FAGACEAE. — CASTANEA 193 



Castanea crenata Henry in Elwes & Henry, Trees Great Brit. & Irel., IV. 854 



(pro parte, non Siebold & Zuccarini) (1909). 

 Castanea saliva, var. mollissima Pampanini in Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. n. ser. 



XVII. 250 (1910). 



Western Hupeh: north and south of Ichang, woods, May, June 

 and October 1907 (Nos. 550, 507"; bush or tree 0.6-16 m. tall, girth 

 1-2.3 m.); same locality, May 1900 (Veitch Exped. No. 812); same 

 locality, A. Henry (No. 1570); Changyang Hsien, woods, alt. 1300- 

 1600 m.. May and October 1907 (No. 549; tree 6-16 m. tall, girth 1-2.5 

 m.) ; Patung Hsien, woods, alt. 1000-2000 m., June, July and October 

 1907 (Nos. 344% 3663, 548; tree 6-16 m. tall, gu-th 1-2.5 m.); Hsing- 

 shan Hsien, woods, alt. 600-2500 m., June, July, October 1907 (Nos. 

 344,3615,3662,3661,3668; tree 6-20 m. tall, girth 0.6-2.5 m.) ; Fang 

 Hsien, woods, alt. 1300-1600 m., August and October 1907 (No. 547; 

 tree 6-13 m. tall). Western Szech'uan: southeast of Tachien-lu, 

 woods, alt. 1300 m., October 1908 (No. 1141% tree 6-12 m. tall); 

 Chienshi Hsien, Fei-ytieh-ling, woods, alt. 2600-3000 m., October 

 1910 (No. 4581 ; tree 6-10 m. tall) ; Wa-shan woods, alt. 1000-1600 m., 

 October 1908 (No. 1141; tree 6-10 m. tall); Nan-ch'uan, A. von Rost- 

 horn (No. 1513). Yunnan: Mengtsze, mountains south, alt. 1600 

 m., A. Henry (No. 10701; tree 5 m. tall, cultivated?). Chekiang: 

 vicinity of Ningpo, 1908, D. Macgregor; near Hanchou, June 26, 1915, 

 F. N. Meyer (No. 1465; tree 10-26 m. tall); Mokan-shan, alt. 550 m., 

 July 21, 1915, F. N. Meyer (No. 1589; shrub 0.6-1.3 m.). Kiangsu : 

 Shanghai, 1915, D. Macgregor (No. 44). Kianghuai : Nanking, June 

 1, 1915, F. N. Meyer (No. 1409; tree 13 m. tall). Chili: Peking, 

 1903, C. S. Sargent (seeds only); " near San-tun-ying," May 30, 1913, 

 F. N. Meyer; " Ying-tan-ho," cultivated, September 12, 1913, F. N. 

 Meyer (No. 1288). Shantung: Tsing-tau, 1901, R. Zimmermann 

 (No. 352). Shensi : " Ya-tze-ko, southwest of Sian Fu," cultivated, 

 September 2, 1914, F. N. Meyer (No. UOO''). Fokien: Dunn's 

 Exped., April to June 1905 (Hongkong Herb., No. 3501). 



INDIA. Sikkim: Mungpoo, cultivated, May 1895, J. A. Gammie (as 

 "Yunnan Chestnut "). 



This is the common Chestnut of China and is distributed from the neighborhood 

 of Peking in the northeast to the extreme limits of Szech'uan and Yunnan in the 

 west and southwest. Near Peking it is cultivated and we do not know if it is wild 

 in that region; the specimens collected in Sikkim by Gammie arc also from culti- 

 vated trees. In western Hupeh and in Szech'uan it is an exceedingly common tree 

 and is unquestionably indigenous. Near villages and towns where the woody vege- 

 tation is continually cut down to furnish fuel this Chestnut is met with as a bush 

 or a low scrub, but in the thinly populated areas it is a tree from 15 to 20 m. tall, 



