THE CONIFERS OF JAPAN. 507 



In Songaria, Schrenk ! ; in montibus Alatau, in Sibiria? 

 altaicae deserto Songoro-Kirghisico. 



P. Maximowiczii, Begel, Ind. Seminum, Hort. Petrop. 1865 

 (nomen tantum) ; Carriere ; Mast, in Gard. Chron. vol. xiii. 1880, 

 p. 363. 



Abies Maximowiczii, Bob. Neumann, Cat., ex Parlatore in DC. 

 Prod. xvi. 2, p. 431 (nomen) ; Gordon. 



A. obovata, var japonica, Maximowicz, Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. 

 1866, p. 5, ex Franchet et Savatier, Enum. PI. Jap. i. p. 466. 



In Japonia, Tschonoski ! 



This is a species concerning which little is at present known. 

 As seen in English gardens, it is a dwarf, compact Spruce- Fir with 

 glabrous brown shoots, and needle-shaped, 4-sided, spine-tipped 

 leaves spreading on all sides, almost Pi„ g^ 



at right angles to the stem. It 

 differs from all other Spruces known 

 to me in the presence of a single 

 resin-canal beneath the midrib, as 

 in the Hemlock-Spruces {Tsuga), 

 but which is sometimes absent. It Transverse section of the leaf of 

 seems allied to obovata, differing in Picea Maximowiczii ; magnified 

 its small stature and in the peculiar Im- 

 position of the resin-canal. It may be an immature or transitory 

 form of some other species. 



P. tianschanica, Buprecht, Sertum Tianschanicum, p. 72. 

 Aff. P. Schrenkianee. 

 Tian Schan. 



I only know this species by name ; and, indeed, it is, geogra- 

 phically speaking, out of the district to which this paper refers. 



P. poxita, Carriere, Traite Gen. des Coniferes p. 256, ed. 2, 

 p. 342 (1867); Mast, in Gard. Chron. Feb. 21, 1880, p. 233. 

 (See Plate XIX.). 



Abies polita, Sieb. et Zucc. Flor. Jap. ii. p. 20, t. iii. ; Lindley ; 

 Gordon; Murray; Veitch, in Gard. Chron. 1862, p. 308. 



Pinus polita, Antoine, Conif. p. 95, t. 36. f . 1 ; Parlatore in 

 DC. Prod. xvi. 2, p. 417 (1868). 



In montibus ins. Nippon, Veitch \, Maximowicz !, Maries ! ; 

 Korea. 



The resin-canals are two to each leaf, peripheral. 



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