896 The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland 



obovate or oval ; cuneate and unequal at the base ; acute, acuminate or rounded at 

 the apex ; remotely and irregularly serrate ; upper surface shining, smooth, glabrous ; 

 lower surface light green, glabrous, but roughened on the midrib and nerves by 

 minute, curved, stiff bristles, which are also present on the petiolules and on the 

 margin of the blade. Rachis of the leaf, grooved throughout, pubescent on the 

 upper side of the nodes, and armed near the nodes and at the base with minute 

 curved bristles, which are also occasionally present towards the apex of the branchlet. 

 Flowers (section Ornus), in terminal glabrous panicles, on filiform pedicels ; calyx 

 with five long acuminate teeth. Fruit linear, 1^ inch long, \ inch wide. 



This species, of which we have seen the type specimen, preserved at Leyden, 

 and a specimen at Kew, lately received from Tokyo, differs from all the ashes known 

 to me, in the occurrence of characteristic minute curved prickles on the under 

 surface, margin, and petiolules of the leaflets and on the rachis of the leaf. Blume 

 considered it to be only cultivated in Japan, and possibly an introduction from 

 China. It appears to be unknown to Japanese botanists. However the only 

 living specimen which we have seen is a small plant at Aldenham, which was raised 

 from seed obtained from the Imperial Garden at Tokyo. (A. H.) 



FRAXINUS PUBINERVIS 



Fraxinus pubinervis, Blume, Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. i. 311 (1850); Franchet et Savatier, Enum. PI. 



Jap. i. 311 (1875), and ii. 435 (1879); Lingelsheim, in Engler, Bot. Jahrb. xl. 214 (1907). 

 Fraxinus Bungeana, De Candolle, vox. pubinervis, Wenzig, in Engler, Bot. Jahrb. iv. 170 (1883). 



A small tree, with smooth bark. Young branchlets densely covered with 

 greyish pubescence, disappearing in the second year. Buds conical, densely covered 

 with a brownish-grey pubescence. Leaflets, five or seven, coriaceous, 3 to 4 inches 

 long, 1 to 1 \ inch wide ; terminal largest, long-stalked and often broadest in its 

 upper half ; lateral, upper pair subsessile, lower pairs shortly stalked ; lanceolate, 

 cuneate at the base, acuminate at the apex, crenately serrate ; upper surface glabrous ; 

 lower surface pale green, with dense whitish pubescence on the side of the midrib, 

 spreading to the lateral nerves, and continued on the petiolules. Rachis of the leaf, 

 with a continuous open groove, pubescent throughout, the pubescence densest at the 

 nodes. Flowers (section Ornus), in large, terminal glabrous panicles, with early 

 deciduous petals and long pedicels ; calyx with long acuminate teeth. Fruit linear- 

 spatulate, acute, \\ inch long, \ inch wide. 



This species is known to the Japanese as toneriko ; and in a native book on 

 forest trees, is said to attain 30 feet in height and 3 feet in girth, but no accurate 

 account of its distribution or habitat is given. There is a dried specimen at Kew, 

 lately received from Tokyo. The only tree in cultivation known to me, is one at 

 Aldenham, about 15 feet high, which was received six years ago from the 

 Yokohama Nursery Company, and is growing vigorously. 



