22 WILSON EXPEDITION TO CHINA 



Finns Kaempferi Parlatore in De Candolle, Prodr, XVI. pt. 2, 412 (non Lam- 

 bert) (1868). 



Pseudolarix Fortunei Mayr, Monog. Abiet. Jap. 99 (1890). — Masters in Jour, 



Linn. Soc. XXVI. 557 (1902); XXXVII. 424 (1906). —Wilson in Gard. 



Ckron, ser. 3, XLII. 344 (1907). — Hemsley in Bot. Mag. CXXXIV. t. 



8176 (1908). 

 Laricopsis Kaempferi Kent in Veitck^s Man. Conif, 404, figs. 105, 106 (1900). 



August 



1742; tree 4-12 m. tall). 



This remarkable tree readies the western limits of its distribution on the 

 Lushan range in the Kiangsi province where it is rare and no large trees remain. 

 From this point it extends eastward to the neighbourhood of Ningpo where For- 

 tune discovered it. The first mention of the tree in western writings is found in 

 Barrow's Travels in Chinaj 536 (1804) where, speaking of the country south of 

 the Poyang lake (Kiangsi province), he says " the mountains between which the 

 river was hemmed in were covered with forests of the larch fir." No true larch is 

 known from this region and Barrow's tree cannot be any other than the Pseu- 

 dolarix. 



The Chinese name for this tree is " Kin-ye-sung " (Golden-leaved Pine) and 



refers to the autumn color of the leaves. It is perfectly clear that Lindley, in de- 

 scribing this tree from Fortune's material as Abies Kaempferi, thought he was 

 dealing with the " Larix conifera " etc., of Kaempfer {Amoen, 883), a plant which 

 Endhcher {Synop. Conif. 130) in 1847 referred to Abies leptolepis Siebold & 

 Zuccarini. This mistake, however, cannot invalidate Gordon's specific name for 

 Fortune's tree, since there is no older name to replace it. 



PICEA Link. 



Sect. I. EupicEA Willk. 



Picea asperata Masters in Jour, Linn. Soc. XXXVII. 419 (1906). 

 Beissner, Handb. Nadelholzk. 256 (1909). — Patschke in BoL Jahrb, 

 XL VIII. 633 (1913), 



Western Szech'uan: west and near Wen-ch'uan Hsien, forests, 

 alt. 2000-3300 m., June 1908 and October 1910 (Nos. 2080, 4046, 

 4047; tree 15-25 m. tall, girth 1-3 m.); west of Kuan Hsien, Pan-Ian- 

 shan, forests, alt. 2600-3800 m., October 1910 (No. 4066; tree 15- 



an 



abundant, August and October 1910 (Nos. 4731, 4061; tree 10-35 m. 

 tall, girth 1-3 m.); same locality, August 1903 (Veitch Exped. No. 

 3025, type). 



This is the common quadrangular-leaved spruce of northwestern Szech'uan, 

 and is more especially abundant in the department of Sungpan Ting where exten- 

 sive forests of this species occur. In general appearance it closely resembles the 



