JUGLANDACEAE. 



Determined by Alfred Rehder and E. H. Wilson.^ 



PLATYCARYA Sieb. and Zucc. 



Platycarya strobilacea Siebold & Zuccarini in Abh. Akad. Munch. 

 III. 742, t. 5, fig. 1 (1843). — Maximowicz in Bull. Acad. Sci. St. 

 Petersbourg, s6t. 3, XVIII. 64 (1873); in Mel. Biol. VIII. 640 (1873). — 

 Franchet in Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, ser. 2, VII. 92 (PI. David. I. 

 282) (1884). — Skan in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 495 (1899). — Pritzel 

 in Bot. Jahrh. XXIX. 273 (1900). — Pampanini in Nuov. Giorn. Bot. 

 Ital. n. ser. XVII. 31 (1910). — Dunn & Tutcher in Kew Bull. Misc. 

 Inform, add. ser. X. 251 (Fl. Kwangtung & Hongk.) (1912).— 

 L6veill6, Fl. Kouy-Tcheou, 203 (1914). 



Fortunaea chinensis Lindley in Jour. Hort. Soc. Lond. I. 150 (1846). 



Kiangsi: Kuling, thickets, alt. 1300 m., July 31, 1907 (No. 1665; 

 bush 2.5-4 m.). Western Hupeh: north and south of Ichang, 

 thickets and woods, alt. 30-1300 m., June and October 1907 (No. 495; 

 bush or small tree 3-12 m. tall, 0.3-1 m. girth); Ichang, glens, May 

 1900, Veitch Exped. (No. 451); Chienshi Hsien, A. Henry (No. 6014); 

 " Monte di Ku-tchen," alt. 600 m., July 1906, C. Silvestri (No. 309); 

 " lungo il fiume Han-Kiang," alt. 700 m., June 1907, C. Silvestri 

 (No. 311); "Monte Si-ho," July 1909, C. Silvestri (No. 2923). 

 Yunnan: Mile district, A. Henry (No. 9937). Chekiang: vicinity 

 of Ningpo, 1908, D. Macgregor, near Hanchou, June 1907, F. N. 

 Meyer (No. 427). 



This is a common bush or small tree, more rarely a tree from 12-15 m. tall with 

 a trunk 1 m. in girth but occasionally 20 m. tall and 2.5 m. in girth. The bark is 

 thick, dark and deeply furrowed; the branches are moderately thick and spread- 

 ing and form a rounded or flattened head. 



In Hupeh the colloquial name is Huan-hsiang-shu and the fruit is used to pre- 

 pare a black dye for cotton goods. Photographs of this tree will be found under 

 Nos. 495, 0179, 0154 of the collection of Wilson's photographs and in his Vegeta- 

 tion of Western China, No. 389. 



1 Carya by C S. Sargent. 

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