January 3, 1894.] 



Garden and Forest. 



petioles which, while young, are furnished toward the base 

 and at the insertion of the leaflets with tufts of thick orange- 

 colored tomentum, and seven, or rarely five, leaflets ; these 

 are ovate or broadly obovate, narrowed at the apex into 

 broad points, wedge-shaped at the base, and coarsely cre- 

 nately serrate above the middle ; they are thick and firm, or 



pedicels and are produced in compact panicles about two 

 and a half inches long and broad ; they are mostly perfect, 

 or sometimes unisexual by the abortion of the stamens, and 

 consist of a minute four-lobed calyx, persistent on the fruit, 

 a white corolla a quarter of an inch long, and divided to 

 the base into four linear-obovate petals, two stamens with 



Fig. 1. — Fraxinus Bungeana. — See page 4. 



sometimes subcoriaceous, conspicuously reticulate venu- 

 lose, dark green on the upper surface, pale and yellow- 

 green on the lower surface, an inch to an inch and a half 

 long, half an inch to three-quarters of an inch broad, and 

 are raised on slender elongated petiolules. The flowers, 

 which appear at the end of May, are borne on slender 



elongated slender filaments and oblong anthers, and a nar- 

 row ovate ovary gradually contracted into a long slender 

 style, divided at the apex into two stigmatic lobes. The 

 fruit ripens in September, and is an inch long, with a short, 

 slightly flattened, many-nerved body margined to about 

 the middle by the decurrent base of the ovate wing, which 



