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Henry (No. 3219; old leafy branchlets with ripe fruits); Paokang 

 Hsien, mountains, October 1901 (Veitch Exped. No. 2650; tree 7 m. 

 tall; leafy branches with flowers); without precise locality, A. Henry 

 (No. 7518; leafy branchlets with fruits). North-central China: 

 Kusan, Hugh Scallan (sterile). Northern Shensi: " In-kia-po," 

 October 1897, G. Giraldi (leafy branchlets with fruits). Chili: Pe- 

 king, Temple of Heaven grounds, September 1905, F. N. Meyer (No. 

 187; a tall, spreading Elm, with many small branches bearing small 

 leaves and flowering in fall, in winter the bark peels off in curiously 

 formed pieces; leafy branchlets with flowers); Hsiao Wu-tai-shan, alt. 

 1800 m., August 30, 1903, F. N. Meyer (No. 1385; sterile); Shunen, 

 in crevices of decomposed slate rock, August 2, 1913, F. N. Meyer (No. 

 1069; sterile). Kiangsu: Shanghai, cultivated, October 15, 1905, 

 J. G. Jack (leafy branchlets with fruits). Fokien : Amoy, H. F. Hance 

 (No. 1414; leafy branchlets with fruits). Formosa: Bankinsing, 

 A. Henry (No. 1529; tree 10 m. tall; leafy branchlets with young 

 fruits). 



NORTHEASTERN ASIA. Korea : Fusan, temple grounds, September 6, 1903, 

 C. S. Sargent (sterile); Quelpaert, " circa Hongno, rara," July 1907, U. Faurie (No. 

 2008; sterile, leaves small, narrow, acuminate); " in sepibus Hongno," June 1909, 

 Taquet (No. 3268; with a few old fruits, similar to the foregoing specimen); " in 

 sylvis Sampargtan," October 1908, Taquet (No. 1334; leafy branchlets with young 

 fruits, typical). 



JAPAN. Hondo : prov. Musashi, Tokyo, Garden Agricultural College, Octo- 

 ber 9, 1892, C. S. Sargent (leafy branchlets with flowers); Itabashi, September 6, 

 1907 (ex Herb. Sakurai; with young fruits); Hanno, September 1908 (ex Herb. 

 Yokohama Nursery Co.; with flowers); Tokyo, November 1909 (ex Herb. Yoko- 

 hama Nursery Co.; leafy branchlets with fruits); Meguro, December 1914, H. 

 Shirasawa (" bark: lenticels clear, cracked, narrow, scales small and thin "; leaf- 

 less branchlets with ripe fruits) ; same place and date, H. Shirasawa (" bark coarse, 

 lenticels not clear, scales little larger"; leafless branchlets with fruits); Momo- 

 yama, near the emperor Meiji's tomb, December 5, 1914, E. H. Wilson (No. 7856; 

 small bushy tree, 8 m. tall, girth 0.9 m., leaves said to fall early in the spring; leafy 

 branchlets with fruits) ; prov. Yamashiro, Nara, temple grounds, 1892, C. S. Sar- 

 gent (small tree, 7 m. tall; leafy branchlets with fruits). Kyushu: prov. Hizen, 

 Nagasaki, 1863, C. Maximowicz (leafy branchlets with fruits); without locahty, 

 1842, P. de Siebold (ex Herb. Zuccarini as Planera; sterile); without locaUty (ex 

 Herb. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. as Microptelea; leaf y branchlets with fruits) . 



Daveau (in Bull. Soc. Dendr. France, 1914, 21) describes besides U. Shirasawana, 

 mentioned above, U. Sieboldii (1. c. 26, fig. 1, d-d' and B-B"), which is said to 

 represent the true U.japonica Siebold in Verh. Batav. Gen. XII. 28 (nomen nudum, 

 non Sargent) (1830). I have failed to detect sufficient differences between the three 

 species proposed by Daveau even to keep them as distinct forms. The characters 

 on which he has founded his species are too variable. Of U. Sieboldii the samaras 

 are said to be larger, 15 mm. long and 8 mm. broad, the leaves are deciduous, and 

 the bark is persistent not " s'exfoliant annuellement par plaques." I have not seen 

 any fruits longer than 12 mm., although often as broad as 8-9 mm., their shape and 



