JUGLANDACEAE. 
Determined by ALFreD REHDER and E. H. WiLsoN.! 
PLATYCARYA Sieb. and Zucc. 
Platycarya strobilacea Siebold & Zuccarini in Abh. Akad. Miinch. 
III. 742, t. 5, fig. 1 (1843). — Maximowicz in Bull. Acad. Sci. St. 
Pétersbourg, sér. 3, XVIII. 64 (1873); in Mél. Biol. VIII. 640 (1873). — 
Franchet in Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, sér. 2, VII. 92 (Pl. David. L 
282) (1884). — Skan in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 495 (1899). — Pritzel 
in Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. 273 (1900). — Pampanini in Nuov. Giorn. Bot. 
Ital. n. ser. XVII. 31 (1910). — Dunn & Tutcher in Kew Bull. Misc. 
Inform. add. ser. X. 251 (Fl. Kwangtung & Hongk.) (1912).— 
Léveillé, Fl. Kouy-Tchéou, 203 (1914). 
Fortunaea chinensis Lindley in Jour. Hort. Soc. Lond. Y. 150 (1846). 
Kiangsi: Kuling, thickets, alt. 1300 m., July 31, 1907 (No. 1665; 
bush 2.5-4 m.). Western Hupeh: north and south of Ichang, 
thickets and woods, alt. 30-1300 m., June and October 1907 (No. 495; 
bush or small tree 3-12 m. tall, 0.3-1 m. girth); Ichang, glens, May 
1900, Veitch Exped. (No. 451); Chienshi Hsien, A. Henry (No. 6014); 
“ Monte di Ku-tchen,” alt. 600 m., July 1906, C. Silvestri (No. 309); 
“ lungo il fiume Han-Kiang,” alt. 700 m., June 1907, C. Silvestri 
(No. 311); “Monte Si-ho," July 1909, C. Silvestri (No. 2923). 
Yunnan: Milé district, A. Henry (No. 9937). Chekiang: vicinity 
of Ningpo, 1908, D. Macgregor, near Hanchou, June 1907, F. N. 
Meyer (No. 427). 
This is a common bush or small tree, more rarely a tree from 12-15 m. tall with 
a trunk 1 m. in girth but occasionally 20 m. tall and 2.5 m. in girth. The bark i$ 
thick, dark and deeply furrowed; the branches are moderately thick and spread- 
ing and form a rounded or flattened head. . 
: In Hupeh the colloquial name is Huan-hsiang-shu and the fruit is used to pre- 
pare a black dye for cotton goods. Photographs of this tree will be found under 
Nos. 495, 0179, 0154 of the collection of Wilson's photographs and in his Vegeta- 
tion of Western China, No. 389. 
1 Carya by C. S. Sargent. 
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