ought soon to be more frequently seen as it produces 
seeds plentifully at Kew. 
Description.—Shrub or small tree, reaching 30 ft. in height; branches very 
long, slender, spreading ; twigs with numerous conspicuous lenticels, at first 
pubescent, at length becoming glabrous; buds sessile, long-conical. Leaves 
petioled, ovate-lanceolate, acute or shortly acuminate, base rounded and often 
slightly unequal, thick-serrulate, glabrous above, adpressed-pubescent on the 
nerves beneath, 23-3 in. long, 1-1} in. wide above the base; lateral nerves 
10-16 on each side of the midrib, conspicuous, nearly paralled, sunk above like 
the midrib, raised beneath ; petiole often nearly } in. long, pubescent. Male 
catkins solitary or in pairs, terminal or nearly so, cylindric, 2-23 in. long ; bracts 
peltate, 3, in. long, ;}, in. wide, glandular, ciliate, brown and membranous at 
the tip; bracteoles 2, minute, closely adpressed to the bract. Perianth 
4-lobed; lobes minute, beset with a few yellow stalked glands. Stamens 
usually 4, Female catkins (strobiles) produced in spring in erect terminal 
racemes of 2-5 together, when in flower ellipsoid, }—-} in. long, with thick, ovate 
bracts ; when in fruit solitary or in pairs, rarely more than 2, ovoid-ellipsoid, 
about # in. long, over } in. wide; peduncles up to jin. long. Nuwtlets with a 
membranous wing, often obliquely obovate, emarginate, 1-} in. long, 73-75 
in. wide at the tip. 
Tan. 8770.—Fig. 1 and 2, clusters of male flowers; 3, a single male flower ; 
4 and 5, female flowers; 6 and 7, bracts of female strobile with nutlets; 8, a 
nutlet :—all enlarged. 
