with which a little peat has been mixed thrive best. Our 
young trees are of rather thin, open habit, making, at present, 
annual shoots 1-3 ft. in length. Their distichous mode of 
branching adds to the peculiar elegance and distinctiveness 
of their appearance. Propagation is readily effected by 
means of layers, but it is doubtful whether trees so raised 
will make such well-grown specimens as those obtained 
from seed, 
Descriprion.— Tree, often of considerable size; at high 
elevations a small tree or shrub; branches sparingly white- 
lenticelled; twigs densely covered with erect hairs; buds 
ovoid, somewhat compressed, under 2 lin. long, glabrous, 
with few scales. Leaves oblong-ovate, elliptic-ovate, or 
ovate, 1-1 in., rarely 13 in. long, 3-8 lin., rarely 1 in. wide, 
tip rounded, base unequal, truncate or slightly cordate, 
irregularly closely crenate denticulate, occasionally ob- 
scurely lobed, dark green above, paler beneath, with 
minute erect hairs on both sides, plicate when young; 
nerves usually 4 on each side, petiole 2 lin. long or less, 
pubescent. Male flowers axillary, solitary or occasionally 
geminate, shortly peduncled. Perianth campanulate, 2 lin. 
long, often 5-lobed; lobes .wide ovate, sparingly ciliate, 
about 1 lin, long, one usually smaller than the others. 
Stamens 10-29, exserted; anthers linear-oblong, 1-14 lin. 
long, distinctly apiculate. emale flowers axillary, sessile. 
Fruit with a 4-valved involucre; valves oblong, about 
3 lin. long, sparingly ciliate, each with 3-5 very short 
transverse scarious reddish scales. Nutlets 3, about 2 lin, 
long, the central 2-winged, the two lateral 3-winged. 
Fig. 1, portion of a leaf; 2, male flowers ; 3, stamen; 4, bract; 5, perianth 
of a female flower; 6, the same, laid open; 7, ovaries, the involucre removed ; 
8, fruit, showing involucre and nutlets; 9, nutlet :—al/ enlarged. 
