Carpinus 529 



Young plants were sent by Prof. Sargent in 1895 ^"d 1897 to Kew, which have 

 now attained about 10 feet in height. At Tortworth a young tree has produced 

 fruit. 



The foliage of this species is remarkably distinct and handsome. (A. H.) 



^ CARPINUS YEDOENSIS 



Carpinus yedoensis, Maximowicz, Mel. Biol. xi. 314 (1881); Burkill, Journ. Linn. Soc. {Bot.\ xxvi. 

 502 (1899); Franchet, Journ. de Bat. xiii. 203 (1899); Winkler, Betulacece, 35 (1904). 



A small tree. Young branchlets densely covered with long hairs. Leaves 

 (Plate 201, Fig. 3), 2^ inches long by i^ inch wide, ovate, acute at the apex, rounded 

 at the base ; margin biserrate and ciliate ; upper surface with conspicuous bands of 

 long appressed pubescence in the intervals between the lateral nerves ; lower surface 

 pilose on the midrib and nerves, glabrous or with scattered long hairs in the intervals 

 between the nerves ; nerves ten to twelve pairs ; petiole, | to J inch long, pilose ; 

 stipules, linear-lanceolate, caducous. Fruit : strobiles, 2^ inches long ; bracts loosely 

 imbricated, f inch long, semi-ovate, coarsely serrate on the outer side, subentire on 

 the inner side, which is slightly infolded at the base, forming a small auricle partly 

 covering the nutlet. 



This species is only cultivated in Japan, where it was first seen by Maximowicz. 

 It was discovered growing wild in the mountains of North-Eastern Szechwan in China 

 by Pere Farges, and may have been brought to Japan by Buddhist monks in early 

 days, like many other Chinese plants. Young plants were raised from Japanese seed 

 in 1901 by Purpus, in the Botanic Garden at Darmstadt. In the nursery at Kew 

 there are two or three plants, growing vigorously, and about 3 feet in height, which 

 were obtained from Simon Louis in 1904. (A. H.) 



CARPINUS CORDATA 



Carpinus cordata, Blume, Mtis. Bot. Lugd. Bat. i. 309 (1850); Sargent, Garden and Forest, vi. 

 364 (1893), viii. 294, f. 41 (1895), and Forest Flora Japan, 65 (1894); 'Rw^iiW, Journ. Linn. 

 Soc. {Bat.), xxvi. 501 (1899); Shirasawa, Icon. Ess. Forest. Japon, text 46, t. 24, ff. 18-32 

 (1900); Winkler, Betulacece, 26 (1904); J. H. Veitch, Hortus Veitchii, 359 (1906). 



Distegocarpus (?) cordata, De CandoUe, Prod. xvi. 2, p. 128 (1864). 



A tree, attaining in Japan and China a height of 50 feet and a girth of 6 feet ; 

 bark, dark grey, deeply furrowed and scaly. Young branchlets covered with a very 

 minute pubescence, intermixed with scattered long hairs. Leaves (Plate 201, Fig. 2), 

 ovate, up to 5 inches long and af inches wide, acuminate at the apex, unequally and 

 deeply cordate at the base ; margin finely bi-serrate, non-ciliate ; upper surface dark 

 green, with scattered long hairs ; lower surface light green, pubescent between the 

 nerves, pilose on the midrib and nerves, without axil tufts ; nerves fifteen to twenty 



