FAGACEAE. — LITHOCARPUS 209 



This new species is most closely related to L. spicata Rehder & Wilson, but in 

 that species and its numerous varieties the leaves, though varying greatly in size, 

 are nearly always broadest above the middle and are narrowly cuneate or attenuate 

 at the base, the petioles never exceed one inch and are usually only about half an 

 inch in length, and the cup scales are thickened, usually very much so, tuberculate 

 and indistinct one from another and the acorn is smaller. 



Wilson met with this new Lithocarpus in only one locality, so it would appear to 

 be a rare tree. The wood is exceedingly tough. 



Lithocarpus sp. 



Western Hupeh: Changyang Hsien, alt. 1300-1600 m., June 



1907 (No. 3638). 



Apparently closely related to L. megalophylla Rehder & Wilson and L. Henryi 

 Rehder & Wilson, but distinguished by a rufous gray fascicled pubescence on 

 the young shoots; the leaves are also smaller. Our specimen consists of a leafy 

 branch with unopen flowers and is too incomplete for determination, although it 

 is unlike any other we have seen. 



Lithocarpus Henryi Rehder & Wilson, n. comb. 



Quercus Henryi Seemen in Bot. Jahrb. XXIII. Beibl. No. 57, 50 (1897); 



XXIX. 294 (1900). 

 Quercus spicata Franchet in Jour, de Bot. XIII. 155 (non Smith) (1899), quoad 



specimen e Szech'uan orientali. — Skan in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 521 



(1899), quoad specimina e Hupeh et Szech'uan. 

 Pasania Henryi Schottky in Bot. Jahrb. XL VII. 665 (1912). 



Western Hupeh: south of Ichang, woods, October 1907 (No. 

 543; tree 6-16 m. tall, girth 1-2.3 m.); Changlo Hsien, woods, alt. 

 1000-1500 m., June 1907 (No. 543^^; tree 6-16 m. tall); Patung Hsien, 

 woods, alt. 1100-1300 m., May, June, July and September 1907 (No. 

 543^, 543") 3637; tree 8-20 m. tall, girth 1-3 m.); same locality, July 

 1901 (Veitch Exped. No. 2228, in part, Seed No. 775) ; Fang Hsien, 

 woods, alt. 1300 m., June and July 1907 (Nos. 543'', 3637=^; tree 5-13 

 m. tall, girth 1-2 m.); Paokang Hsien, June and July 1901 (Veitch 

 Exped. No. 2228, in part, tree 16 m. tall); without locality, A. Henry 

 (Nos. 5805, 5805% 6023, co-type). Eastern Szech'uan: Wushan 

 Hsien, A. Henry (Nos. 7030, 7030'*). 



This is a very common evergreen tree in the woods of western Hupeh and eastern 

 Szech'uan between 600 and 1500 m. altitude. It seldom exceeds 16 m. in height, 

 and has ascending-spreading branches which form a neat oval or rounded crown. The 

 fructification is biennial and subterminal on the season's growth and the acorn 

 may be flattened-round on the summit or slightly raised and pointed; the cup is 

 always very shallow and thin and the scales arc keeled on the back. Franchet and 

 Skan both refer this plant to the variable L. spicata Rehder & Wilson (Quercus spicata 

 Smith), but if this is correct, it is certainly a very distinct variety. Von Seemen 

 has pointed out certain differences between his species and Smith's, and we may 



