208 DE. MAXWEIiL T, MASTEES's CONTilIBUTIO:Na 



anatomical conformation is essentially the same (woodcut, fig. 31). 

 There is a layer of liypoderm beneath the epidermis, which en- 

 circles the homogeneous parenchyma of the leaf. The bundle- 

 sheatli is well marked. The resin-canals are placed one on each 

 side at the dorsal side of the leaf near the epidermis, and sur- 

 rounded by strengthening-cells. Engelmann attributes peripheral 

 ducts to this species ; but I find them just within the epidermis. 

 The historian of the genus JPinus also says there is little hypo- 

 derm, and none round the ducts. It is possible that there may 

 be some variation in these j)articulars, or Engelmann may not 

 really have examined the true P. FeuTce. That there is some 

 confusion is shown by the fact that in his tabular statement he 

 includes PeuJce among species with few strengthening-cells and 

 none round the ducts ; while in the more detailed notes he 

 mentions the hypoderm as forming a continuous layer. The 

 male catkins are in clusters of a yellow colour, each oblong- 

 obtuse (anther-crest roundish, pale violet). The stalk of the 

 cone and the cone itself, as shown in the illustration (fig. 30, 

 p. 200), are much shorter than in P* e^celsa, 



Endlicher, after alluding to other points of distinction from 

 P. excelsa^ goes on to describe the venation of the wing of the 

 seed as parallel, while in P. ewcelsa it is " torfcuose venoso- 

 reticulata." 



Pseudolarix Kaempferi, Gordon, (Plates IX. & X.) 



Senk 



Sodist 



Wfi 



Abies Ka;mpferi, Lindley in Fenny Cyclopcedia, p. 34, et in 

 Gard. Chron, 1854, p. 255, f. 455 ; A, Murray, Pines and Firs of 

 Japan^ 1863, p. 100, e. ic. :xylog. 



Larix Ksempferi, Carrilre in Flore des Serres^ xi. p- 97. 



Pinus Kaempferi, Lamlert^ Finns, ed. 3, p. vii, eooFarlatore in 

 DC. Frod. xvi. ii. p. 413 (1868), 



In moutibus Chinee oricntali-borealis provincise Che Kiang ad 

 3000 ped. circ. elev. Fortune ! 



The so-called Golden Larch Avas in the first instance botani- 

 cally described by Lindley in the 'Gardeners' Chronicle,' 1854, 



Kcempji 



(woodcut, fig. 32) 



one of the plants mentioned by Ka?mpfer in Japan. This, how- 



