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is esteemed for general building purposes and planking. The ripe cone is larger 

 than it is described by Patschke, being commonly from 10 to 15 cm. long. 



A picture of this tree will be found under Nos. 119, 0302 of the collection of 

 Wilson's photographs and also in his Vegetation of Western China, No. 339. 



Picea complanata Masters in Gard. Chron. ser. 3, XXXIX. 146, 

 fig. 57 (1906).— Beissner, Handb, Nadelholzk. ed. 2, 288 (1909). 

 Bean in Kew Bull. Misc. Inform. 1910, 174. — Patschke in BoL 

 Jahrb, XL VIII. 632 (1913). 



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

 alt. 2300-3000 m., July and November 1908 (Nos. 2083, 2075; tree 

 20-26 m. tall, girth 2.5-3 m.); Mupin, forests, alt. 2000—2600 m., 

 August and September 1908 (Nos. 2086, 2079; tree 10-20 m. tall, 

 girth 1-2.5 m.) ; near Wa-shan, woodlands and open country, alt. 2300 

 m., rare, September 1908 (No. 2081; tree 20 m. tall, girth 2 m.); same 

 locality, June 1903 (Veitch Exped. No. 3030, type in part, 3031); 

 south-east of Tachien-lu, open country and woodland, alt. 1600- 

 2300 m., July and October 1908 (Nos. 2077, 2076; tree 6-20 m. tall, 

 girth 1-2.5 m.); same locality, July and October 1903 (Veitch Exped. 

 No. 3032, type in part, seed No. 1530). 



This is everywhere a rare species as far as our knowledge goes, although it occurs 

 scattered over a large area. The timber is highly valued and in consequence the 

 tree has been ruthlessly cut. In woods this Spruce is pyramidal and shapely in 

 habit, but in open country it is commonly round-headed. The weak, lateral shoots 

 are flagellate and pendent, but are comparatively short. As in P. ascendens 

 Patschke, and P. Sargentiana Rehder & Wilson, the shoots vary considerably in 

 the amount of their pubescence, and the stouter ones are frequently nearly or quite 

 glabrous. The cone-scales are broad and truncate or rounded at the summit and 

 this character best distinguishes this species from P. ascendens Patschke, which 

 has rhombic, subacute cone-scales. The bark of P. complanata is pale grey, firm 

 and comparatively smooth except on old trees on which it becomes dark grey and 

 breaks up into irregular patches which remain firmly attached to the trunk. 



Like other Chinese species of the Omorika group this Spruce is colloquially 

 known as the " Me-tiao-sha." A picture of this tree will be found under Nos. 352, 

 353 of the collection of Wilson's photographs and also in his Vegetation of Western 

 China, No. 350. 



The specimen from Yunnan (" Ona-pen-Kesu sur le Ma-eul-chan, 2500 m,") 

 collected by J. M. Delavay (No. 4129) on August 7, 1889, referred by Franchet 

 {Jour,^ de Bot. XIII. 258 (1899)) to his Abies brachytyla (Picea hrachylyla Pritzel) 

 of which we have seen a fragment, in all probability belongs to P. complanata, 



Picea Sargentiana Rehder & Wilson, n. sp. 



Arbor 10-25-metralis, trunco 0.4-1 m. diam., cortice fusco-cinereo, 

 m lamellas tenues irregulares fisso; rami horizontaliter patentes, 

 leviter dependentes; ramuli hornotini brunneo-flavescentes, phis 



minusve elandiiHs brpvihns Rtinitatis vpstiti nraesertim in raTnulia 



