MORACEAE. — CUDRANIA 307 



3, 1915, F. N. Meyer (No. 1422; tall shrub, fruit red, sweetish, at 

 times leaves used as a food for silkworms; 9). Shantung: Chifu, 

 ocean bluff, September 22, 1903, C. S. Sargent (small shrub; $). 



NORTHEASTERN ASIA. Korea: Quelpaert, "in pago Hongno," August 

 5, 1908, Taquet (No. 1509; 9); same locality, June 15 and 25, 1908, Taquet (Nos. 

 1510, 1511; cf); same locality, May 4, 1908, Taquet (Nos. 1512, 1513; with 

 young flowers); same locality, "in sepibus Htepseng"?, July 20, 1911, Taquet 

 (No. 4420; 9, leaves orbicular-elliptic, about 9 cm. long). 



JAPAN. Hondo: prov. Musashi, Tokyo, Botanic Garden, 1892, C. S. 

 Sargent (cf); same locality, June 5, 1882, K. Miyahe (c?"). 



This is a variable species in the shape and the size of the leaves and in the length of 

 the peduncle of the fruits. The lateral veins of the leaves are not so numerous as in 

 the species mentioned below, but they are much more prominent on the under surface. 



In western Hupeh and in Szech'uan this is a common wayside shrub or tree; 

 in western Szech'uan, and especially in the prefecture of Kiating Fu, it is planted 

 in quantity and its leaves are used with those of Morns alba Linnaeus for feeding the 

 silkworm {Bombyx mori). Usually it is a bush or bushy tree from 3 to 8 m. high, 

 but under exceptional conditions it forms a tree 18 m. tall with a trunk 2 m. in 

 girth. The bark is pale gray and exfoliates in thin flakes of irregular shape; the 

 branches are slender rather dense and form usually a rounded or flattened crown 

 and the branchlets are spiny. The fruit is bright red and edible, but is not very 

 palatable. The colloquial name for this tree is Tsa(or Cha)-shu. 



Pictures will be found under Nos. 392, 576 of the collection of my photo- 

 graphs and also in my Vegetation of Western China, Nos. 175, 176. 



E. H. W. 



Here may be added notes on the other species known from China. 



Cudrania fruticosa Wight ex Kurz, Forest Fl. Brit. Burma, II. 434 (1877). — 

 Hooker f., Fl. Brit. Ind. V. 539 (1888). — Prain, Bengal PL 970 (1903). — Bran- 

 dis, hid. Trees, 614 (1906). 



? Balis fruticosa Roxburgh, Fl. Ind. ed. 2, III. 763 (1832). 



CHINA. Yunnan: Szemao, southeastern forests, alt. 1600 m., A. Henry 

 (No. 13156; climber, flowers yellowish; d^). 



INDIA. Eastern Bengal: " Khasia Hills, alt. 4000 ft.," J. D. Hooker & 

 T. Thomson (ex Hooker f.). Upper Burma: Ava (type, ex Kurz). 



Henry's specimen agrees well with Kurz's description. This species seems to 

 be most closely related to C. tricuspidata Bureau in its membranous leaves with 

 few strong and prominent lateral nerves. The leaves are elliptic-oblong, from 

 7 to 11 cm. long and from 3.5 to 6 cm. wide, with a rounded base and a rather abruptly 

 and slender acuminate apex. The petioles are about 9 mm. long and somewhat 

 hairy in Henry's specimen. The grayish branchlets are glabrous or looseh' hairy. 

 I do not know the 9 flowers or the fruits. In the specimen before me the flower- 

 ing branchlets are unarmed, but Kurz says " armed with curved sharp spines." 



Cudrania pubescens Tr6cul in Ann. Sci. Nat. s6r. 3, VIII. 125 (1847). — Kurz, 

 Forest Fl. Brit. Burma, II. 435 (1877). — Hooker f., Fl. Brit. Ind.V. 539 (1888).— 

 Brandis, Ind. Trees, 614 (1906). — Koorders, Exkursionsfl. Java, II. 91 (1912). 



Cudranus pubescens Miquel, Fl. Ind. Bat. 1. pt. 2, 290 (1859). 



CHINA. Yunnan: Szemao, mountains to the west, alt. 1600 m., A. Henry 

 (No. 11906; large climber; with young flowers); same locality, mountains to 



