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FAGACEAE. — CASTANOPSIS 201 
Western Szech'uan: Mupin, woods, alt. 1000-1300 m., October 
1908 (No. 1096, type; fruits); Wa-shan, woods, alt. 1300-2400 m., 
June and October 1908 (Nos. 3622, co-type c&', 10969); Hungya Hsien, 
Wa-wu-shan, woods, alt. 1000-2000 m., September 12, 1908 (No. 
1096"); Mt. Omei, alt. 2000-2300 m., October 1903, May 1904 (Veitch 
Exped. Nos. 4508, 5188). Yunnan: Mengtsze, forests, alt. 2300 m., 
A. Henry (No. 10610). 
_ This is a very distinct species, well characterized by its winter-buds, its leaves, 
its solitary, axillary male aments, its short fruiting spike, its zonate-ridged strongly 
echinate fruit and by its pubescent, pyramidate nut, with an unusually broad basal 
scar. It may be contrasted with C. orthacantha Franchet, which we have not seen, 
but which, according to the description, has a somewhat similar fruit, but has differ- 
ently shaped and thicker leaves, glabrous and glaucescent on both surfaces, and 
fasciculate male aments. 
This new species is common in woods on the lower slopes of Mt. Omei and the 
Tegions to the immediate west and south, and is a handsome, umbrageous tree. 
A picture will be found under No. 323 of the collection of Wilson’s photographs 
and also in his Vegetation of Western China, No. 149. 
Castanopsis caudata Franchet in Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, sér. 3, 
VII. 87 (Pl. David. I. 271) (1884); in Jour. de Bot. XIII. 196 (1883).— 
Skan in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 522 (1899).—Seemen in Bot. Jahrb. 
XXIX. 287 (1900). 
Kiangsi: Kuling, thickets, alt. 1300 m., July 31, 1907 (No. 1522; 
bush 4 m., densely branched). 
_ Our specimen is from the type locality and agrees well with Franchet’s descrip- 
tion, except that the leaves can scarcely be said to be glaucescent. This plant is 
not very common on the Lushan mountains and is usually a large, much branched 
ush or small tree. The leaves are coriaceous and shining and all parts of the plant 
are glabrous. 
OSs sclerophylla Schottky in Bot. Jahrb. XLVII. 638 
Quercus chinensis Abel, Narr. Journ. China, 165, t. 363 (1818). — Forbes in Jour. 
Bot. XX. 81 (1884). — Franchet in Nuov. Arch. Mus. Paris, sér. 2, VII. 85 
(Pl. David. I. 275) (1884). — Skan in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 509 (1899). 
cus sclerophylla Lindley in Lindley & Paxton, Flower Gard. I. 59, fig. 37 
(1850-51). — Walpers, Ann. Bot. III. 384 (1852-53). — Masters in Gard. 
Chron. n. ser. 1. 632 (1874). — Hance in Jour. Bot. XII. 242 (1874); XIII. 
366 (1875); XX. 294 (1882). — Forbes in Jour. Bot. XXII. 86 (1884). —Skan 
in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 520 (1899). — Seemen in Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. 
= ues — Dunn & Tutcher in Kew Bull. Misc. Inform. add. ser. X. 
- Kwangtung & Hongk.) (1912). 
Quercus cuspidata, xu si a z “a Candolle, Prodr. XVI. pt. 2, 103 
â (1864). — Hance in Jour. Bot. XIII. 366 (1875). 
astanopsis chinensis Schottky in Bot. Jahrb. XLVII. 687 (1912). 
Synaedrys sclerophylla Koidzumi in Tokyo Bot. Mag. XXX. 187 (1916). 
