ROSACEAE. — MALUS 293 



larger white flowers with sometimes 5 styles and with longer narrowly lanceo- 

 late sepals and by the slightly lobed leaves appearing only occasionally and sparingly 

 at the end of vigorous shoots. 



This is a common plant on the lower slopes of Fuji-san and in the Nikko region 

 more especially round Lake Chuzenji. It has not yet been authentically reported 

 from other parts of Japan and is very probably peculiar to a limited area in central 

 Hondo. It is usually a low much branched tree 4 to G m. tall, with a rounded and 

 oval crown, twiggy branchlets and fragrant white flowers; more rarely it is a tree 

 from 10 to 12 m. tall with ascending-spreading branches. A picture of this tree 

 will be found under No. x 309 of the collection of my Japanese photographs. 



E. H. W. 

 10. Malus Sieboldii Rehder, n. comb. 

 Malus Toringo Siebold, Cat. Rais. 4 (nomen nudum) (1856). — De Vriese in 

 Tuinhouw-jl. III. 368, t. 17 (sine descriptione) (1857), quoad ramum fruc- 

 tiferum depictum. — Koehne, Deutsch. Dendr. 261 (1893). — Schneider, III. 

 Handb. Lauhholzk. I. 723, fig. 399 c, 400 g-hi (1906). — Koidzumi in Jour. 

 Coll. Set. Tokyo, XXXIV. art. 2, 80 {Consp. Rosac. Jap.) (1913). 

 Pyrus ? rivularis Gray in Mem. Am. Acad. n. ser. VI. 388 (non Nutt.) (1857). ^ 

 Pyrus Sieboldii Regel in hid. Sem. Hort. Petrop. 1858, 51; in Gartenfl. 

 "VIII. 82 (1859). — Kirchner in Petzold & Kirchner, Arb. Muse. 325 (1864). 

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

 Pyrus Toringo Siebold apud Miquel in Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. III. 41 (1867); 

 Prol. Fl. Jap. 229 (1867). — K. Koch, Dendr. I. 212 (1869). — Franchet 

 & Savatier, Enum. PI. Jap. I. 139 (1875); II. 350 (1879). 

 Pyrus Mengo Siebold ex K. Koch, Dendr. I. 213 (pro synon.) (1869). 

 Malus Torringo Carriere in Rev. Hart. 1870-71, 451, fig. 63, t. 

 Pyrus rivularis, /3 Toringo Wenzig in Linnaea, XXXVIII. 39 (1874). — Voss, 



Vilmorin's Blumengart. ed. 3, I. 277 (1894). 

 Pyrus Toringo, ^ incisa Franchet & Savatier, Enum. PL Jap. I. 139 (1875); 



II. 350 (1879). 

 Malus microcarpa Torringo Carriere, Stude Pomm. Microcarp.61 , fig. 11 (1883). 

 Malus baccata, subsp. Toringo Koidzumi in Tokyo Bot. Mag. XXV. 76 (1911). 



Hondo: Mt. Yatsuga-dake, moorland thickets, common, alt. 1200-1500 m., 

 September 17, 1914, E. H. Wilson (No. 7540; bush 1.5-4 m., fruit globose); I\It. 

 Tsubakura-dake, thickets, alt. 900-1200 m., Sept. 15, 1914, E. H. Wilson (No. 

 7463; bush 2-3.3 m. tall); " Jizogatake," July 1903, U. Faurie. 



The specimens quoted above agree very well with the cultivated form originally 

 introduced by Siebold into European gardens; they have the same deeply lobed, 

 pubescent leaves, small apparently yellow fruits and shrubby habit. This is the no- 

 menclatorial type of the species, though phylogenetically the following much more 

 widely distributed variety is probably to be considered the typical form of which 

 the shrubby plant with deeply divided foliage is probably only a seminal variation. 



The Japanese name for this species is " Zumi," a name applied also to the other 

 small fruited indigenous crabs, as M. baccata, var. mandshurica and M. zumi. The 

 name " Toringo," so long employed as a specific name for this plant, signifies 

 " Chinese Apple " and in Japan is applied solely to Malus prunifolia, var. rinki 



* In the Gray Herbarium there are mounted on one sheet and labeled Pyrus spec- 

 tabilis two different specimens collected by Wright near Hakodate. One is M. baccata, 

 var. mandshurica Schneider and the other is M. Sieboldii; the first is apparently 

 the plant called by Gray P. spectabilis, while the second he doubtfully referred to 

 P. rivularis Nuttall. 



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