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FRAXINUS MARIESII
- Fraxinus Mariesii, J.D. Hooker, Bot. Mag., 6678 (1883); Hemsley, Journ. Linn. Soc. (Bot.), xxvi. 86 (1889).
A small tree. Branchlets slender, terete, purple, minutely pubescent, especially towards the tip; lenticels white. Leaflets (Plate 264, Fig. 18) five, 1½ to 3 inches long, coriaceous, oval, acute or acuminate at the apex, base rounded or slightly tapering ; regularly and crenately serrate, occasionally entire in margin; glabrous beneath. Petiolules ¾ to ⅜ inch, scurfy pubescent. Rachis of the leaf purple, finely pubescent, grooved on its upper side.
Flowers very showy in erect panicles from the uppermost axils, about as long as the leaves. Calyx minute, four-cleft. Petals five or six, ¼ inch long, linear-oblong. Stamens two to four, as long as the petals.
This was discovered by Maries in the Lushan Mountains near Kiukiang in central China; and it has not been found elsewhere by subsequent collectors. Maries sent home seeds in 1879 from which the plant was raised by Messrs, Veitch. It flowered? for the first time, at Coombe Wood, as early as 1882.
It appears to be perfectly hardy in England, and is an ornamental small tree or shrub of considerable value, on account of the creamy-white large panicles of flowers,
which appear about the end of June, and the bronze tint of the foliage. (A.H.)
FRAXINUS RHYNCHOPHYLLA
- Fraxinus rhynchophylla, Hance, Journ. Bot., vii. 164 (1869); Franchet, P. Davidianæ, i. 203, t. 17 (1884) ; Sargent, Garden and Forest, vi. 484, fig. 70 (1893); Komarov, Fl. Manshuriæ, iii. 248 (1907).
- Fraxinus Bungeana, Maximowicz, Mél. Biol. ix. 396 (1874) (not De Candolle).
- Fraxinus chinensis, Roxburgh, var. rhynchophylla, Hemsley, Journ. Linn. Soc. (Bot.), xxvi. 86 (18809).
A large tree. Shoots glabrous, lenticels few and scattered. Terminal buds remarkable, obtuse, conical, somewhat four-sided, with four or six outer scales, which are ovate, strongly keeled, with acute points directed outwards, pubescent and grey on the dorsal surface, and densely ferruginous woolly pubescent on their inner surface and edges; lateral buds, ovoid to rounded, small, with two to four outer scales, directed outwards at an open angle.
Leaflets (Plate 265, Fig. 23) five to seven, coriaceous, stalked or subsessile, ovate to ovate-lanceolate; base cuneate ; apex with a long acumen, which is blunt or rounded and tipped with a short mucro ; margin remotely and crenulately serrate
! Hortus Veitchii, 367 (1906).