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NORTHEASTERN ASIA. Korea: Port Hamilton, 1859, C. Wilford (sine 

 num. in Herb. Gray; with very young fruits); Fusan, temple grounds, September 

 5, 1903, C. S. Sargent (large tree; leaves more or less obovate, above the middle 

 very coarsely crenate-dentate) ; same locahty, September 6, 1903, C. S. Sargent 

 (sterile; leaves large, ovate); Chinnampo, September 17, 1905, /. G. Jack (sterile, 

 apparently from a young plant, leaves similar to those of the preceding specimen) ; 

 Seoul, July 1906, U. Faurie (No. 904; with young fruits); Quelpaert, " in pagis," 

 October 1907, Taquet (No. 344; with ripe fruits); same locahty, "in pagis," 

 June 1909, Taquet (No. 3211; with young fruits); same locahty, " in pagis Tai- 

 pyang (?)," July 1909, Taquet (No. 3212; sterile) ; same locahty, " in pago Hongno," 

 July 1910, Taquet (No. 4417; with unripe fruits); same place, April 10, 1908, 

 Taquet (No. 4702; with flowers). 



JAPAN. Hondo: prov. Rikuzen, Sendai, cultivated, August 27, 1905, J. G. 

 Jack (with unripe fruits); prov. Iwashiro, Fukura, September 13, 1892, J. H. 

 Veitch (with fruits); prov. Musashi, Tokyo, April 18, 1905 and September 17, 1911 

 (ex Herb. Sakurai; flowers and with fruits); same locahty, April 19, 1882, K. 

 Miyabe (with flowers); same locahty. May 23, 1888, K. Miyabe (with very young 

 fruits); same locahty. May 1908 (ex Herb. Yokohama Nursery Co.; with cf flow- 

 ers); same locahty, June 1908 (ex Herb. Yokohama Nursery Co.; with 9 flowers); 

 same locahty, Arakawa, common, April 20, 1914, E. H. Wilson (No. 6477; tree 

 10-20 m. tall, girth 0.9-2.4 m., bark gray, smooth; with old flowers); Yokohama, 

 1862, C. Maximowicz (with flowers and with ripe fruits) ; prov. Sagami, road from 

 Atami to Odawara, August 25, 1892, C. S. Sargent (large tree, pale bark; with 

 fruits); prov. Idzu, "Simodah," May 17, 1855, C. Wright (a spreading tree; with 

 young fruits); " Simoda," S. W. Williams & J. Morrow (with young fruits); prov. 

 Mimasaka, August 6, 1903, S. Arimoto (with fruits). Kyushu: prov. Hizen, 

 Nagasaki, 1862, R. Oldham (No. 722; with unripe fruits; without No., flowering 

 branchlets); same locahty, common, June 5, 1899, U. Faurie (No. 3653; with 

 young fruits); near Naja near Nagasaki, November 12, 1903, C. S. Sargent (with 

 ripe fruits); prov. Buzen, Noji, September 10, 1905, J. G. Jack (with ripe fruits); 

 without locality (ex Herb. Lugd.-Bat., distributed as C. Willdenovnana Schultes; 

 with fruits). 



This species is well distinguished by the characters given in the key on p. 275. 

 The leaves of vigorous plants usually are large and somewhat resemble in their 

 shape those of C. jessoensis Koidzumi. On vigorous shoots the pubescence of the 

 leaves is not only very rough on both sides, but also the shape of the leaves is often 

 variable, as they are often abruptly contracted below their middle into a more or 

 less distinctly caudate, mostly entire narrow-lanceolate apex; there may be every 

 transition from this lyrate form to the normal shape. Such a change of shape 

 occurs in the leaves of young plants in different (probably in most of the) species 

 of Celtis. 



The stones of C. sinensis are more or less irregularly pitted and ribbed or some- 

 times rather smooth (see Taquet's No. 344). 



To this species seems closely related, according to the author's description, C. 

 honinensis Koidzumi (in Tokyo Bot. Mag. XXVII. 183 [1913]), from the Ryukyu 

 (Liukiu) Islands, Okinawa. The young branchlets are " ferrugineo-tomentosi 

 mox glabri," the leaves " membranacea, nascentia utrinque rufo-pubescentia cite 

 glabra . . . usque 14 cm. longa, 6 cm. lata; petiolis cito glabris 10-5 mm. longis." 

 The fruit is " camea 6-7 mm. in diametro; pedicelhs 10-14 mm. longis sohtariis 

 V. geminis, endocarpio laeve." The main differences from C. sinensis seem to be 

 the large leaves and smooth stones. The only specimen before me which some- 

 what agrees with the description is Jack's specimen from Chinnampo, but neither 

 the branchlets nor the petioles are glabrous, and there are no fruits. 



