85. OLEACEE : FRAXINEX. 85 
Fraxinus obovata, Blume, in Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat.i. p.311, ex Mazim. 
in Mél. Biol. ix. p.396; Franch. et Savat. Enum. Pl. Jap. ii. p. 434. 
Fraxinus Ornus, Linn., var. Bungeana, ZZance in Journ. Bot. 1875, 
p. 133, partim. 
CurHLr: mountains near Peking (Bunge! Bretschneider! 
Bushell! Bullock! Tatarinow!). Mus. Brit.; Herb. Kew. 
Japan. 
Hance unites this with the European F. Ornus, Linn., without 
any doubt; and it does resemble specimens of that species from 
mountainous regions; but we are not satisfied of their specific 
identity. He seems, moreover, to have been under some misap- 
prehension as to the dimensions of this species. On the authority 
of Bretschneider, or rather in Bretschneider’s own words, he 
states that there were “ vastes arbres au pied du Pohuashan.” 
From specimens in the Kew Herbarium, collected by Bret- 
schneider and incorrectly named F. Bungeana, it is evident that 
this note referred to F. rhynchophylla. The present species is a 
shrub or very small tree ; and Bretschneider's note accompanying 
the specimen runs: * Small tree or shrub upon which, in North 
China, the wax insect, Coccus Pela, feeds.” 
Wenzig (Engler' Jahrb. iv. p. 170) reduces the J apanese 
F. pubinervis, Blume, of which we have seen no authenticated 
specimens, to this. 
3. Fraxinus chinensis, Roxb. Fl. Ind. ed. Carey § Wallich, i. 
p. 150; DO. Prodr. viii. p. 277; Bretschn. Early Res. p. 18, et 
Notes on Bot. Quest. p. 9; Hance in Journ. Bot. 1883, p. 323 ; 
Hanbury, Notes on Chinese Materia Medica, Science Papers, 
P. 271, cum ic. xylogr. u 
Cuexrane: Ningpo, broad and narrow leafleted varieties, and 
in flower (Cooper!) Ningpo mountains (Fauber!); Krsnesv: 
Shanghai, cultivated variety, with obovoid leaflets (herb. Han- 
bury!) ; Hurren : Nanto and mountains to the northward, in 
flower (A. Henry, 3815!); SZECHUEN: Chiating, cultivated 
(Hosie!); Mount Omei at 3000 feet (Faber !); Kwaxervva : 
near Canton (Hance, 10681! “ longicuspis ”), without locality 
(Ford, 115!); Anwner: Tungcheng Hsien, Nganching Fu 
(Scott!). Mus. Brit.; Herb. Kew. 
Western Tonking. l 
This is the white-wax tree, or Pai-la-shu, of several provinces : 
see Hosie's Report, 1885, ii. App. i. p- 25. Wenzig (Engler’s 
Jahrb. iv. 1883, p. 187) reduces F. chinensis, Roxb., to F. xan- 
