FAGACEAE. — LITHOCARPUS 205 



(ex Herb. Bot. Gard. Hongkong, No. 10202, as Quercus sclerophylla) . Formosa : 

 South Cape, A. Henry (No. 1313). 



Korea: Quelpaert, woods, October 1906 and June 1907, U. Faurie (Nos. 184, 

 1524); same locality, October 1907, May and August 1908, May and October 

 1909, Taquet (Nos. 329, 1428, 1429, 1438, 2554, 2556, 2557, 2560, 2562, 256.3). 



This is apparently a rare tree in China, where it was not met with by Wilson. 

 In Japan it is exceedingly common from Tokyo southward, especially near the 

 sea, and is also commonly cultivated. It grows from 10 to 25 m. tall and has 

 massive widespreading branches. The leaves are variable in size and shape and 

 the under side varies from bro\^^lish to nearly white. We have before us a co-type 

 of Blume's var. pusilla, consisting of a slender branchlct with small leaves, and a 

 similar specimen can be found among other material before us. The characters on 

 which Makino establishes his P. Sieboldii are both trivial and inconstant and, 

 moreover, as Thunberg's figure proves, his statement that Q. cuspidata Thunberg 

 has a globular nut is erroneous. When young the fruit is round and flattened, but 

 at maturity it is always oblong-ovoid to ovoid. 



Pictures of this tree will be found under Nos. x53, x65, x66, x67, xl09, xl59 x294, 

 x573, x578 of the collection of Wilson's Japanese photographs. 



This plant is figured by Banks {Icon. Kaempf. t. 38 [1791]) under the native 

 Japanese name of Ssi-no-ki. 



Castanopsis cuspidata, f . latifolia Rehder & Wilson, n. comb. 

 Quercus cuspidata latifolia Nicholson, Diet. Gard. III. 264 (1887). 

 Pasania cuspidata, /3 Sieboldii, forma rotundifolia Makino in Tokyo Bot. Mag. 



XXIII. 142 (1909). 

 Pasania Sieboldii, var. rotundifolia Makino in Tokyo Bot. Mag. XXIV. 233 

 (1910). 

 Cultivated : Arboretum, Royal Gardens, Kew, March 10, 1880, G. Nicholson (No. 

 1677; in Herb. Arnold Arboretum). 



The leaves of this cultivated plant are usually broadly elliptic-ovate and abruptly 

 broad cuneate at the base. 



Castanopsis cuspidata, f . variegata Rehder & Wilson n. comb. 



Quercus cuspidata variegata Nicholson, Diet. Gard. III. 264 (1887). 

 Cultivated: Arboretum, Royal Gardens, Kew, October 13, 1880, G. Nicholson 

 (No. 2291; in Herb. Arnold Arboretum). 



In the Gardeners' Chronicle, n. ser. XII. 233, fig. 38 in part, there is a figure of 

 this plant. 



LITHOCARPUS Bl.^ 

 Lithocarpus cleistocarpa Rehder & Wilson, n. comb. 



Quercus cleistocarpa Seemen in Bot. Jahrb. XXIII. Beibl. No. 57, 52 (1897); 

 XXIX. 295 (1900). — Skan in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 510 (1899). — Fran- 

 chet in Jour, de Bot. XIII. 157 (1899). 



» Lithocarpus Blume, Bijdr. 526 (1825); Fl. Jav. I. Cupulif. 34, t. 20 (1828). — 

 Endlicher, Gen. 275 (1846). — Miquel, Fl. Ind. Bot. I. 865 (1855). — Nakai in 

 Tokyo Bot. Mag. XXIX. 55 (excl. sect. Chlamydobalanus) (1915). 



Synaedrys Lindley, Nat. Syst. Bot. ed. 2, 441 (1836). — Koidzumi in Tokyo 



Bot. Mag. XXX. 185 (1916). 

 Cyclobalanus Oersted in Kjoebenh. Vidensk. Meddel. XVIII. 80 (Bidr. Egesl. 

 Syst. 72) (1866). 



