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brown hairs and circled midway by a conspicuous scar left by a 
deciduous bract. Fruit, cylindrical-ovoid, 2 in. long by } in. 
greater hairiness of the leaves, leafstalks and flowerstalks; the 
Teaves, too, of M. parviflora are broader and less tapered at the 
apex, and the flowerstalk is nearly twice as long as in the present 
species. 
M. Wilsonii flowered for the first time at Kew last June. It 
appears to be perfectly hardy here, but has grown much more 
rapidly and reached the flowering state sooner in Cornwall, Mr. 
P. D. Williams sent a flower to Kew in 1917 from his garden at 
Lanarth in that county, and I believe it had flowered there pre- 
viously. The flower is pendulous, and this character, as Mr. 
Williams has observed, will be very attractive in specimens tall 
enough for the richly-coloured stamens to be seen from below. 
tawny golden tomentum, a character which distinguishes this 
oak from all others in cultivation i i 
is young; with age it becomes yellowish-grey. The acorns are 
slender and somewhat truncheon-shaped, 1 to 1} in. long. 
The best plant at Kew was, until recently, growing in the 
Temperate House, but it is quite hardy, and has been transplanted 
to the open air. It was originally raised at Kew from acorns sent 
by Sir Robert Biddulph, High Commissioner for Cyprus from 
1879 to 1886. It is very desirable that the species should be re- 
introduced, and if this should meet the notice of any one in a 
position to obtain acorns, tree-lovers in this country would be | 
