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Western Hupeh: cultivated around Ichang, alt. 600-1200 m., 

 April 1907 (No. 2990; bush 1-2 m. tall, flowers red); without precise 

 locality, cultivated, April 1900 (Veitch Exped. No. 129); without 

 precise locality, A. Henry (No. 5249). Hondo : Tokyo, Botanic Gar- 

 dens, cultivated, April 5, 1914, E. H. Wilson (No. 6365, bush 0.6-1 m. 

 tall, flowers white, tinged pink without; No. 6366, flowers scarlet; 

 No, 6367, bush, flowers white, suffused pink); Tokyo, cultivated, 

 March 29, 1914, E. H. Wilson (No. 6340, bush 1-2 m. tall, flowers 

 salmon; No. 6341, bush 1-2 tall, flowers white); Lake Chuzenji, 

 Lakeside Hotel, cultivated, alt. 15 m., June 3, 1914, E. H. Wilson (No. 

 6803, bush 1 m. tall, flowers bright red). Kyushu : Island of Yaku- 

 shima, cultivated, February 26, 1914, E. H. Wilson (No. 6099, bush 

 1-2 m., flowers white, suffused pink); Island of Tanegashima, Febru- 

 ary 27, 1914, E. H. Wilson (No. 6136, bush 1-2 m., flowers soft red). 



Of the typical form of C. lagenaria I have seen only specimens from cultivated 

 plants, though it probably occurs in central China in a wild state; it is much 

 cultivated all over China and in Japan and was introduced into England prob- 

 ably from China by C. F. Greville about 1800. It has always been confused 

 with C. japonica, first described by Thunberg as Pyrus japonica, which differs in 

 its smaller crenate and obtuse quite glabrous leaves and in the smaller brick red 

 flowers with glabrous styles. In C. lagenaria, which is a taller plant, the styles 

 are either glabrous or pubescent and the color of the flower varies from white 

 to deep scarlet, the leaves are sharply serrate and are either quite glabrous or 

 brownish pubescent on the midrib below while young. 



Chaenomeles angusiifolia Koidzumi in Jour. Coll. Sci. Tokyo, XXXIV. art. 2, 97 

 (1913j is probably only a form of this species with narrow leaves and white flowers. 

 Also C. eugenioides Koidzumi in Tokyo Bot. Mng. XXIX. 160 (1915) with pink 

 flowers and globose fruits is probably only a garden form of C. lagenaria. 



Chaenomeles lagenaria, var. cathayensis Rehder, n. var. 



Pyrus cathayensis Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXIII. 256 (1887), quoad 



plantam hupehensem. 

 Cydonia cathayensis Hemsley in Hooker's Icon. XXVII. t. 2657-58 (1900). — 



Bean, Trees & Shrubs Brit. Isl. 1. (1914). 

 Chaenomeles cathayensis Schneider, III. Ilandb. Laubholzk. I. 730, fig. 405 



p-p>, 406 ^f (1906). 



Western Hupeh: north and south of Ichang, wild and cultivated, 

 alt. 300-1200 m., March 20, 1907 (No. 2991, bush 1-3 m. tall, flowers 

 bluish-pink) ; Changyang Hsien, commonly cultivated as a hedge- 

 plant, alt. 300-1200 m., September 1907 (No. 377, fruits only; bush 

 1-2 m. tall, fruit yellow); Nanto, April 1900 (Veitch Exped. No. 410). 



This variety differs from the type in its narrower more closely and sharply 

 seiTulate leaves more or less brownish pubescent on their underside, at least on the 

 midrib. The style seems to be always villous at the base. This is the common 



