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he regarded as two dlfTereub species o£ Ahnrites wliicli lie Imd in 

 cultivation, together with notes on the differences observed in the 

 living trees. For some reason the question was not investigated at 

 the time, and it was forgotten until Mr. W. J. Tutclier, the present 

 Assistant Superintendent, called my attention to it again last year. 

 I thereupon wrote to Mr. Dunn, the present Superintendent, for 

 further material, which he kindly sent, with some observations of his 

 own confirming the existence of two species, hitherto confused under 

 the name of A. cordaia, Stcud. 



The confusion of A. cordata^ Steud., "wifch A, Foy^dii^ Ilemsl., was 

 begun by Adrian de Jussieu in the work cited above. He distinguished 

 two species apparently from specimens before him, but he began with 

 the erroneous assumption that Dryandra cort/aYa, Thunb., from Japan, 

 ^vas one species and D, Verniciay Correa (Veimicia 7nonta7ia^ IjO\xv,)j 

 inhabiting China and Cochinchina, was a second species ; but there is 

 no doubt that Thunberg and Loureiro had the same species under 

 observation. Jussieu placed them under the genus Elaeococca^ but he 

 did not give any differential definitions in the work cited above 

 (pp. 38 and 84), where he states that there are two species. The 

 figures in plate 11 of that work represent the fruit and seed of A. 

 Fordiiy under the name of Elaeococca verrucosa^ of ^vhicli Dryandra 

 cordata is given by the author as a synonym in the description (p. 112) 

 of the figures. He is therefore in error as to two points : namely, in the 

 assumption that Yernicia montcma^ Lour., and Dryandra cordata, 

 Tliuub., were different plants, and in the assumption that his Elaeo- 

 cocca verrucosa was the same as the latter. Under the circumstances 

 it seems better not to adopt his name for the Chinese species, especially 

 as it only applies to the fruit and seed ; the flowers being apparently 

 those of A, cordata. There is a good figure of the strongly wrinkled 

 fruit of A. cordatft (Ann. Mus. Ilist. ^^at. Par. vol. viii, (1800), p. Cl>, 

 t. 32, f. 1), from tlic Banksian collection, under the name of Dryandra 

 Yernicia^ Correa. 



Ahnrites Fordii is the T'ung Yu of the Chinese and is one source 

 cf what is called wood oil. A. cordata also yields wood oil ; and 

 another oil-seed, under the name of Balucanat seed, has been imported 

 from the Philippine Islands. This also has hitherto been referred to 

 A. cordata, but it is different, and is most likely the seed of A. trisperma, 

 Blanco (Fl. Filip., ed. 1, p. 755), syn, A. Sapo?mria, Blanco, ed. -, 

 p. 520; ed. 3, p. 156, t. 296; Nov. App., p. 191, which bears the 

 same vernacular name. For a fuller account of the oil and a revised 

 synonymy of the species of Aleitritr.^^ see * Kcw Bulletin,' 1906, 

 pp. 117-121 and 398, 399. 



There arc flowering specimens of A, cordata, Stcud. (syn, Dryandra 

 cordata, Thunb.), in the Ivew Herbarium from Japan, Formosa, 

 Hainan, and Tongking, and also from the Hongkong Botanic 

 Garden, raised from seed received from Cochinchina ; and the type of 

 Loureiro's synonymous Vernicia moniana is in the British ]\Iuscum, 

 The only ripe fruit of A. cordata at Kew was presented by Mr. 

 Tutchcr ill 1905, 



