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ae last puma? the tree at Canton, which was removed by 
ampson some time since to the Public Garden in the Foreign 
Settlement, oye very freely, and has ripened abundance of fruit ; 
and a comparison of these with the authentic specimens for whic h 
I am indebt ed t o M. Nandin ’s good office ces, leaves no o shadow o sent 
if I mistake not, did not travel beyond or even to any aoe nat 
i : b : : 
the same plant from the hills in the neighbourhood of Ningpo, where. 
also it was met with by the late Mr. Oldham. The general affinity 
between the Ningpo and Japanese Floras, and the occurrence in the 
are reducible to one, which differs from inese congener in 
various points of structure, and was ee ty the late Prof. 
8. 
The tree in the Canton Garden, which has now attained a height 
of nearly twenty feet, has rather pale bark, assuming, as the trunk 
grows, & rough coarsely Setieulated fibrous appearance; graceful 
spreading branches; and ha ndsome foliage, which exhales, especially 
if drawn through the hand, a balsamic odour, blended with a decided 
soupcon of bugs, so that it occupies t oe debatable ground between 
the grateful and the disagreeable, The leaflets, borne in 5 to 7 
gradually in : 
much the smallest, are oval, oblique at the base, rounded at the apex, 
and with sharp shallow serratures, except the basal portion, which 
is entire: the rachis in the living plant is as conspicuously winged as 
that of Rhus semialata, Murr. The peculiarity of gemmation noticed 
b . C. de C dol i d wel Ww 
Fe ee co snsne-decinols—ininasneedh 
observes (Praef. in Mantis. Novit. Flor. Succ.), will hold to the first. The 
Horatian prediction,— 
‘ Multa renascentur que jam cecidere, eadentque 
unc sunt in honore pie e desu heaiee 
f ecific names, w is 
i Uindiny es i tended eect ‘ vas. 0" and these dry bones may sure urely be 
left undisturbed. As regards M. cep statement that Calléry’s specimens 
a wingless rachis, 1 may rem: thea ol the growin ng P Sagpeh, the ss is 
uite conspicuous ; but that it Recs curls up so mu 
that oeae specially looked for, or known to exist, it would not be 0 m) aad ; 
and not ever then, sometimes, unless the Taf is softened in warm w 
* Abhandl. d. math.-phys. Kl. d. k. Miinch. Akad. iv., 2, 141. 
+ Mél. Biolog. Acad. St. Pétersb. viii, 638. 
{ Ann. Mus. bot, Lugd.- Bat. iii., 207. 
§ Mémoire sur la Famille des Juglandées, in Ann, Se. Nat. 4¢, sér. xvili., 11. 
