76 A NEW CHINESE MAPLE. 
Meanwhile the barren stems, which are not usually produced 
from a flowering root (I find that the root appears to produce 
alternately barren stems and fertile ones,—seldom both in the 
same season) have also developed, and from their first erect 
position have loftily arched until, in the autumn, their tips reach 
the ground. The terminal portions have already put forth some 
short, stout rootlets, and when these touch the earth they 
a chord of three feet. As soon as the rooting tip has established 
itself the rest of the shoot becomes brittle and decays, its vitality 
aving been expended in the formation of the young plant. 
A NEW CHINESE MAPLE. 
By H. F. Hance, Ph.D., F.L.S., &c. 
Slatic species do not extend far south; that we must no 
expect to find here very closely allied forms. 4 
neal eer Fabri is angulatis glaberrimis, foliis 
rectis ex apice obtuso intus sensim curvatis loculum ovoideum 
€ connexum nervatum triplo superantibus. oe 
In jugo Lo-fau-shan, prov. Cantonensis, m. Sept. 1888, detexit 
rev. K. Faber. (Herb. propr. n. 22220. 
termediate between A. reticulatum, Champ.! and A. levigatum, 
Wall. ! but with the leaves much less closely netted than in either. 
In foliage it agrees most with the latter, in fruit with the former, 
except that the dorsal edge of the wing is contiguous to the fruit- 
cell, and not separated by a distinct intermediate membrane. 
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