16 FOEEST FLORA OF JAPAN. 



anthers raised on slender filaments and surrounding the carpels, which are connate in a 

 vertical series, and ripen into a small fleshy drupe crowned with the remnants of the persistent 

 styles. Trochodendron is a tree from fifteen to twenty-five feet in height, and is said to be 

 very common in some parts of the country, although I never saw it growing wild ; and it is 

 certainly not an inhabitant of the alpine forests or of Hokkaido, as stated in some works on 

 the Japanese flora, although, perhaps, it occurs in northern Hondo at the sea-level, as it is 

 hardy in the gardens of Nikko at an elevation of 2,000 feet above the ocean. Trochodendron 

 aralioides is often cultivated by the Japanese, and fine specimens of this tree are found scat- 

 tered through public and private gardens in Tokyo and Yokohama. 



