JUGLANDACEAE 61 



purple stigmas. Fruit globose, green, aromatic, the husk splitting 

 irregularly at maturity. Nut roundish or oval, thin shelled and not 

 deeply sculptured, divided in the interior by 2 incomplete septums; the 

 cotyledons 2 lobed, wrinkled and corrugated. 



This so-called English or Persian Walnut is indigenous to China, and 

 is commonly cultivated in N. China in various horticulturally named 

 forms or varieties. The wood is purplish-brown in color, practically 

 without characteristic taste or odor; moderately heavy, straight grained 

 and hard, taking a high polish, commanding a high price in the market 

 for high grade furniture-making and for gun stocks. 



Juglans cathayensis Dode. 

 Butternut. 



Bush or tree up to 15 m. tall. Branchlets, leaf rachis, and fruit 

 glandular-hairy. Leaflets 9-17, oblong-ovate, acuminate, rounded at 

 the base, serrate, pubescent beneath. Staminate catkins 20-30 cm. long. 

 Fruit 6-10 in a pendulous spike, ovate, pointed, 3-4.5 cm. long. Nuts 

 ovate, pointed, 6-8 angled with prominent, broken ridges. 



Central, Western and South Western China. Abundant in Hupeh 

 and Szechuan. 



The hard shell and small kernel render this nut of no great 

 commercial value. 



Juglans mandshurica, Maximowicz. 



Tree 18 m. tall. Branchlets pubescent or glabrescent. Leaflets 11-19, 

 pubescent beneath. Fruits in short racemes, 6-13, globular-ovate to 

 oblong, viscid. Nuts globose or ovate, with a sharp point and 8 

 prominent ridges. 



Manchuria, C. and W. China. 



Chihli, Hupeh, Szechuan, Yunnan. 



The Chinese butternuts should be taken in hand by hybridizers with 

 the object of improving the quality of the nuts to render them marketable. 

 Juglans mandshurica is very hardy. 



HICORIA 



Trees with solid pith. Leaves deciduous, without stipules, compound, 

 odd pinnate. Leaflets sessile or subsessile, serrate, pinnately veined, 



