BETULACEAE. — CARPINUS 439 



NORTHEASTERN ASIA. Korea: "in montibus Ouen-san," August 28 

 1901, U. Faurie (No. 624; fruits not yet fully ripe); Quclpaert, "in silvis Hallai- 

 san/' June 1907, U. Faurie (No. 1536; unripe fruits); same locality, May 1907, 

 U. Faurie (No. 1532; flowers); same locality, July 1909, Taquet (No. 3237; unripe 

 fruits); "in sylvis Hioton," April 14, 1908, Taquet (No. 4705; female flowers; may 

 belong to C. Tschonoskii Maximowicz). 



JAPAN. Hokkaido : prov. Oshima, near Mori, September 26, 1892, C. S. Sar- 

 gent {tree lS-17m. tall, girth 3-5.4 m., smooth white bark; sterile); Hakodate, 1861, 

 C . M azimowicz {huiting branchlets). Hondo: prov. Shimotsuke, Lake Chuzenji, 

 August 21, 1904, N. Mochizuki (fruits); same locality, roadside, October 26, 1905, 

 J. G. Jack (sterile); Nikko, October 18, 1892, J. H. Veitch (tree 7-10 m. tall; 

 fruiting branchlets); prov. Kozuke, Mt. Asama, July 14, 1904, U. Faurie (No. 

 5772; fruiting branchlets); prov. Shinano, hills near Fukushima, 1892, C. S. Sar- 

 gent (tree 7-10 m. tall; fruiting branchlets); Hashide to Otake, common, June 

 10, 1914, E. II. WUson (No. 6997; tree 10-15 m. tall, girth 0.6-1.5 m., bark 

 smooth, pale gray; young fruits); Otake-gawa, common, margin of woods, No- 

 vember 2, 1914, E. "h. Wilson (Nos. 7745, 7750; bushy tree, 7-12 m. tall, girth 

 0.5-0.75 m.; fruiting branchlets); Nojiri, September 6, 1905, J. G. Jack (fruiting 

 branchlets); prov. Musashi, Tokyo region, near Sakai station, in grove by farm- 

 house, April 9, 1914, E. H. Wilson (No. 6389; tree 15 m. tall, girth 1.2 m., bark 

 smooth, pale gray with shallow longitudinal furrows; flowers); same region, June 

 15, 1908 (ex Herb. Sakurai; young fruits); same prov., Omiya, July 15 and 17, 

 1911 (ex Herb. Sakurai; foUa satis lanceolata, basi plus minusve acuta; amenta 

 fructifera nondum matura longa); same prov., Mejiro, July 18, 1909 (ex Herb. 

 Sakura; young fruits); prov. Sagami, Hakone, 1864, Tschonoski (very young fruits, 

 also flowers named C. Tschonoskii); Miyanoshita, August 25, 1892, C. S. Sargent 

 (tree 7-8 m. tall; fruiting branchlets); prov. Suruga, base of Fuji-san, 1862, C. 

 Maximouncz (very young fruits); prov.?, "in sylvis Ubayu," July 1, 1904, U, 

 Faurie fNo. 5773; ripe fruits). Shikoku : prov. Tosa, Nanokawa, September 17, 

 1887, R. Watanahe (fruiting branchlets). Kyushu: prov. Chikugo, April 1886, 

 H. Mayr (flowers); without precise locaUty (ex Herb, Lugd.-Bat.; sterile and fe- 

 male flowers). 



The male flowers of the typical form of his species have broadly orbicular-ovate 

 very short-pointed or obtuse bracts w'hich are distinctly dark red-brown at the 

 apex and clear yellowish below. The male flowers of Faurie's No. 1532 are hardly 

 dilTerent, but the main part of their bracts is bro^vnish without such a strong con- 

 trast in color as in the flowers of the Japanese specimens before me. Winkler (1914) 

 jn describing the male flowers from Faurie's No. 1532 mentions a white cross line 

 beneath the dark apex which I did not find in the specimen in the herbarium of 

 the Arnold Arboretum. I am not quite sure whether No. 1532 does belong to 

 C, Fauriei with finely puberulous fruits or to the apparently tyi)ical C. laxiflora 

 represented by the other specimens from Korea. The island of Quelpaert is rich 

 m distinct forms. 



As far as I know the tj-pical C. laxijiora Siebold & Zuccarini does not occur in 

 Mandshuria or China. There are the following two Chinese varieties: 



Carpinus laxiflora, var. macrostachya Burkifl. See p. 425. 



Carpinus laxiflora, var. Davidii Franchet. See p. 426. 



6. Carpinus Turczaninovii Hance in Jour. lAnn. Sac. X. 203 (1869). — Maxi- 

 niowicz in Mel Biol. XL 315 (1881); in Bull Acad. Sci. Si Petershourg, XXVll. 

 53o (1882). — Franchet in Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, s6r. 2, Vll. 88, t. 10 (PI David. 

 -t- 278) (1884); in Jour, de Bot. XIII. 203 (1899), exclud. specimine Fargcsii. 



