DR. H. F. HANCE ON NORTH-CHINA PLANTS. 87 
in moist places in the mountainous region around Jehol. Although 
the occurrence of this plant in Manchuria was pointed out ten 
and eight years ago respectively by Maximowiez and Regel, the 
Asiatie habitat has been overlooked by Dr. Weddell, in the revi- 
sion of his monograph for the ‘Prodromus? The specimens 
before me differ from American ones only in having smaller leaves. 
45. CORYLUS ROSTRATA, Áit., y. MANDSHURICA, A. DC.?—In mon- 
fibus ditionis Pekinensis, Apr.-Maio flf., Aug. fructibus immaturis 
onustam coll. Rev. A. David. 
If this be really identical with the Amur plant, I should be dis- 
posed to regard it as specifically distinct from the American spe- 
cies. The male catkins are either solitary or geminate, the leaves 
more ovate in outline, and with more distinct and sharp lobules 
from above the middle, of a more ferruginous hue beneath, where 
also they are thickly studded with reddish granular glands. The 
fruits are collected in fours or fives; and the involucres, in my spe- 
cimens only half an inch long, clothed with short spreading 
bristles, are less pannosely hairy than in typical C. rostrata, 
somewhat glandular, and obpyriform in shape; that is to say, 
there.is no constriction, but they taper gradually toa point. The 
young nuts are deep-chestnut-coloured and compressed. I have, 
however, neither immature fruits of the American nor ripe ones 
of the Chinese plant for comparison. 
46. Pinus BvNGEANA, Zucc. Foliis margine minutissime serrulatis, 
strobilis ad apiees ramorum solitariis geminisve ramulo ipsis multo 
breviore suffultis erectiusculis ovoideis obtusis squamis acute et con- 
spicue transverse carinatis apophysi subrhomboidea transverse com- 
pressa umbone centrali conspicue et rigide sursum uncinato. 
As Fortune mentions having sent cones of this pine to England 
ten years ago, it is strange that Parlatore in his recent recension 
of Pinaces should have been unable to describe them, or to do more 
than copy Endlicher's character. The above brief supplementary de- 
scription is drawn up from specimens with young cones, gathered 
by Dr. Williams from trees cultivated around temples in the 
neighbourhood of Peking. The bark of this remarkable tree, 
Which separates in large thinnish flakes, is white outside, as if 
lime-washed, and inside of a pale fawn-colour marked all over 
with depressions, as if pricked with a pin. Endlicher gives “the 
tree of the nine dragons ” as the Chinese name; but the characters 
attached to Dr. Williams's specimens, as representing its appella- 
tion in Peking, signify * white-fruited pine.” 
