FAGACEAE. — CASTANOPSIS 201 



Western Szech'uan: Mupin, woods, alt. 1000-1300 m., October 

 1908 (No. 1096, type; fruits); Wa-shan, woods, alt. 1300-2400 m., 

 June and October 1908 (Nos. 3622, co-type cf, 1096"); Hungya Hsien, 

 Wa-wu-shan, woods, alt. 1000-2000 m., September 12, 1908 (No. 

 1096b); Mt. Omei, alt. 2000-2300 m., October 1903, May 1904 (Veitch 

 Exped. Nos. 4508, 5188). Yunnan : Mengtsze, forests, alt. 2300 m., 

 A. Henry (No. 10610). 



This is a very distinct species, well characterized by its winter-buds, its leaves, 

 its solitary, axillary male aments, its short fruiting spike, its zonate-ridged strongly 

 echinate fruit and by its pubescent, pyramidate nut, with an unusually broad basal 

 scar. It may be contrasted with C. orthacantha Franchet, which we have not seen, 

 but which, according to the description, has a somewhat similar fruit, but has differ- 

 ently shaped and thicker leaves, glabrous and glaucescent on both surfaces, and 

 fasciculate male aments. 



This new species is common in woods on the lower slopes of Mt. Omei and the 

 regions to the immediate west and south, and is a handsome, umbrageous tree. 



A picture will be found under No. 323 of the collection of Wilson's photographs 

 and also in his Vegetation of Western China, No. 149. 



Castanopsis caudata Franchet in Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, s6r. 3, 

 VII. 87 (PL David. I. 277) (1884); in Jour, de Bot. XIII. 196 (1883).— 

 Skan in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 522 (1899).— Seemen in Bot. Jahrb. 

 XXIX. 287 (1900). 



Kiangsi: Ruling, thickets, alt. 1300 m., July 31, 1907 (No. 1522; 

 bush 4 m., densely branched). 



Our specimen is from the type locality and agrees well with Franchet's descrip- 

 tion, except that the leaves can scarcely be said to be glaucescent. This plant is 

 not very common on the Lushan mountains and is usually a large, much branched 

 bush or small tree. The leaves are coriaceous and shining and all parts of the plant 

 are glabrous. 



Castanopsis sclerophylla Schottky in Bot. Jahrb. XLVII. 638 

 (1912). 



Quercus chinensis Abel, Narr. Journ. China, 165, t. 363 (1818). — Forbes in Jour. 



Bot. XX. 81 (1884). — Franchet in Nuov. Arch. Mus. Paris, s4r. 2, VII. 85 



(PI. David. I. 275) (1884). — Skan in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 509 (1899). 

 Quercus sclerophylla Lindley in Lindley & Paxton, Flower Gard. I. 59, fig. 37 



(1850-51). — Walpcrs, A?in. Bot. III. 384 (1852-53). — Masters in Gard. 



Chron. n. ser. I. 632 (1874). — Hance in Jour. Bot. XII. 242 (1874); XIII. 



366 (1875); XX. 294 (1882). — Forbes in /our. Bot. XXII. 86 (1884).— Skan 



in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 520 (1899). — Seemen in Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. 



295 (1900). — Dunn & Tutcher in Kew Bull. Misc. Inform, add. ser. X. 



252 (Fl. Kwangtung & Hongk.) (1912). 

 Quercus cusjndata, var. sinensis A. De Candolle, Prodr. XVI. pt. 2, 103 



(1864).— Hance in Jour. Bot. XIII. 366 (1875). 

 Castanopsis chinensis Schottky in Bot. Jnhrb. XLVII. 687 (1912). 

 Synaedrys sclerophylla Koidzumi in Tokyo Bot. Mag. XXX. 187 (1916). 



