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Sta., whence I saw a sterile branchlet under No. 35301). Korea: Seoul, com- 

 mon, May 24, 1901, U. Faurie (No. 583; with young fruits); same locality. East 

 Palace Park, September 24, 1905, J. G. Jack (with fruits); same locaHty, May 

 1909, Taquet (No. 2537; with flowers); Quelpaert, "in sylvis Hallaisan," alt. 

 1300 m., August 1909, Taquet (No. 3215; sterile); same locahty, alt. 1200 m., 

 July 1909, Taquet (No. 3267; sterile). 



JAPAN. Hondo: prov. Mutsu, " pagis circa Aomori," May 10, 1904, U. 

 Faurie (No. 5879; with flowers); prov. Kozuke, Asama, July 1904, U. Faurie (No. 

 5878; with fruits) ; prov. Shiuano, Nagasendo, banks of Kiso-gawa near Agematsu, 

 October 25, 1892, C. S. Sargent (sterile, leaves very large, measuring up to 16 cm. 

 in length and 8.5 cm. in width); Nagano, September 1, 1905, J. G. Jack (with 

 fruits); prov. Musashi, Tokyo, April 27, 1882, K. Miyabe (with flowers); same 

 locaUty, May 1907, June 1909 (ex Herb. Yokohama Nursery Co.; with flowers 

 and young fruits); same locaHty, April 12, 1913 (ex Herb. Sakurai; " riesengrosser 

 Baum "; with flowers); same locaHty, common, April 19, 1914, E. H. Wilson (No. 

 6377; tree 13-33 m. tall, girth 0.9-6 m., bark Hght gray; with flowers). 



The species is not mentioned by Komarov in his Flora Manshuriae, and I beHeve 

 Meyer's specimen from Mukden came from a cultivated plant. 



Pictures of this tree will be found under Nos. x211, x213, x247, x610, x668 of the 

 collection of Wilson's Japanese photographs. 



Here may be added the following genus not yet collected in central China. 



HEMIPTELEA Planch. 



Hemiptelea Davidii Planchon in Compt. Rend. Acad. Paris, LXXIV. 132, 1496 

 (1872), fide Planchon in De Candofle, Prodr. XVII. 165 (1873). — Maximowicz in 

 Bull. Acad. Sci. St. Petersbourg, 289 (1873); in Mel. Biol. IX. 22 (1873). — Fran- 

 chet in Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, ser. 2, VII, 78, t. 9 {PI. David. I. 268 (1884). — 

 PaHbin in Act. Hort. Peirop. XVIII. 190 (Consp. Fl. Kor. II. 44) (1900). — Schnei- 

 der, III. Handb. Laubholzk. I. 224, fig. 141 a-b (1904). 



Planera Davidii Hance in Jour. Bot. VI. 333 (1868). 



Hemiptelea Davideana Priemer in Bot. Jahrb. XVII. 455 (1893). 



Zelkova Davidii Hemsley in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 449 (1894). — Komarov 



in Act. Hort. Petrop. XXII. 90 {Fl. Mansh. II.) (1903). — Nakai in Jour. 



Coll. Sci. Tokyo, XXXI. 188 {Fl. Kor. II.) (1911). 

 Zelkova Davidiana Bean,i Trees & Shrubs Brit. I si. II. 694 (1914). 



CHINA. Chekiang: Zah-kou near Hangchou, in earth banks, July 3, 1915, 

 F. N. Meyer (No. 1501 ; scrubby, growing into a tree, as hedge material here and 

 there; sterile). Kiangh uai : Nanking, in banks of soil and debris, May 31, 1915, 

 F. N. Meyer (No. 1407; shrub or small tree; with young fruits). Chili: near 

 San-tun-ying, in loess banks, June 2, 1913, F. N. Meyer (No. 990; mostly as a 

 shrub; sterile) ; Wei-chang, W. Purdorn (sterile) ; north of Jehol, 1910, W. Purdom 

 (No. 296; sterile). 



NORTHEASTERN ASIA. Mandshuria: " circa oppidum Mukden in silva 

 FuHm," September 27, 1897, V. Komarov (with ripe seeds). Korea: Seoul, Sep- 

 tember 24, 1905, J. G. Jack (with fruits) ; same locaHty, May 1909, Taquet (No. 



1 Bean cites Franchet as author, but I do not find that Franchet has published 

 such a combination. Hemsley seems to be the author of the combination Zelkova 

 Davidii, because Bentham & Hooker, Gen. PI. III. 353 (1883), cited by Hemsley, do 

 not mention any specific name. 



