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ON SOME CHINESE SPECIES OF OAKS. 838 
_ spikes; but he adds that the larger series of examples available 
here may show a closer connection than e had seen between the 
tw s to these points, I find t th young hes in 
phy vila va greatly; the petiole is sometimes 9 line 
ong, s 
arly obsolete; the base is sometimes distinctly Fee 
Bicol, in the older and broader joavan. but is oftener more or 
less attenuated, and there seems to be no contlake on the’ same 
r 
remarked that, in the figure of ae s ee there are some 
leaves much broader than the typical on 
nder the circumstane s M. Maxi mowicz suggests, it seems 
best simply to regard Abel’s Q. ‘lensifolia and Q. chinensis as two addi- 
pone to the flora of China. Unfortunately, Bunge 
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name of Q. chi li 
and I therefore propose for the former the name of Q. Bungeana._ 
In the sixth volume of the Tansee Society’s Journal (pp. 31- 
33), Mr. Carruthers published ‘ Notes on some species of Oaks from 
Northern China, collected by Dr. Daniell,’ the specimens of which, 
at the British Museum, I have lately had an opportunity of studying. 
t Mr. Carruthers’ request I sent leaves of the two undetermined 
species to M. Maximowicz, and, as was to be expected, the rich 
anchurian collections at St. Detarsbars have enabled that 
ope cmaned porous to offer some ataruaend eee 
species No. 5 (Carruthers, ye Linn. Soe. p. 82) was, in 
Q. 8 
the eauace of fruit, distingwished m Q. oer ‘Thbg. by the 
uniform obovate shape 0 ® lavet, ‘and by the almost obcete 
petioles. M. Masimerioe ¢ wri ites inclined to k 
the young plant of Q. chinensis Hauge we "0. Bungeana F Forbes), 
— Usually Q. chinensis has longer petloled leaves of different shape, 
i in i i young vigorous 
but these jong petioles occur in innovations or 
| the 
_ present actually a middle form between your extreme leaf and the 
adult type, some leaves of the same branch being nearer to the 
type, others nearer to your leaf.” 
Q. species No. 6 (Daceathees, ce. p. 82), which was pene 
), 
from the leaves only, as probably most nearly allied to Q. chi 
= 
Bunge, is considered by M. Maximowicz to be a young tree of Q. 
serrata ae: ‘«‘This,” he writes, “‘in its young state, like Q. - 
chinensis Bunge, bears more obtuse and somewhat panduriform 
leaves ‘avhich state is the var. obtusata Blume! e!). I must add that 
e eaves 
