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lanceolatis basi rotundatis apice acuminatis calloso-mucronatis a 
s oliy viridibus nervatione inconspicua subtus dense cano- 
furfuraceo-lepidot u us cinnamomeo-tinctis costu d 
utrumque latus circ. 8 mene sub angulo 40° egressis curvulis 
elevatis trabeculis tenuissim ulo conspicuis 24-34 poll. longis 
14-16 lin. latis pet — 5- dineal (aortas , fruct ibus satis confertis 
glabris circ. 8 lim: metro ferrugineo- ‘anentonis aculeis 2-24 lin. 
ongis a trunco co ni dive sor gete crane sericeis echinatis, 
nuculis solitariis Gtienteo derasili tec - 
In monte Tan-ha-shan, prov. ee circ. 300 m a 
m. p. 
a peplantiionon versus, m. Novembri 1883, leg. rev. B. C. 
2 
: 32. 
d to C. tribuloides A. DC. and C. chinensis Hance. The 
ee i is not unlike that of Quercus (Chlamydobalanus) sclerophylla 
dl 
It may be interesting to transcribe Mr. Henry’s note on the 
singular locality in which he discovered this remarkably handsome 
tree :—‘‘ On the side of Tan-ha-shan, beside the road leading up 
the steep hill to the celebrated Buddhist monastery of Tan-ha-tsz. 
The tree was a fine spreading one, probably fifty feet high, covered 
with abundance of fruit, which the people told me is gathered in 
groups of hills I have ever seen. It rises like a wedge, almos 
perpendicular on the long sides, to a height of 1500 feet, the may 
wide, being ides in ftom at the top than at the ott ra The 
tio: 
among them the little stream winds. oat vegetation is "sak 
e writer has not been able to examine athe cotyledonar struc- 
ture of either of the above three species. 
A NEW CHINESE GOMPHOSTEMMA. 
By H. F. Hanoz, Ph.D., &c. 
Serrato-crenatis supra pilosulis subtus pallidis ee pattn? u- 
lisque glandulosis consitis penninerviis nervis subtus paulo elevatis 
