Fraxinus 891 



This is the largest and finest of the flowering ashes, and attains a great size in 

 its native home, Sir D. Brandis mentioning trees in the Chenab Valley planted near 

 villages and temples, which reach 120 feet in height and 15 feet in girth. It is the 

 only valuable species of ash in the Himalayas, where it grows on rich moist soils, 

 generally on limestone. It is distributed throughout the Himalayas from the Indus 

 to Sikkim, between 5000 and 9000 feet, but is only common locally. It is also met 

 with in Baluchistan, Afghanistan, and in the Shan Hills of Upper Burma. 



We have seen no large trees of this species in England ; but it appears to do 

 well at Kew, and probably would succeed as an ornamental tree in at any rate the 

 warmer parts of the British Isles. (A. H.) 



FRAXINUS BUNGEANA 



Fraxinus Bungeana, De Candolle, 1 Prod. viii. 275 (1844); Franchet, PL David, i. 203 (1884); 



Hemsley, Journ. Linn. Soc. {Bot.), xxvi. 84 (1889); Sargent, Garden and Forest, vii. 4, fig. 1 



(1894). 

 Fraxinus parvifolia, Lingelsheim, in Engler, Bot. Jahrb. xl. 214 (1907) (not Lamarck). 



A shrub about 5 feet high. Branchlets grey, minutely pubescent, with a dense 

 ring of hairs at the base of the shoot. Buds ovoid, with dark puberulous scales. 

 Leaflets (Plate 266, Fig. 31), five to seven, 1 to \\ inch long, thin, membranous; 

 usually on pubescent stalklets, -inch long, upper pair sometimes subsessile ; oval or 

 rhomboid, broadly cuneate or rounded at the base, abruptly contracted into a long 

 acuminate apex, crenately serrate, pale beneath ; both surfaces quite glabrous. 

 Leaf-rachis, grooved on the upper side, minutely pubescent, pubescence densest 

 opposite the nodes. 



Flowers, in terminal panicles, polygamous ; petals 4, linear-obovate ; calyx 

 minute, 4-lobed. Fruit with a short slightly flattened many-nerved body, margined 

 to about the middle by the decurrent base of the wing, which is oblong with a 

 rounded, often emarginate apex. 



This species is common on the hills near Peking and in the adjacent parts of 

 Mongolia, and is the representative there of the European F. Ornus. Dr. 

 Bretschneider sent seeds in 1881 to the Arnold Arboretum, Massachusetts, where 

 plants were raised which are perfectly hardy in New England. They are pretty 

 shrubs with abundant clusters of white flowers. This species does not seem to be in 

 cultivation* in England. (A. H.) 



1 This species was founded by De Candolle on specimens (one of which is at Kew) of a shrub, collected by Bunge in 

 1831, near Peking, and named by the latter F. floribunda in En. PI. Chin. Bor., 6 1 (1832). Maximowicr, followed by 

 Koehne and Lingelsheim, have erroneously applied De Candolle's name to F. rhynchophylla. 



2 Plants, sent to Kew by Sargent in 1903, cannot be found, and are supposed to have died. Since this article was 

 corrected for the press, four plants from the Arnold Arboretum have arrived at Kew. 



