THE CONIFERS OF JAPAN. 519 



canals. In A. homolepis the leaves on the upper surface of the 

 branches are much shorter than those on the lower ; while in 

 A. brachyphylla they are almost all of the same length ; the 

 leaves of the former, moreover, are much more acute than in the 

 latter species. It is quite possible, however, that Mr. Syme's 

 opinion is correct ; but iu the absence of cones of A. homolepis the 

 balance of evidence seems to me to be decidedly in favour of the 

 distinctness of the present species. 



A. Mabiesii, Mast, in Gard. Chron. Dec. 20, 1879, p. 788, c. ic. 

 (Figs. 17, 18.) 



In Japonia septentrionali prope Awomori, et in Monte Nikko 

 alt. 3000-7000 ped. Maries n. 73, pro parte. V. v. sic. et 

 cult. 



This closely resembles A. brachyphylla — too closely, perhaps ; 

 but it has the young shoots hairy, the pulvini scarcely at all 

 prominent, more deeply sulcate leaves, with the resin-canals 

 subepidermal, not free ; larger, broader, and more barrel-shaped 

 cones, the scales of which are entire, not denticulate ; and the 

 bracts are denticulate and acuminate. From A. fir ma and the 

 form of that species known as holophylla, the present species 

 differs in the more prominent pulvini, the different form of the 

 leaves, the position of the resin-canals, the nearly entire cone- 

 scales, &c. 



A. sibibica, Turcz. Cat. Baih. ex Parlatore in DC. Prod. xvi. 

 2, p. 425 (1868); Begel, Fl. Ussur. 1862, p. 149; Ledebour: 

 Carriere', Antoine. 



Pinus Picea, Pall. Fl. Boss. i. p. 7, excl. syn. 



Pinus Pichta, Fisch. ex Loddiges' Cat. 1836, p. 50 ; Endlicler, 

 Conifer, p. 225. 



Picea Pichta, Loudon, Arboret. iv. p. 2338 ; Gordon, Pinetum, 

 p. 156, ed. 2, p. 221. 



Abies Pichta, Pinet. Woburnens. t. 39 ; BZenk. et Hochst. 



In Rossia boreali et media orientali, in Sibiriae et Davurise mon- 

 tibus, in Kamtschatka et in Mongolia ad fl. Amur. 



A. Fobtunei, Murray, Pines and Firs of Japan, p. 49, c. ic. 

 xylogr. 



Abies jezoensis, Lindl. in Paxt. Fl. Gard. 1850, p. 43, et in 

 Gard. Chron. 1850, p. 311, c. ic. xylogr. ; Van Houtte, Fl. des 

 Serves, vol. vii. p. 223, vol. xi. p. 7: Carriere, TraiU General, p. 255, 

 ed. 1 ; Gordon, Pinetum, ed. I, p. 17, ed. 2, p. 27 ; haud Siebold. 



