131. CONIFER x. 559 
6. Larix thibetica, Franchet in Journ. de Bot. 1899, p. 262. 
SZECHUEN : Tachienlou. (Prince Henry of Orleans !), Tongolo 
mountains (Soulié, 292!). Herb. Paris. 
[In addition to the foregoing species of Larix, mention may 
be made of a species of which only the cone is described in 
Franchet’s ‘Plante Davidiane, sub n. 912, in the following 
terms :—“ Strobili 3-4 cent. long., circiter 15 mill. lat., cylindracei 
obtusi; squams e basi cuneata rotundate margine integro; 
bracteæ ovato - lanceolate integre squamas eequantes. Pro 
ceteris arbor ignota. 
CHENSI MERIDIONAL dans les hautes montagnes." 
An P. chinensis, Beissuer ?] 
132. CYCADACE. 
(By Sir W. T. THISELTON-DYER.) 
1. Cycas revoluta, Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 229; A. DC. Prodr. xvi. 
2, p. 526; Lamarck, Encycl. à. p. 232; Franch. et Savat. 
Enum. Pl. Jap. i. p. 475 ; Smith in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. (1802) 
p. 312, tt. 29, 30 ; Bot. Mag. tt. 2963, 2964. 
Cycas inermis, Loureiro, Fl. Cochinch. p. 632. 
Formosa (G. Phillips!); Yunnan (Chi-wu, xxxvi. p. 43) ; 
Kwanast: Lungchow (H. B. Morse!) ; Kwanetone: Swatow 
(male plant, G. Phillips !), without locality (Dr. C. Wenyon!) ; 
LucHv AzcnuiPELAGO: Harbour Island (“cultivated agriculturally 
in great quantities,” Licut. Alfred Carpenter!) Herb. Kew. 
Japan (spontaneous only t Southern Island, Franch. § Savat.). 
Tonkin (on calcareous rocks at Haiphong, Balansa). 
* This tree, much cultivated in China as an ornamental plant, 
bears at Peking the popular name T’ie-shu (iron tree)," Bret- 
schneider, Study and -Value of Chinese Bot. Works, p. 43. The 
Lungchow plant is a reduced form which grows in clefts of 
rocks; that from the Luchu Archipelago has glabrescent 
carpophylls. ©. inermis only differs in its unarmed petioles. 
2. Cycas Rumphii, Mig. in Bull. Sc. Phys. et Nat. Néerl. 
1839, p. 45; A. DC. Prodr. xvi. 2, p. 527; Dyer in Hook. f. 
Fl. Brit. Ind. v. p. 657. i 
Kwaxaruxe : Swatow (G. Phillips!) Hort. Kew. 
