THE CONIFERS OF JAPAN". 



515 



As to Maximowicz's A. holophylla, Fig- 14. 



the only important difference between 

 it and the typical firrna resides in 

 the fact that in the latter the bracts 

 always project beyond the scales, 

 while in holophylla, they are much 

 shorter than the scales and concealed 

 by them. But among Mr. Maries' 

 cones (gathered, as I am informed, by 

 himself, from trees of indubitable 

 firma) some are quite indistinguishable 

 from the typical cones of holophylla 

 in the Kew Museum. Such variations 

 in the relative length of tbe scales and 

 bracts are not uncommon in Conifers. 

 The difference in the leaves (those of 

 holophylla entire and mucronate, those 

 of firma obtuse emarginate, or acute 

 and bifid) is even less important as a 

 character. 



A. beachtphtlla, Maximowicz, 

 Melanges Biolog. t. vi. p. 23 (1866) ! ; 

 Masters in Gard. Chron. Nov. 1, 1879, 

 p. 556, c. ic. xylogr. (Figs. 14, 15.) 



Pinus brachyphylla, Parlatore in 

 DC. Prod. xvi. 2. (1868), p. 424. 



P. firma, MacNdb, Proc. Boy. Irish Academy, 1876, p. 686 ! ; 

 nee Sieb. et Zucc. 



Picea brachyphylla, Gordon, Pinetum, ed. 2, p. 201 (1875). 



Nomina hortensia: Picea Veitchii, Picea firma, P. pinnosa. 

 An eadem ac A. homolepis, Sieb. et Zucc. ? 



In ins. Nippon, Maximowicz ! ; Maries, n. 259 ! 



The seedling plants of this species, brought from the slopes of 

 Fusi Yama by Mr. Maries, are not distinguishable from the bifida 

 form of A. firma. 



A. Veitchii, Lindley in Oard. Chron. 1861, p. 23 ! ; Veitch, I. c. 

 1862, p. 308 ; Murray ; Carriere ; Koch ; Bertrand (folia tantum); 

 Franchet et Savatier ; Mast, in Gard. Chron. Feb. 28, 1880, p. 275, 

 c. ic. (See Plate XX.) 



Picea Veitchii, Gordon, Pinetum, ed. 2, p. 226 (1875). 



»553 



Small-sized native specimen of 

 cone of Abies brachyphylla. 



