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glanduloso-crenulata, 2-5.5 cm. longa, 0.7-2 cm. lata vel latiora 

 ad 4.5:2.3cm. magna, superne intense viridia, nitidula, glabra, 

 subtus pallidiora, laxe villosula, costa nervisque lateralibus utrin- 

 secus plerisque 5 prominulis flavescentibus glabrioribus, petiolis 

 superne sulcatis saepissime laxe villosulis ad 1 cm. longis; folia 

 novella versus apicem pleraque distinctius crenato-dentata vel 

 irregulariter sublobulato-dentata, ad 3:1.7 cm. magna, superne 

 in costa sparse lanuginosa, subtus satis dense griseo- villosula, in 

 costa nervisque tomentella, petiolis ad 8 mm. longis tomentellis. 

 Flores ad 1-3 fasciculati, fere sessiles, albi, circ. 2.5 mm. diameti- 

 entes; sepala 4-5 mm. longa, late triangularia, subito breviter 

 acuminata, utrinque satis dense lanuginosa, receptaculo dense 

 griseo-villoso-tomentello subaequilonga ; petala ovalia. apice rotun- 

 data, basi breviter unguiculata, circ. 13 mm. longa et 7 mm. lata; 

 stamina circ. 30, longiora petalis triente breviora, antheris flavis; 

 st yli 5> parte inferiore connati, paullo supra basim villosuli, stamini- 

 bus longioribus breviores; ovarium 5-loculare, loculis in stylorum 

 basi distincte product is 2-ovulatis ovulis plus minus ve superim- 

 positis vel appositis. Fructus ignoti. 



Szechuan australis: inter Kua-pie et Ta-tiao-ko, alt. circ. 2700 m., 23 Maji 

 1914, Schneider (no. 1349; typus in Herb. Arb. Arn. et Hb. Schneider). 



The old leaves of this strange Mains are very much like those of Docynia 

 Delavayi (Fr.) Schn., which are almost entire but sometimes show a similar 

 dentation. The flowers, however, of M. docynioides are different from those 

 of a true Docynia in having only 2 ovules in each carpel, while in D. Delavayi 

 as well in D. indica Decne. I have always found 4-6 ovules. Otherwise the 

 structure of the ovary of our new species agrees with that of the ovary of M. 

 Tschonoskii (Max.) Schn. which, as I have pointed out (Fedde, Rep. spec, 

 nov. 3 : 1 79. 1906) , may represent the type of a new section for which I proposed 

 the name Docyniopsis. The figure given in Sargent's Trees and Shrubs 1 : 

 Pi- 37, fig- <?. 1903 is incorrect, and has been copied by myself in my III. Handb. 

 Laubh. 1 :fig. 403/1; the cells of the ovary are distinctly protruding into the 

 base of the styles. As Rehder has stated (Sargent, I.e. 74), the separation 

 of the genus Docynia from Mains, especially from the group formerly regarded 

 as genus Eriolobus, is rather an artificial one. But, after all, I hesitate to unite 

 the true species of Docynia with Mains, and I refer to this genus all the species 

 which possess only 2 (very rarely 3) ovules in each cell of the ovary, while 

 Docynia may be distinguished by its 4-6-ovuIate carpels. 



ifi** Sorbus (Sect. Aria) Ambrozyana, sp.n.— Frutex elatus vel arbor 

 parva, habitu 5. Ariae; ramuli annotini glabri, fusco-purpurei, 





