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Rh 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.

A small tree. Young branchlets densely covered with long hairs. Leaves (Plate 201, Fig. 3), 2½ inches long by 1½ 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, ⅜ to ½ inch long, pilose ; stipules, linear-lanceolate, caducous. Fruit: strobiles, 2½ inches long; bracts loosely imbricated, ¾ 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 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 2¾ 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