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tree in the park at Godinton, Kent, which is about 60 feet high, 1o feet 4 inches in girth below the graft, and 8 feet 8 inches above it.

There is a fine tree growing at Escot, Ottery St. Mary, Devonshire, the residence of Sir John Kennaway, which was in 1905, according to Miss F.H. Woolward, 61 feet in height, with a girth of stem at 5 feet up of 6 feet 9 inches, the circumference at the base being 11 feet 9 inches. This tree flowers abundantly every year. Another at Carclew is 50 feet by 9½ feet.

A tree, about 60 feet high, grows near the stables at Tottenham House, Savernake, the seat of the Marquess of Ailesbury ; a photograph of this tree, which was taken in June 1908, from the roof of the stables, shows it in full flower.

There is a good tree at Kew, close to the North Gallery, which measured, in 1907, 42 feet by 5 feet; and another, on the mound, near the Cumberland gate, is 60 feet high and 7 feet 6 inches in girth at three feet from the ground, dividing above into three main stems.

At Syon there is a tree 62 feet by 6 feet 6 inches, and good trees occur at Beauport, Sussex, and Whiteaway, Devon. A very fine one is reported by the Hon. Vicary Gibbs to be growing at Rook’s Nest, near Oxted, Surrey. At Brocklesby Park, Lincolnshire, a tree was 50 feet by 7 feet 1 inch in 1904.

In Scotland there is a tree at Gordon Castle about 50 feet high.

In Ireland, a tree at Fota measures 65 feet by 5 feet 6 inches; and trees about 40 feet high are growing at Narrow Water, near Warrenpoint, in Down, and at Glenstal, Limerick.

Henry saw specimens in the botanic gardens at Copenhagen and Christiania, about 40 feet high and 3 feet in girth, in 1908. (H.J.E.)

A large tree, attaining in the Himalayas over 100 feet in height. Shoots com- pressed, purple, glabrous, with scurfy glands; lenticels white and prominent. Leaflets (Plate 264, Fig. 17), seven to nine (rarely five), the upper pair subsessile, the others on glabrous petiolules, 4 to 6 inches long, oblong, except the terminal one which is obovate, base unequal and rounded, apex long-acuminate, midrib and principal veins prominent and pubescent beneath, regularly and sharply serrate. Rachis of the leaf winged, the wings enclosing a broad open groove on the upper side, pubescent in the groove and at the insertions of the leaflets.

Flowers (section Ornus) in large panicles; corolla lobes, ¹⁄₈ to ¹⁄₆ inch, linear-oblong. Samaras very narrow, obtuse or emarginate.