to Great Britain by the late Mr. Charles Maries in 1879, 
but most, if not all the examples now in cultivation came in 
1895. In that year Kew received plants from the Arnold 
Arboretum and from a nursery at Tokyo. It was from a 
tree of Professor Sargent’s sending, now 16 ft. high, that our 
figure was prepared, the fruit-clusters in June, 1912, the 
flowers in 1913. The tree is perfectly hardy, thriving well 
in stiff loam. In shape very graceful, for the spreading 
branches are pendulous at the ends, this is one of the most 
striking of Hornbeams in its many-ribbed leaves, and is an 
admirable tree for small gardens. 
Description.— Tyee, in Japan making a height of 50 ft., 
with a spreading head of branches and a trunk 5 ft. in 
girth; bark scaly and furrowed; branchlets hairy the first 
season. Leaves ovate-lanceolate to ovate-oblong, acute to 
acuminate, subcordate and unequal at the base, unequally 
often doubly serrate, 2-43 in. long, 3-13 in. wide; dark 
dull green and pubescent only on the midrib above, beneath 
rather paler, hairy on the midrib and in the nerve-axils; 
ribs parallel, in 16-24 pairs, very prominent beneath, 
impressed above; petiole 4-3} in. long; stipules chaffy, 
linear, 4-3 in. long, ciliate. Flowers monoecious. Male: 
Catkins slender, pendulous, pubescent, 2 in. long ;_ bracts 
narrowly ovate, hairy, subtending numerous stamens with 
short filaments; anthers purplish, hairy at the apex. 
Female: Catkins shorter than in male, terminal ; bracts 
much imbricated, enlarging and becoming membranous in 
the fruiting stage, ovate coarsely toothed, 1 in. long, the 
base infolding; ovary oblong; styles 2, suberect. Nutlet 
covered by a lobe of the bract, 1 in, long, which is attached 
to the bract by its base only. 
Fig. 1, male catkins; 2, male flowers; 2, an anther: 4, a female catkin: 
5, female flowers; 6, vertical section of a female flower; 7, base of female bi act 
with its basal lobe; 8, basal lobe of female bract with nutlet :—all enlaryed. 
