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NEW JAPANESE EVERGREEN OAKS. 
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much deeper colour. The tree is stated to be a native of China, and is referred 
by Seemann to the Q. salicina of Blume, but Messrs. Veitch’s plant is Japanese. 
According to herbarium specimens, Q. salicina has very narrow entire and nearly 
sessile leaves, while in the Chinese Q. bambusifolia the leaves are minutely and 
sharply toothed, and provided with short stalks. 
