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Fokienia Hodginsii, Henry and Thomas (Coniferae]. 
Mr. H. Clinton Baker of Bayfordbury has recently presented to 
Kew a plant of this new and extremely rare conifer. It is one of a 
few living specimens sent to him in 1909 by his brother Capt. 
L. Clinton Baker, R.N., from the Fokien province of Eastern 
i The species has been made the type of a new genus 
will make a handsome evergreen for conservatories and winter 
gardens and may prove suitable for the south-western counties in 
the open. 
Pinus Bungeana, Zucc. [Coniferae]. 
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freely after the fashion of a plane, but the newer bark revealed is 
dark brown and not white. The accompanying extract from an 
interesting letter of Sir Ernest Satow’s would seem to show that 
this is probably due to the comparative juvenility of our trees :— 
‘Here is a photograph of three specimens of Pinus Bungeana 
standing about three miles west of Peking. The structure on the 
left of the centre tree is an old tomb, and the height of the masonry 
as far as my recollection goes is about 8 feet, which affords a 
standard for measuring the height of the trunk up to the point 
where the branches begin. The tomb is quite old, and neglected, 
so that possibly it is more than a century old. There are a great 
many of these trees in and near Peking, either in the grounds of 
palaces or planted in private graveyards of wealthy families. I 
