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(1933). Syns : Pints ringo sublobata Zabel ; Mains ringo X toringo 

 (f.) sublobata et (f.) trilobata Zabel. 



Introd. into cultivation by the Arnold Arboretum. According 

 to Rehder (loc. cit.) of unknown origin probably grown from seed 

 brought by C. S. Sargent from Japan in 1892. The name refers to 

 slightly lobed leaves. 



Locations: (C), (0). 



M. toringoides (Rehd.) Hughes 



Rehder in Sargent, PL Wilson. 2: 286 (1915) as Malus transi- 

 toria var. toringoides. Hughes in Kew Bull. 1920 : 205, fig. Ba-e 

 (1920). Illus: Hughes (loc. cit, p. 207).— FL; Stapf in Bot. 

 Mag. cxlviii. t. 8948 (1923). Syns: Pyrus transitoria var. toringo- 

 ides Bailey; Pyrus toringoides Osborn; Sinomalus toringoides 

 Koidzumi. 



Introd. in England by James Veitch & Sons, Ltd., Chelsea, in 

 1904 and U.S.A. by the Arnold Arboretum in 1908, from seed 

 collected by E. H. Wilson in west Szechwan, China. Habitat: 

 western China. Type plant Arnold Arboretum No. 17475 grown 

 from Wilson No. 1285. 



Location: (C). 



M. toringoides cv. Macrocarpa* 



Raised from M. toringoides seed collected at the Arnold Ar- 

 boretum by F. C. Stern, Goring-by-the-Sea, Sussex, England. 

 Introd. into U.S.A. by the Arnold Arboretum in 1939 from scions 

 received in 1933 from Stern. Differs from species by having larger 

 fruit and leaves with less deeply cut lobes. 



Description: Flowers; single, expanding buds pink or pinkish 

 white, open white, approx. 2.5 cm. across. Fruit; orange yellow 

 and red with bluish bloom, approx. 2.5 cm. in diam. 



Locations: (A), (B), (C), (L), (S). 



M. transitoria (Batal.) Schneid. 



Batalin in Acta Hort. Petrop. 13: 95 (1893) as Pyrus transi- 

 toria. Schneider, 111. Handb. Laubh. 1: 726 (1906) ; and in Fedde. 

 Repert. 3: 178 (1906). Illus: Kew Bull. 1920, p. 207-FL; Rehder 

 and Wilson in Jour. Arnold Arb. ix. pi. 12 (1928). — Hab. Syns: 

 Pyrus malus transitoria Anon, in Garden 86: 485, fig. (1922); 

 Sinomalus transitoria Koid. 



Introd. into U.S.A. by the Arnold Arboretum from seed collected 

 in 1911 by William Purdom in Yenan-fu, Shensi, China. Habitat: 

 northwestern China. 



