654 CXLIV. CONIFERÆ. (J. D. Hooker.) [ Picea. 
bark tessellated. Leaves dark green, stiff. Cones 4—6 by 1-2 in. diam., obtuse ; 
scales rounded, concave, dark brown and shining. Seeds 3 in long with the obliquely 
truncate wing. 
11. TSUGA, Carriére. 
Evergreen trees. Leaves more or less distichous, narrow, 1-nerved, 
petiole very short, jointed on the branch. Cones small, ripening in the 
first year, scales few, persistent, thin, not thickened at the tip.— Species 
about 7, a Himalayan, a Japanese and several N. American. 
T. Brunoniana, Carr. Conif. 188; branches spreading, branchlets 
pendulous pubescent, leaves 3—1 in. narrowly linear white beneath margins 
recurved tips serrulate, cones 1 in. ovoid, scales obtuse. Abies Brunoniana, 
Lindl. in Penny Cyclop. i. 91; Griff. Itin. Notes 191, No. 529. A. 
dumosa, Loud. Arb. iv. 2325, f. 2233, 2234. Pinus dumosa, Don Prodr. 
55; Parlat. in DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 429; Lamb. Pin. Ed. 2, ii. 7 ; Ed. 3, 80, 
t.46. P. Brunoniana, Wall. Cat. 6061; Pl. As. Rar. ii. 24, t. 247 ; Endl. 
Conif. 84; Antoine Conif. 82, t. 32, £.1. P. decidua, Wall. mss —Taxacee, 
Griff. Notul. iv. 28; Ie. Pl. Asiat. t. 375. 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, from Kumaon to Bhotan, alt. 8-10,500 ft. 
A tree, attaining 120 ft., with 28 ft. girth of trunk; branchlets very slender ; 
bark thick, rough. Leaves 1, in. broad, caducous after the branch is cut, dark 
green. Cones terminal, erect or horizontal. Seeds j in. long with the oblong 
obtuse wing; nucleus very small. 
12. ABIES, Juss. 
. Lofty evergreen trees with tabular branches. Leaves more Or less 
bifarious, linear, rarely 4-gonous, l-nerved, jointed on to the branch. Cone 
erect, cylindrie or oblong, scales very many, thin, tip hardly thickened, 
deciduous, leaving a woody axis as in Cedrus, bract more or less free under 
the scale and sometimes produced beyond it.—Species about 18, N. Tem- 
perate and Arctic. 
A. Webbiana, Lindley in Penny Cyclop. i.30; leaves 1-2 in. linear 
flat retuse or bicuspidate rarely rounded or subacute white beneath on 
either side the midrib, cones oblong or cylindric dark purple. scales mue 
longer than the bracts, seeds with a broadly obovate truncate wing. 4 
in Linnea, xv. 932; Forbes Pinet. Woburn. 117, t. 41; Griff: Notul. iv. 19; 
Le. Pl. Asiat. t. 871; Brand. For. Fl. 598; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 408. 
A. densa, Griff. Journ. 258; Notul. iv. 19 (Itin. Notes 141, Nos. 662, 663) 
A. spectabilis, Spach Hist. Phaner. xi. 422. Picea Webbiana, Loud. 
Arboret. iv. 9344, f. 2251-2253; Cleghorn Pines of N.W. Himal. t. À 
Pinus Webbiana, Wall. in Lamb. Pin. Ed. 3, 77, t. 44; Cat. 6058 (by 
error 5058); Endl. Conif. 106; Antoine Conif. 61, t. 24, f. 1; Parlat. 1? 
DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 425. P. striata, Ham. mss. P. spectabilis, Lamb. Pm. 
Ed. 2, ii. 3, t. 2; Don Prodr. 55. 
TEMPERATE and SUBALPINE HIMATAYA, alt. 7-12,000 ft. in the west, and 
8500-13,000 ft. in the east.— DısrkIB. Affghanistan. wn 
A lofty black stout tree, attaining 150 ft., and a girth of trunk of 30 ft.; eom 
cylindric, branches horizontal flat. Leaves spirally arranged but more T 
bifarious, very variable in length, persisting for 8—10 years, flat, about 4; 
channelled down the middle, very dark green and shining, tip very variable ; 
raised beneath; petiole very short. Male cones sessile, solitary oF dace: 
