Pterocarya 443 



This species is readily distinguished by the peculiar buds, which are formed 

 early, and by the scars at the base of the shoot, left by the fall of the bud-scales of 

 the previous year. The buds at first are long, conical, with a curved beak, and are 

 covered by a funnel-shaped membranous sheath, which is composed of two external 

 and two to three internal glabrescent glandular scales. The scales fall off in 

 November, leaving four or five narrow scars at the base of the buds, which in this 

 stage resembles in structure those of P. caucasica, but are whitish and densely 

 tomentose. Lateral buds usually solitary at some distance above the leaf scars. 

 Twigs quite glabrous, otherwise as in P. caucasica. (A. H.) 



In Japan this is a large tree known as Sawa gurumi, which I saw in the central 

 provinces of Hondo, where it grows to a height of 50 to 60 feet, old trees attaining 

 a girth of 8 or 10 feet. It generally grows on the banks of streams in mixed 

 forest, and did not seem to be very common or to be valued for its timber, though 

 I got a specimen of the wood from the Government sawmills at Atera, which is now 

 at Kew. 



Sargent found it very abundant on the slopes of Mt. Hakkoda, in the north of 

 Hondo, at 2500 to 4000 feet elevation, where it attains as much as 80 feet in height, 

 being next to the beech the largest deciduous tree in the forest. It is a broad- 

 topped tree with stout spreading branches, and when covered with its long hanging 

 slender racemes of fruit, is very handsome. It is hardy at the Arnold Arboretum 

 near Boston and produces seeds there. 



Pterocarya rhoifolia is recorded by Diels ^ as having been collected by Von 

 Rosthorn in the province of Szechuan in China. 



It seems to have been introduced into cultivation by the Duke of Bedford, 

 to whom seeds were sent from Japan in 1889. Young plants from some of this 

 seed were raised at Kew in 1890; and these have now attained about 12 feet in 

 height. They are the only specimens we have seen in England. 



(H. J. E.) 



PTEROCARYA STENOPTERA 



Pterocarya stenoptera, C. de Candolle, Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. IV. xviii. 34 (1862); Lavallee, Arb. 

 Segrez. Icones, 65, t. 19 (1885); Franchet, /wr«. de Bot. 1898, p. 317. 



A tree, 50 to 60 feet in height, with a girth of stem of 6 or 8 feet. Bark 

 rough. Leaves (Plate 125, fig. 2) about a foot in length; rachis covered with 

 bristles, slightly swollen at its insertion, and having on each side a conspicuous 

 irregular membranous wing, occasionally slightly serrate in margin. Leaflets nine 

 to twenty-five, opposite or ahernate, terminal leaflet often wanting; coriaceous; 

 under surface with a few scattered glands, and some pubescence on the midrib and 

 nerves and in their axils ; oblong or oblong-lanceolate ; acute at the apex, unequal 

 and rounded or narrowed at the base, finely and sharply serrate in margin, 3 to 5 



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1 Flora von Central China, 274 (1901). 



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