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large size exist in this country [England]. The largest of these which I 

 know is at Biickland St. Mary, Chard, which a few years ago was nearly 

 40 feet high. It grows well for some years, and then suddenly and with- 

 out any apparent reason, sometimes in the middle of the summer, will 

 droop and die." (TF. J. Bean, Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British 

 Isles, vol. 2, p. 299, under Pyrus vestita.) 



39134. SoRBus iNsiGNis (Hook, f.) Hedl. Malaceae. 

 (Pyrus insignis Hook, f.) 



"A small, very robust tree, native of the Sikkim Himalayas at alti- 

 tudes ranging from 8,000 to 11,000 feet. The branchlets are nearly as 

 thick as the little finger, and the bud scales are rigid, chestnut brown in 

 color and shining. The younger parts are clothed with long, rather silky, 

 rusty brown wool, while the older parts are glabrous." (Hooker, Flora 

 of British India, vol. 2, p. 377.) 



39135. SoRBus MiCROPHYLLA Weuzig. Malaceae. ^ 

 (Pyrus microphylla Wall.) 



" This Pyrus, which is a native of the temperate Himalayas at 

 altitudes of 10,000 to 14,000 feet, is possibly only a form or young 

 state of P. foliolosa or aucuparia, but a very much more slender, sub- 

 scandent plant with more deeply serrate leaflets. The Sikkim variety 

 of this plant has red flowers, and the fruits are white or pale blue in 

 color." (Hooker, Flora of British India, vol. 2, p. 376.) 



39136. PouPABTiA AXILLARIS (Roxb.) King and Prain. Anacardiacea^. 

 (Poupartia fordii Hemsl.) 



" This is a rather common tree at low altitudes in western Hui>eli 

 and in Szechwan, and is chiefly confined to the valleys. It grows from 15 

 to 25 meters tall and the trunk is often a meter in diameter near the b.ise. 

 The branches are massive and form an oval or rounded head; the bark 

 is grey, deeply fissured and persistent; the leaves are deciduous. The 

 flowers are polygamodioecious ; the male and female flowers are borne 

 in many-flowered panicles which spring from the axils of scales antl 

 also from the axils of the lower leaves. The hermaphrodite flowers 

 are much larger than the unisexual flowers, and are borne in short 

 racemes which are commonly 1-flowered by abortion and never more 

 than 3 or 4 flowered. The leafy shoots bearing panicles of unisexual 

 flowers look very much like branches of Rhus succedanea L. The fruit 

 of this tree is yellow, oval, from 2.5 to 3 cm. long, rounded on the sum- 

 mit. It is eaten by the Chinese. The vernacular name is * Hsuan tsao.' " 

 (Sargent, Plantae Wilsonianae, vol. 2, p. 172-173, under Spondias 

 axillaris.) 



39137. Stybax hookeri Clarke. Styracace*. 



"This is a small tree frequently met with in Sikkim and Bhutan at 

 altitudes between 6,000 and 7,000 feet. The wood is white, close grained, 

 and moderately hard." (Watt, Dictionary of the Economic Products of 

 India.) 



39138. Stmplocos theaefolia Don. Symplocaceie. 



"An erect tree of the eastern Himalayas, from Nepal to Bhutan, oc- 

 curring at altitudes between 4,000 and 6,000 feet. It is also common ia 

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