234 WILSON EXPEDITION TO CHINA 
A specimen in the Gray Herbarium collected in the Liukiu Islands by C. Wright 
(No. 306) differs markedly from the type in the under surface of the leaves, which 
are clothed with a loose floccose gray tomentum. 
Franchet reduces this species to a variety of Q. Ilex Linnaeus and makes other 
Chinese Oaks varieties of Linnaeus’s species. In this he is followed by Skan, but 
both have overlooked the important character of the fruit. In Q. [lex it matures in 
one season, but in all the Asiatic Oaks referred to it as varieties by Franchet and 
Skan the fructification is biennial. Von Seemen (in Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. 289 (1900)) 
refers specimens collected by A. von Rosthorn at Nanch'uan, southeastern Szech’uan, 
to Q. Ilex and remarks that they resemble Kotschy’s var. lanceolata. His brief 
description suggests to us a species very closely related to Q. Franchetii Skan. 
We have seen no specimen of Quercus from China or any other part of eastern Asia 
that is in any sense referable to Q. Ilex Linnaeus, and we are strongly of the opinion 
that neither the species nor any of its varieties or forms grow there. Franchet and 
other authors evidently attached too much importance to the general appearance 
of the leaves and overlooked important characters in the fruit. In China there are 
a number of different species of Quercus in which the leaves exhibit the same varia- 
tions as are found on those of Q. Ilex. They are spiny or entire, pubescent or 
glabrous, according to the different ecological conditions under which they grow, and 
these same variations occur on different species of Oaks native of western North 
America. 
Quercus salicina Blume, Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. IV. 305 (1850). — A. De Can- 
dolle, Prodr. XVI. pt. 2, 100 (pro parte) (1864). — Franchet & Savatier, Enum. Pl. 
Jap. I. 449 (1875). — Matsumura, Ind. Pl. Jap. Il. pt. 2, 28 (1912) exclud. synon. 
Quercus glauca, 8 var. stenophylla Blume, Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. IV. 303 
(1850). — Franchet & Savatier, Enum. Pl. Jap. 1. 448 (in nota) (1875). — 
Matsumura, Ind. Pl. Jap. II. pt. 2, 27 (1912). 
Cyclobalanops salicina Oersted in Kjoeb. Vedensk. Meddel. XVIII. 70 (1866). 
Quercus myrsinaefolia Shirasawa, Icon. Ess. For. Jap. I. 59, t. 31, fig. 13-24 
(non Blume) (1900). 5 
Quercus stenophylla Makino in Tokyo Bot. Mag. XXIV. 17 (1910). — Nakai 
in Tokyo Bot. Mag. XXIX. 62 (1915). 
Quercus stenophylla, var. salicina Makino in Tokyo Bot. Mag. XXIV. 54 (1910). 
Cyclobalanopsis stenophylla Schottky in Bot. Jahrb. XLVII. 657 (1912). 
Quercus longinuz Hayata in Jour. Coll. Sci. Tokyo, XXX. art. 1, 292 (Mat. 
Fl. Formosa) (1911), fide Nakai. 
Quercus pseudo-myrsinaefolia, Hayata, l. c. 295 (1911), fide Nakai. 
eo stenophylla, var. salicina Schottky in Bot. Jahrb. XLVII. 657 
Quercus angustissima Makino in Tokyo Bot. Mag. XXVII. 114 (1913). 
NORTHEASTERN ASIA. Korea: Quelpaert, Hongno, August 1907, U. 
— BAG 1529); same locality, May and October 1909, Taguet (Nos. 2558, 
li 1). 
JAPAN. Kyushu: prov. Osumi, island of Yakushima, forests, alt. 300-1000 
m., February 20, 1914, E. H. Wilson (No. 6033; tree 10-20 m. tall, girth 1.5-2.3 
m.); Mt. Kirishima, woods, October 1914, T. Miyoshi (No. 7868 ex E. H. Wilson); 
without locality, ex Herb. Bot. Gard. Tokyo. Shikoku: prov. Tosa, Nanokawa 
April 25, 1888, K. Watanabe. Hondo: prov. Musashi, Takao-san, September 
24, 1914, E. H. Wilson; without locality, ex Herb. Lugd.-Bat. (co-type of Quercus 
salicina Blume; in Herb. Gray); without locality, ex Herb. Lugd.-Bat. (co-type of 
Q. glauca, 8 var. stenophylla Blume; in Herb. Gray). 
Blume founded this species on a fragment the leaves of which are unusually nar- 
