68 MR. W. J. TUTCHER ON NEW SPECIES 
CASTANOPSIS Evnzr, W. J. Tutcher. (Quercus Eyrei, Champ. 
ex Benth. in Hook. Kew Journ. Bot. vi. (1854) p. 114.) 
This plant was described in the ‘Kew Journal of Botany’ 
fifty years ago, but when its description was made out Bentham 
had not seen the female flowers or fruits, and although 
Champion states that the tree was abundant in the Wong-nei- 
cheong wood on the east side of the Happy Valley, it apparently 
has never been again collected until last March (1904). This 
appears the more remarkable when it is stated that the 
tree is still common in the wood referred to by Champion and 
that speeimens about 30 feet high overhang the publie road, 
which must have been used by various collectors from time 
to time. At the time of my visit the trees were past fruit, but I 
was successful in finding a part of an involucre which was 
sufficient to prove that the plant belongs to Castanopsis as 
constituted at present. ‘his fragment showed the iuvolucre to 
be about ? in. long with about 5 rows of compound spines. 
Better material is needed before a complete description of the 
fruit can be given. 
ALSOPHILA PODOPHYLLA, Hook., var. PROCUMBENS, Tutcher, 
n. var. 
Caudex procumbens, 10 poll. longus et 2 poll. diametro, 
frondibus pinnatis, 2-24 ped. longis, stipite 1-14 ped. longo. 
(Herb. Hongkong Bot. Gard. n. 977.) 
Specimens of this fern were found in a ravine on the south 
side of Sheko Gap, in February 1904. It was found previously 
by Balansa, no. 33 (in Kew Herbarium), in Tonkin. It struck 
me as being a new species on account of the procumbent 
caudex and the simply-pinnate fronds; but Mr. C. H. Wright, 
of the Herbarium, Royal Gardens, Kew, considers it to be a 
variety of Alsophila podophylla only. 
I may mention that there were no specimens of typical 
A, podophylla seen in the locality where these plants were 
collected. Young plants of true A. podophylla assume an upright 
position and produce bipinnate fronds at a very early stage, but 
it is several years before they bear fertile tronds. 
Portypopium (8 Puymaropes) Marurwit, Tutcher, n. sp. 
Rhizoma repens, gracile, squamis castaneis lanceolatis. Stipes 
gracilis, fere niger, glaber, 1-2 poll. longus. Frons ovata, 
