ROSACEAE. — MALUS 285 



Western Hupeh: Fang Hsien, thickets, alt. 1300-2000 m., May 

 14 and November 1907 (No. 2980, type; bush 2-5 m. tall, flowers rosy 

 pink, very beautiful); Patung Hsien, October 1900 (Veitch Exped. 

 Seed No. 766). 



This is a very beautiful form resembling in the color of its flowers M. Halliana, 

 but with a greater profusion of flowers. 



In the mountains of western Hupeh this form and the type are exceedingly 

 common in open country, in wayside thickets and on the margin of woods; they are 

 also occasionally cultivated. The leaves of both are collected and dried and are 

 used locally in preparing a beverage which is drunk as a substitute for Tea. 



E. H. W. 



Malus Halliana Koehne, Gatt. Pomac. 27 (1890); Deutsche Dendr. 

 261 (1893). — Dippel, Handb. Lauhhohk. III. 406 (1893). — Rehder 

 in Sargent, Trees & Shrubs, I. 35, 1. 18 (1902). — Schneider, III. Handb. 

 Laubholzk. I. 719, fig. 397 o, 398 e-f (1906). — Koidzumi in Jour. Coll. 

 Sci. Tokyo, XXXIV. art. 2, 85 {Consj). Rosac. Jap.) (1913). 



Malus Halliana in Gard. XXII. 162 (nomen nudum) (1SS2). 



Pyrus Malus Parkmanii Temple in Gardn. Monthly, XXIX. 35 (1887). 



Pyrus Parkmani Hort. ex Sargent in Garden & Forest I. 152 (pro synon.) 



(1888). 

 Pyrus Halliana Hort. ex Sargent, 1. c. (pro sjTion.) (1888). 

 Pyrus Halliana Voss, Vilmoriti's Blumengdrt. I. 277 (1896). — Ascherfson & 



Graebner, Syn. Mitteleur. Fl. VI. abt. 2, 71 (1906). — Bean, Trees & Shrubs 



Brit. Isl. II. 284 (1914). 

 Pyrus spectabilis Tanaka, Useful PI. Jap. 156, t. fig. 634 (non Aiton) (1895). — 



Makino in Tokyo Bot. Mag. XX. 80 (1906), excludendis synon. omnibus. 

 Pyrus floribunda Koidzumi in Tokyo Bot. Mag. XXV. 75 (non Siebold) (1911), 



excludendis synon. omnibus " P. spectabilis Makino " excepto; in Jour. 



Coll. Sci. Tokyo, XXXIV. art. 2, 82 {Consp. Rosac. Jap.) (1913), excludendis 



synon. et var. Scheideckeri et var. pendula. — Matsumura, Ind. PI. Jap. II. 



pt. 2, 204 (1912), quoad nomen Jap. " Kaido " et synon. " P. spectabilis 



Makino." 

 Malus floribunda, var. Parkmanni Koidzumi in Tokyo Bot. Mag. XXV. 76 



(1911); in Jour. Coll. Sci. Tokyo, XXXIV. 2, 83 (Consp. Rosac. Jap.) (pro 



forma) (1913). 



Western Szech'uan: Tachien-lu, thickets, alt. 2000-2500 m., 

 October 1910 (No. 4172; bush 3-6 m. tall, fruit globose, red) ; same lo- 

 cality, 1904 (Veitch Exped. Seed No. 1720). Japan (cultivated): 

 Tokyo, April 1, 1914, E. H. Wilso7i (No. 6360, cultivated and known 

 as Kaido) ; same locality, April 19, 1882, K. Miyabe (as Pijrus spec- 

 tabilis); Subashira, in garden, alt. 600 m., May 8, 1914, E. H. Wilsoji 

 (No. 6664); "Hirosaki, in hortis," May 1914, U. Faurie (No. 6051, 

 as Pyrus spectabilis); Tokyo, Sakurai's garden, April 21, 1905, K. 

 Sakurai (as M. floribunda). 



