408 



For comparison with the Terling Place seedling a natural size 

 drawing of a twig of one of the seedling Elms from the " Backs" 

 Gate of King's College, Cambridge, is reproduced. 



The young twigs, petioles, and the veins on the lower side of 

 the leaf are covered with hairs, and both surfaces of the leaf 

 lamina are also hairy. 



The leaves have assumed the normal alternate arrangement and 

 the dentation of the laminae is like that of the leaves of an adult 

 tree. The general shape of the leaves agrees with those oi.Ulmus 

 campestris* though their hairiness is like that of U. montana, the 

 latter character, however, appears to be correlated with the 

 juvenile condition and does not therefore indicate that these 

 seedlings are those of the Wych Elm. 



Seedlings of the true U. campestris grown in the Gardens from 

 seed collected by Mr. T. Henry in France prove to be very 

 variable in character, the seeds being from the same tree. In 

 all cases the leaves are hairy on both surfaces, and some of the 

 specimens are remarkably similar to the Cambridge seedlings. 



It seems highly probable, therefore, all things considered, 

 that the " King's College " s edlings are those of the true 

 U. campestris. 



Stercuha rhmopetala.-Flowering specimens of a Sterculiaceous 

 tree from Lagos were received from Mr. Cyril Punch in 1901, and 

 were referred provisionally to Cola. In 1907 fruiting specimens 

 ol tne same species, collected in Southern Nigeria by Mr. E.W . Foster, 

 were received, and it was found, on examination of the seed, that 

 tne species belonged to the genus Sttrculia, and was S. rhinopetala, 



Pflansen-fam 



Af< 



used as Cola at Yaunde in the Cameroons. The accuracy of 

 Zenker s statement is called in question by Schumann -firstly, 

 because Zenker gave the number of seeds as 10-12 per follicle, 

 whereas only 5 ovules were found in each ovary by Schumann ; 

 he considered therefore that the fruit could hardly belong to the 

 flowering specimens. Secondly, because S. rhinopetala is a true 

 Mercuha ;, he thought that its seeds could hardly be eaten, inas- 

 much as the seeds of Sterculia have a hard seed coat and an oily 



albumen. 



The follicles collected by Foster contain, however, from seven 

 to nine seeds each, and it is recorded in Watt's Dictionary of 

 Economic Products, Vol. VI., part iii., pp. 362-5, that the seeds of 



ni>r>^* 4. *-vvvvvi* c* iA ^ ajf. wi ens are roasteu ana eaien iiw 



cnestnuts, especially in times of scarcity. We are also informed 



Hochreut 



pleasant. 



7 



(proper) 



TaJ toHS 9 ^jUwlm. 1-c, Vol. III. Ulmvs campedri*, Spach., p. 2, and 

 "xvii., Fig. 2 ; V. montana, Smith, p. 7, Figs. 230, 231 , and Taf txxxviii., Fig. 2- 



