Abies.| CXLIV. CONIFERA. (J. D. Hooker.) 655 
Fem. cones 4-6 by 134-3 in. diam., ripening in the same year, top and base rounded ; 
puter margins of scales rounded. Seeds oblong or obovoid, with the wing 4-1 in. 
ong. 
VaR. Pindrow, Brand. For. Fl. 528; leaves longer (2-3 in.), cones usually 
slender and cylindric. A. Pindrow, Spach l. c. 423. Picea Pindrow, Loud. 
Arboret. iv. 2346, f. 2254, 2255. P. Herbertiana, Madden mss. P. Naphta, 
Knight in Loud. Encycl. of Trees, 1053. Pinus Pindrow, Royle Ill. 354, t. 86; 
Endl. Conif. 106; Lamb. Pin. iii. t. 92; Antoine Conif. 62, t. 24, f. 1. P. Naphtah, 
Antoine Conif. S0. Taxus? Lambertiana, Wall. Cat. 6056.—N.W. Himalaya, in 
better soil and in more sheltered places than Webbiana proper.—The question of 
the specific distinctness of P. Pindrow has long been a subject of doubt, Dr. 
Brandis has decided against its claim. Royle figures the cone as pale purple, 4$ by 
34 in., and seeds } in. long. 
13. LARIX, Miller. 
.. Tall pyramidal trees. Leaves in dense clusters, acicular, deciduous, 
Jointed near the base, l-nerved. Cones of Picea, but erect, with the bract 
often exserted beneath the scale.—Species 8, N. Temperate and Arctic 
regions, 
i. Griffithii, Hook. f. & Thoms. Ill. Himal. Pl. t. 21 (excl. f. 1-4); 
branchlets long pendulous, leaves 1 in. slender, cones cylindric, bracts 
exserted twice the Jength of the scales, with reflexed cuspidate tips. Brand. 
For. Fl. 531; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 410. L. Griffithiana, Gord. Pinet. 
126; Carriére Conif. Ed. 2, 359. Abies Griffithiana, Lindl. § Gord. in 
Journ. Hort. Soc. Lond. v. 214. Pinus Griffithii, Parlat. in DC. Prodr. 
XV1. ii. 411, 
Eastern NEPAL, Sixxrm and Buotay, alt. 8-12,000 ft. 
A small tree, 20-60 ft., with pale-green foliage; bark thick, brown ; heart wood 
Leaves 30-50 in a cluster, linear, flat. Cone erect from the pendulous branch- 
lets, 2-3 in, long; bracts persistent, obovate-spathulate, notched, the cusp longer than 
the bract. Seeds oblong, wing oblong twice as long as the nucleus.—The male 
flowers figured in * IIl. Himal. Pl.” are those of Cedrus Deodara, which were mixed 
with specimens of Z. Grifithii in Griffith's collections. 
Orper CXLV, CYCADACEIE. (By W. T. Thiselton Dyer.) 
Shrubs or small trees, with a thick simple (rarely forking) stem and 
namal crown of leaves, or stemless with leaves arising from a tuberous 
sible or branched rootstock. Leaves in alternate series of short coriaceous 
0 “6s and of palm-like pinnate rarely 2-3-pinnate leaves with membranous 
r coriaceous leaflets, lowers dioecious; males in one or more terminal 
bene. formed of numerous fleshy flat or variously peltate scales bearing 
han crowded 1-celled anthers ; females of flat carpellary leaves (carpo- 
thi 5) crowded round the apex of the stem (Cycas) or cones of flat or 
either ne variously peltate scales. Ovules large, sessile, orthotropous, 
solita; numerous and erect in notches on either margin of the carpophyll or 
TY and inverted on either side of the peltate scales. Seeds large, dru- 
albu "5, external coat more or less fleshy, internal crustaceous or bony ; 
iios, COPious, fleshy then horny, and with one or more embryonic 
attaches emery usually single by abortion, slender, radicle superior 
ed to the crumpled suspensory cord, cotyledons 2. —Genera 9, species 
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