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2 m. tall, flowers white, fruit blue) ; southeast of Tachien-lu, thickets, 

 alt. 2000-2300 m., June 1908 (No. 2535; bush 7 m. tall, flowers white); 

 Wa-shan, open country, alt. 1000-1600 m., June 1908 (No. 2536^; bush 

 1.5-2 m. tall, flowers white) ; Mt. Omei, May 1904 (Veitch Exped. Nos. 

 5069, 5069-^); Nanch'uan, A. von Rosthorn (No. 1820). Yunnan: 

 south of Red River from Manmei, alt. 2000 m., A. Henry (No. 9466); 

 Mi-le district, mountain forest, A. Henry (No. 9948); Mengtsze, alt. 

 1600-2300 m., A. Henry (Nos. 9466^ 9948% 10554); Szemao, alt. 

 1600 m., A. Henry (No. 11671). Northern Shensi: "Lao-y-san," 

 June 4, 1897, G. Giraldi; " monte Kan-y-san ad ovest del Lao-y-san," 

 June 11-12, 1897, G. Giraldi. Shantung: Lau-shan, August 1907, 

 F.N. Meijer (No. 320). Chekiang: vicinity of Ningpo, 1900, D. 

 Macgregor. Fokien : Dunn's Exped., April to June 1905 (Hongkong 

 Herb. No. 2909). Formosa: South Cape, A. Henry (No. 635); Mt. 

 Taitum, May 1903, M. Faurie (No. 314). Mandshuria : Shengking, 

 June 27, 1906, F. N. Meyer. Also in Korea, Japan and the Himalaya. 



There can be no doubt that Prunus paniculata Thunberg is the Symplocos 

 crataegoides Hamilton. Professor O. Juel of Upsala kindly compared specimens of 

 Symplocos which I had sent to him with Thunberg's original specimen and pro- 

 nounced them identical; he also sent me a photograph of Thunberg's type specimen 

 which fully corroborated his statement. 



Symplocos paniculata is an exceedingly variable species of wide distribution, 

 ranging from the Himalayas through China to Korea and Japan. There seem to 

 be, however, no marked geographical varieties, and the extremes in the shape and 

 pubescence of the leaves are so closely connected by intermediate forms that it 

 seems to be useless to distinguish varieties or forms. 



Symplocos laurina VVaUich, Cat. No. 4416 (1830). 



^Myrtus laurinus Retzius, Observ. 26 (1786). 



Eugenia laurina Willdenow, Spec. 11. 967 (1799). 



Myrtus serratus Koenig ex Steudel, Nomencl. 321 (pro synon. Eugeniae 

 laurinae) (1821). 



Bobua laurina, De CandoUe, Prodr. III. 24 (1828). — Miers in Jour. Linn. 

 Soc. XVII. 303 (1880). 



Symplocos Loha Hamilton apud D. Don, Prodr. Fl. Nepal. 144 (1825). — 

 De Candolle, Prodr. VIII. 255 (1844). 



Symplocos subspinosa Hamilton ex D. Don, Prodr. Fl. Nepal. 144 (pro synon. 

 ,S'. Loha) (1825). 



Symplocos spicata Roxburgh, Cat. Hort. Beng. 40 (nomen nudum) (1814); Fl. 

 Ind. ed. 2, II. 541 (1832). —A. De Candolle, Prodr. VIII. 254 (pro parte) 

 (1844), var. ^ Zeylanica excludenda. — Wight, III. II. t. 150 (1851).— 

 Brandis, Forest Fl. Brit. Ind. 300 (1874); Ind. Trees, 441 (1906). — Kurz, 

 Forest Fl. Brit. Burma, II. 146 (1877); in Jour. As. Soc. Beng. XLVI. pt. 2, 

 239 (1877). — Clarke in Hooker f., Fl. Brit. Ind. III. 573 (1882), var. 

 attenuata excludenda. — Brand in Engler, Pflanzenr. IV.-242, 39 (1901). — 

 Leveille, Fl. Kouy-TcMou, 410 (1915). 



