Carpinus 529 
Young plants were sent by Prof. Sargent in 1895 and 1897 to Kew, which have 
now attained about 1o feet in height. At Tortworth a young tree has produced 
fruit. 
The foliage of this species is remarkably distinct and handsome. (its Elid 
CARPINUS YEDOENSIS 
Carpinus yedoensis, Maximowicz, Mél. Biol. xi. 314 (1881); Burkill, Journ. Linn. Soc. (Bot.), xxvi. 
502 (1899); Franchet, Journ. de Bot. xiii. 203 (1899); Winkler, Betulacee, 35 (1904). 
A small tree. Young branchlets densely covered with long hairs. Leaves 
(Plate 201, Fig. 3), 24 inches long by 14 inch wide, ovate, acute at the apex, rounded 
at the base; margin biserrate and ciliate; upper surface with conspicuous bands of 
long appressed pubescence in the intervals between the lateral nerves; lower surface 
pilose on the midrib and nerves, glabrous or with scattered long hairs in the intervals 
between the nerves; nerves ten to twelve pairs; petiole, 2 to 4 inch long, pilose ; 
stipules, linear-lanceolate, caducous. Fruit: strobiles, 24 inches long; bracts loosely 
imbricated, 3 inch long, semi-ovate, coarsely serrate on the outer side, subentire on 
the inner side, which is slightly infolded at the base, forming a small auricle partly 
covering the nutlet. 
This species is only cultivated in Japan, where it was first seen by Maximowicz. 
It was discovered growing wild in the mountains of North-Eastern Szechwan in China 
by Pere Farges, and may have been brought to Japan by Buddhist monks in early 
days, like many other Chinese plants. Young plants were raised from Japanese seed 
in 1901 by Purpus, in the Botanic Garden at Darmstadt. In the nursery at Kew 
there are two or three plants, growing vigorously, and about 3 feet in height, which 
were obtained from Simon Louis in 1904. (A. H.) 
CARPINUS CORDATA 
Carpinus cordata, Blume, Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. i. 309 (1850); Sargent, Garden and Forest, vi. 
364 (1893), viii. 294, f. 41 (1895), and Forest Flora Japan, 65 (1894); Burkill, Journ. Linn. 
Soc. (Bot.), xxvi. 501 (1899); Shirasawa, Jcon. Ess. Forest. Japon, text 46, t. 24, ff. 18-32 
(1900); Winkler, Betulacez, 26 (1904); J. H. Veitch, Hortus Vettchit, 359 (1906). 
Distegocarpus (?) cordata, De Candolle, Prod. xvi. 2, p. 128 (1864). 
A tree, attaining in Japan and China a height of 50 feet and a girth of 6 feet ; 
bark, dark grey, deeply furrowed and scaly. Young branchlets covered with a very 
minute pubescence, intermixed with scattered long hairs. Leaves (Plate 201, Fig. 2), 
ovate, up to 5 inches long and 2 inches wide, acuminate at the apex, unequally and 
deeply cordate at the base; margin finely bi-serrate, non-ciliate ; upper surface dark 
green, with scattered long hairs; lower surface light green, pubescent between the 
nerves, pilose on the midrib and nerves, without axil tufts; nerves fifteen to twenty 
