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wild form in central China and is probably the phylogenetic type of this species. 

 The Cliinese call it mu-kua and value the fruits for their fragrance and keep them 

 as an ornament in their houses. 



Chaenomeles lagenaria, var. Wilsonii Rehder, n, var. 



Cydonia Mallardii in Gard. Chron. ser. 3, LVIII. 158 (nomen nudum) (1915), 

 non Chaenomeles japonica Mallardi Carri^re. 



A typo recedit foliis subtus tomento lanuginoso fulvo denso sed 

 detergibili obtectis. 



Western Szech'uan: Mo-hsi-mien, village southeast of Tachien- 

 lu, alt. 1800 m., October 1910 (No. 4120, type; bush 4-6 m. tall, fruit 

 golden and red) ; same locality, cultivated, November 1908 (No. 1362, 

 fruits only; bush 2-3 m. tall). 



At the first glan ce this Quince looks very distinct from C. lagenaria, var. cathayensis 

 on account of the dense fulvous tomentum of the underside of its leaves, but as the 

 young seedlings raised from seed of the type plant are quite glabrous, the constancy 

 of tliis character seems doubtful. A plant very close to this variety seems to have 

 been introduced before, as the leaves of a specimen collected in October 1881 at 

 Kew, where it was cultivated at that time as Cydonia sinensis, show a similar, though 

 much slighter tomentum. 



Chaenomeles japonica Lindley * apud Spach, Hist. VSg. II. 159 (pro parte) 

 (1834), quoad synon. " Pyrus japonica Thunberg." — Makino in Tokyo Bot. Mag. 

 XXII. 63 (1908). — Koidzumi in Jour. Coll. Sci. Tokyo, XXXIV. art. 2, 95 

 {Consp. Rosac. Jap.) (1913). 



Pyrus japonica Thunberg, Fl. Jap. 207 (1784). — Willdenow, Spec. II. 1020 



(1803). — K. Koch in Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. I. 248 (1864). — Miquel in 



Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. III. 40 (1867); Prol. Fl. Jap. 228 (1867). — Franchet 



& Savatier, Emim. PI. Jap. I. 138 (1875). 

 Cydonia japonica Persoon, Syn. II. 40 (1807). -De Candolle, Prodr. II. 638 



(pro parte) (1825). 

 Chaenomeles japonica, ^ alpina Maximowicz in Bull. Acad. Sci. St. Peters- 



bourg, XIX. 168 (1873); in Mel. Biol. IX. 163 (1873). 

 Chaenomeles japonica, y pygmaea Maximowicz in Bull. Acad. Sci. St. P4ters- 



bourg, XIX. (1873); in Mel. Biol. IX. 163 (1873). 

 Pyrus Maulei Masters in Gard. Chron. n. ser. I. 756, fig. 159 (1874); II. 740, 



fig. 144 (1874). — Hooker f. in Bot. Mag. CX. t. 6780 (1884). 

 Pyrus japonica, /3 alpina Franchet & Savatier, Enum. PI. Jap. I. 139 (1875). 

 Cydonia Maidei Moore in Flor. & Pomol. 1875, 49, t. ; Nicholson, Diet. Gard. 



I. 419 (1884). 

 Chaenomeles japonica, var. Maulei Lavall^, Arb. Segrez, 110 (1877). 

 Chaenomeles alpina Koehne, Gatt. Pomac. 28, t. 2, fig. 23 a-c (1890). — Dippel, 



Handb. Laubholzk. III. 408 (1893). 



1 Usually Lindley in Trans. Linn. Sac. XIII. 97 (1822) is quoted for this com- 

 bination, but in this place Lindley gives a generic description of Chaenomeles and 

 quotes Pyru^ japonica Thunberg as the type of his new genus without proposing a 

 specific name. 



