622 DR. MAXWELL T. MASTERS ON 



Keteleeria Fortunei, Carriere, Revue Horticole, 1866, p. 449, 

 c. ic. ; et in Traite General, ed. 2, p. 260. 



In China ad templum prope Foo-chow-foo, Fortune n. 50, 52 ! 



A transverse section of a leaf shows a continuous layer of hypo- 

 derm cells and parenchymatous resin-canals, one on each side, 

 and not surrounded by strengthening-cells. 



To the late Andrew Murray is due the credit of disentangling 

 the synonymy of this remarkable species. It is, however, not 

 quite clear whether he intended to rank it among the Spruces or 

 among the Silvers ; in fact, he placed it in both sections. But, on 

 the whole, it would appear as if he preferred to place it among the 

 Silver Firs (Abies of Continental writers, Picea of English gar- 

 dens). Carriere well points out that the appearance of the plant 

 differs from that of any other Conifer yet known — that its cones 

 are those of a Silver Fir (Abies), but its scales are persistent, not 

 caducous. On these grounds he established for it the genus 

 Keteleeria ; but Mr. Bentham (Benth. et Hook. Gen. PI. vol. iii. 

 1880) refers it to Abies (Juss., Link), with the remark "est veri- 

 similiter Abietis species, strobili squamis diu persistentibus." 



Fortune is the only botanist who has met with the plant in its 

 native country ; and he only saw one tree in a temple-garden near 

 Foo-choo-foo, and conjectures that it may have been intro- 

 duced. 



Fossil remains referred to Abies have been met with in various 

 strata, from the Miocene to the Oolite. 



Labix, Mill. ; Benth. et Hook. 



L. davurica, Turczaninow, Cat. PI. Baic. in Bull. Soc. Imp. 

 Nat. Mosc. 1838, p. 101 ; Trautvetter ; Carriere, excl. syn ; Gor- 

 don, excl. syn. ; RenJc. et Hochst. 



Abies Gmelini, Buprecht, Fl. Samoj. p. 56, ex Parlatore. 



Pinus davurica, Fischer, ex Turcz. Cat. Baik.n. 1072, ex Parla- 

 tore in DC. Prod. xvi. 2, p. 410. 



In Sibiria arctica et orientali, in Davuria, Ajan, Amur, ins. 

 Cadjak, in ins. Sachalin teste Schmidt ! in China boreali, Bret- 

 schneider ! ; Amur, Maximowicz ! 



L. leptolepis, Endlicher, Conif. p. 130 ; Gordon ; Murray. 

 Pinus Larix, Thunberg, Fl. Jap. p. 275, excl. syn. 

 Pinus leptolepis, Parlatore in BC. Prod. xvi. 2, p. 410. 

 Abies leptolepis, Sieb. et Zucc. Fl. Jap. p. 12, t. 103 ; J. G. 

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



