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with which it is confused, has much thicker leaves and sepals. The 
stamens, too, differ in being glabrous and attenuated towards the 
top, those of C. nutans being hairy over their whole length. 
C. nutans was introduced to France by means of seed sent from 
the region of Tatien-lu in Szechuan, China. More recently seeds 
have been collected by Wilson in the same region. 
Osmanthus Delavayi, Franchet [Oleaceae], 
In 1890 some seeds of this shrub were sent from Yunnan by the 
Abbé Delavay to Mr. Maurice de Vilmorin, who distributed them 
to various correspondents. But we are told by Mr. de Vilmorin 
that of all the seeds thus obtained, only one germinated, and this 
was in the Paris School of Arboriculture at St. Mandé. From the 
Pistacia chinensis, Bunge [ Anacardiaceae]. : 
Among some seeds obtained in 1897 from a private collector in 
Central China were a few unnamed ones from which were raised 
acuminate, 24 to 34 inches long, 2 inch wide, smooth, unequally 
Flowers have not been borne by our young trees, which are about 
8 feet high, but they appear to have little beauty, being produced 
in a cluster of panicles near the end of the branch, the male flowers 
crowded on racemes about 3 inches long, the female ones on laxer 
ones 7 to 9 inches long, Fruit the size of peppercorns, first red 
then blue. This species promises to be quite hardy and a good 
grower. For gardens generally it will prove the most satisfactory 
of an interesting genus containing the Pistachio, Mastic and Chian 
Turpentine trees, none of which thrive really well except in the 
south-western counties of the British Isles. 
By the kind permission of Professor Sargent, Arnold Arboretum, 
Harvard University, the photograph of this tree, taken by Mr. E, 
