FAGACEAE. — QUERCUS 235 
row, mostly entire, and more or less rounded at the base, and in consequence it has 
remained obscure. His material on which he founded his Quercus glauca, 8 var. 
stenophylla is much more typical of the species. It consists of leafy branches with 
oblong-lanceolate acuminate leaves, attenuate at the base, from 1.2 to 2.7 cm. 
wide, and sharply toothed above the middle; the petioles are from 1 to 1.5 cm. long 
On specimens before us the leaves vary in width from 0.8 to 3 cm., are rounded or 
attenuate at the base, and the petioles vary from 0.5 to 2.5 em. in length. The 
leaves are whiter on the undersurface than those of the very closely related 
Q. glauca Thunberg, and the branchlets are always pale gray and not dark and 
purplish as in Thunberg's species. The fruit ripens in one season. In the Gray 
Herbarium there is a specimen from the Liukiu Islands, collected by C. Wright 
(No. 307) and named Q. salicina, but it is Q. Miyagii Koidzumi (in Tokyo Bot. 
Mag. XXVI. 167 [1912]), a very distinct species. 
Pietures of Q. salicina will be found under Nos. x575, x578 of the collection of 
Wilson's Japanese photographs. 
Quercus bambusifolia Hance in Jour. Bot. XIII. 364 (non Masters, nec Q. bam- 
busaefolia Fortune) (1875). 
Quercus salicina Seemann, Bot. Voy. Herald, 415 (non Blume) (1852-57). — 
Bentham, Fl. Hongk. 321 (1861). — Miquel in Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. I. 116 
(1863-64). — A. De Candolle, Prodr. XVI. pt. 2, 100 (1864), quoad plantam 
chinensem. — Wenzig in Jahrb. Bot. Gart. Berlin, IV. 231 (1886). — Skan 
in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 519 (1899). — Dunn & Tutcher in Kew Bull. Misc. 
Inform. add. ser. X. 253 (Fl. Kwangtung & Hongk.) (1912). 
Quercus bambusaefolia Hance apud Seemann, Bot. Voy. Herald, 415, t. 91 
(pro synon.) (1852-57). — Miquel in Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. l. 116 (pro 
synon.) (1863-64). 
Cyclobalanopsis neglecta Schottky in Bot. Jahrb. XLVII. 650 (1912). 
Quercus neglecta Koidzumi in Tokyo Bot. Mag. XXX. 201 (1916). 
CHINA. Hongkong: without precise locality, common, November 5, 1903, 
C. S. Sargent; Bowen Road, January 14, 1904 (ex Herb. Hongk. Bot. Gard. No. 
US qan precise locality, C. Wilford; C. Wright (No. 466); H. F. Hance 
o. : 
We have before us a co-type of Blume’s Q. salicina, and it is obvious that Hance 
and Schottky are correct in considering the Hongkong plant distinct from the Jap- 
anese tree. The confusion was primarily caused by Blume basing his species on 
fragmentary material, but even the leafy shoots are quite different. In Blume’s 
co-type of his species the year-old shoot is pale gray, densely lenticellate and 
channelled; the leaves are slightly oblique and rounded or very abruptly narrowed 
and broadly cuneate at the base, the apex is acuminate and mucronate and the 
margin is entire or sparingly toothed above the middle; the petiole is from 5 to 12 mm. 
long. The Hongkong plant has dark purplish year-old branchlets, leaves attenuate 
at the base, rounded or more rarely obtuse at the apex, usually entire, but occasion- 
ally with one or two obscure rounded teeth, and petioles from 2to 5 mm. long. With 
complete material the differences are very great, but it is only necessary to mention 
here that in the Hongkong plant the fruit is very much larger and does not ripen 
until the second season, while the Japanese plant ripens its fruit in one season. 
Moreover, there is no species of Quercus of the section Cyclobalanops known from 
Japan in which the fruit does not ripen until the second year. There has been con- 
siderable confusion about Hance's name, but there never has been any doubt as to 
the plant he applied it to. Since Fortune's Q. bambusaefolia is à nomen nudum, and 
Master's Q. bambusifolia is a synonym of Q. myrsinaefolia Blume, Hance's name 
remains valid under the International rules. 
