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FAGACEAE. — CASTANEA 193 
Castanea crenata Henry in Elwes & Henry, Trees Great Brit. & Irel., IV. 854 
(pro parte, non Siebold & Zuccarini) (1909). 
Castanea sativa, var. mollissima Pampanini in Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. n. ser. 
XVII. 250 (1910). 
Western Hupeh: north and south of Ichang, woods, May, June 
and October 1907 (Nos. 550, 507°; bush or tree 0.6-16 m. tall, girth 
1-2.3 m.); same locality, May 1900 (Veitch Exped. No. 812); same 
locality, A. Henry (No. 1570); Changyang Hsien, woods, alt. 1300— 
1600 m., May and October 1907 (No. 549; tree 6-16 m. tall, girth 1-2.5 
m.); Patung Hsien, woods, alt. 1000-2000 m., June, July and October 
1907 (Nos. 344*, 3663, 548; tree 6-16 m. tall, girth 1-2.5 m.); Hsing- 
shan Hsien, woods, alt. 600-2500 m., June, July, October 1907 (Nos. 
344, 3615, 3662, 3661, 3668; tree 6-20 m. tall, girth 0.6-2.5 m.); Fang 
Hsien, woods, alt. 1300-1600 m., August and October 1907 (No. 547; 
tree 6-13 m. tall). Western Szech’uan: southeast of Tachien-lu, 
woods, alt. 1300 m., October 1908 (No. 1141°, tree 6-12 m. tall); 
Chienshi Hsien, Fei-yiieh-ling, woods, alt. 2600-3000 m., October 
1910 (No. 4581; tree 6-10 m. tall); Wa-shan woods, alt. 1000-1600 m., 
October 1908 (No. 1141; tree 6-10 m. tall); Nan-ch’uan, A. von Rost- 
horn (No. 1513). Yunnan: Mengtsze, mountains south, alt. 1600 
m., A. Henry (No. 10701; tree 5 m. tall, cultivated?). Chekiang: 
vicinity of Ningpo, 1908, D. Macgregor; near Hanchou, June 26, 1915, 
F. N. Meyer (No. 1465; tree 10-26 m. tall); Mokan-shan, alt. 550 m., 
July 21, 1915, F. N. Meyer (No. 1589; shrub 0.6-1.3 m.). Kiangsu: 
Shanghai, 1915, D. M acgregor (No. 44). Kianghuai: Nanking, June 
1, 1915, F. N. Meyer (No. 1409; tree 13 m. tall). Chili: Peking, 
1903, C. S. Sargent (seeds only); “ near San-tun-ying," May 30, 1913, 
F. N. Meyer; « Ying-tan-ho," eultivated, September 12, 1913, F. N. 
Meyer (No. 1288). Shantung: Tsing-tau, 1901, R. Zimmermann 
(No. 352). Shensi: “ Ya-tze-ko, southwest of Sian Fu,” cultivated, 
September 2, 1914, F. N. Meyer (No. 1400). Fokien: Dunn’s 
» April to June 1905 (Hongkong Herb., No. 3501). 
"Yum. M m, Mungpoo, cultivated, May 1895, J. A. Gammie (as 
This is the common Chestnut of China and is distributed from the neighborhood 
aA d in the northeast to the extreme limits of Szech'uan and Yunnan in the 
in t anc Southwest. Near Peking it is cultivated and we do not know if it is wild 
region; the specimens collected in Sikkim by Gammie are also from culti- 
and i - In western Hupeh and in Szech’uan it is an exceedingly common tree 
; 5 unquestionably indigenous. Near villages and towns where the woody vege- 
or a lon Continually cut down to furnish fuel this Chestnut is met with as a bush 
°w serub, but in the thinly populated areas it is a tree from 15 to 20 m. tall, 
