jahrb. Bot. Gart. Mus. Berlin, II. 294 (1883). 



Crataegus alnifolia Siebold & Zuccarini in Ahh. Akad. Munch. IV. pt. II. 130 



{Fl. Jap. Fam. Nat. 1. 22) (1845). — Miquel in Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. III. 



40 (1867); Prol. Fl. Jap. 228 (1867). — Franchet & Savatier, Enum. PI. 



Jap. I. 141 (1875).! 

 Aria alnifolia Decaisne in Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, X. 166 (Mem. Fam. Pom.) 



(1874). 

 Aria tiliaefolia Decaisne, I. c. 167 (1874). 



* Crataegus alnifolia Regel in Act. Hort. Petrop. I. 125 (1871) does not belong 

 here, but is a synonym of Malus Sieboldii Rehder. 



