892 The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland 



FRAXINUS MARIESII 



Fraxinus Mariesii, J. D. Hooker, Bot. Mag., 6678 (1883); Hemsley, Journ. Linn. Soc. (Bot.), xxvi. 

 86 (1889). 



A small tree. Branchlets slender, terete, purple, minutely pubescent, especially 

 towards the tip; lenticels white. Leaflets (Plate 264, Fig. 18) five, ij to 3 inches 

 long, coriaceous, oval, acute or acuminate at the apex, base rounded or slightly 

 tapering ; regularly and crenately serrate, occasionally entire in margin ; glabrous 

 beneath. Petiolules f to f inch, scurfy pubescent. Rachis of the leaf purple, finely 

 pubescent, grooved on its upper side. 



Flowers very showy in erect panicles from the uppermost axils, about as long as 

 the leaves. Calyx minute, four-cleft. Petals five or six, \ inch long, linear-oblong. 

 Stamens two to four, as long as the petals. 



This was discovered by Maries in the Lushan Mountains near Kiukiang in 

 central China ; and it has not been found elsewhere by subsequent collectors. 

 Maries sent home seeds in 1879 from which the plant was raised by Messrs. 

 Veitch. It flowered 1 for the first time, at Coombe Wood, as early as 1882. 



It appears to be perfectly hardy in England, and is an ornamental small tree or 

 shrub of considerable value, on account of the creamy-white large panicles of flowers, 

 which appear about the end of June, and the bronze tint of the foliage. 



(A. H.) 



FRAXINUS RHYNCHOPHYLLA 



Fraxinus rhynchophylla, Hance, Journ. Bot., vii. 164 (1869); Franchet, PL Davidiance, i. 203, t. 17 

 (1884); Sargent, Garden and Forest, vi. 484, fig. 70 (1893); Komarov, Fl. Manshuria, iii. 

 248 (1907). 



Fraxinus Bungeana, Maximowicz, Mil. Biol. ix. 396 (1874) (not De Candolle). 



Fraxinus chinensis, Roxburgh, var. rhynchophylla, Hemsley, Journ. Linn. Soc. (Bot.), xxvi. 86 

 (1889). 



A large tree. Shoots glabrous, lenticels few and scattered. Terminal buds 

 remarkable, obtuse, conical, somewhat four-sided, with four or six outer scales, which 

 are ovate, strongly keeled, with acute points directed outwards, pubescent and grey on 

 the dorsal surface, and densely ferruginous woolly pubescent on their inner surface 

 and edges ; lateral buds, ovoid to rounded, small, with two to four outer scales, 

 directed outwards at an open angle. 



Leaflets (Plate 265, Fig. 23) five to seven, coriaceous, stalked or subsessile, 

 ovate to ovate-lanceolate ; base cuneate ; apex with a long acumen, which is blunt 

 or rounded and tipped with a short mucro ; margin remotely and crenulately serrate 



1 Hortus Veitchii, 367 (1906). 



