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covered there with a copious, stellate pubescence ; margins bristly- 
toothed. The greenish flowers are in slender pendulous racemes 
inches long, {0098 
: atioduned by Mr. Wilson for Harvard University from 
Hupeh, China, where it inhabits the banks of mountain streams 
at altitudes of 3000 to 4000 feet, Of its hardiness nothing 
definite can be said at present, but judging by its habitat it re 
to be as hardy as the Sycopsis, to which it is very closely allied, 
The genus is at present monotypic, but some young plants growing 
In the Coombe Wood nursery under a different number from that 
of S. Henry’ may perhaps prove to be another species of this 
genus, 
Sycopsis sinensis, Oliver [Hamamelidaceae]; Hooker’s Icones 
Plantarum, t. 1931 and t, 2834 (3 flowers). cas , 
Although several species of Sycopsis are known, this is the only 
one hitherto found which is capable of withstanding our winters. 
Avellana), The leaves are ovate-lanceolate, 2 to 44 inches long, 
rather coriaceous, slightly toothed or entire, glabrous. ‘ 
plant has little beauty of blossom, having short dense racemes 0 
owers, the most conspicuous feature of which are the red aaprsie 
ill, it adds a new type to a group of hardy shrubs of exceptiona 
interest and distinction, 
Native of the mountains of Central China at 4000 feet. 
Tapiscia sinensis, Oliver [Sapindaceae] ;. Hooker’s Icones 
Plantarum, t. 1928. 
A small deciduous tree usually about 30 feet high, although one 
specimen found by Mr. Wilson was 90 feet high with a trun 
12 feet in girth. The leaves are pinnate, 12 to 18 inches long, the 
acuminate, 3 to 5 inches long, half as 
h. Flowers in axillary panicles 4 to 6 
» quite small (,4, inch long) with a pleasant 
Fruit ovoid, } inch long, black. 
iS species raised from. seed presented by 
ived last winter in the siete» 
its fine pinnate leave 
é fragrant “ower should 
ees 
inches in length, yellow 
Szechuan and Western Hupeh at altitudes 
of about 4000 feet, fairly common in the former province, but rare 
in Hupeh, onotypic. : 
Tetracentron sinense, Oliver [Trochodendraceae] ; Hooker’s 
Icones Plantarum, ¢. 1892 
ed 0 Mr, Wilson this is amongst the very largest of the 
broad-leaved trees of the Chinese foreste (that an excluding 
oO feet and upwards hi h, with a trunk 
circu - It belongs to that curious family, allied 
Magnoliaceae, which has been formed to include such diverse 
genera as Tr, hodendron, Eucommia, Cercidiphylium and Huptelea, 
