' Tas. 6743. 
PICEA AJANENSIS. 
Native of Japan and the Amur River. 
Nat. Ord. Con1FERx.—Tribe ABIETINEX. 
Genus Pricora, Link.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 439.) 
Picka ajanensis; arbor erecta, ramis horizontalibus rigidis supra densissime 
foliosis foliis imbricatis subtus inter folia bifariam patentia nudis, foliis 3-3 
pollicaribus compressis linearibus acutis v. subacutis basi in pulvinum brevem 
abrupte contractis, facie ramo*aversa lzte viridi nitida medio lata elevata, facie 
contraria valde glauco-cerulea stomatibus creberrimis costa tenui marginibusque 
viridibus, strobilis in ramis terminalibus junioribus erectis oblongo-cylindraceis 
lete rubro-purpureis, maturis deflexis 1-2-pollicaribus utrinque attenuatis, 
squamis ovato-oblongis undulatis superne erosis, bracteis minutis, seminis ala 
.  ovato-oblonga, 
P. ajanensis, Fisch. ex Trautv. et Mey. in Middend. Reise, p. 87, t. 22, 24; 
Regel Fl. Ussur. p. 149; Trautv. et Maximov. Prim. Fl. Amur. p. 261; 
Carriere Traité Générale, p. 259; Masters in Gard. Chron, N.S. xiii. vol. i. 
(1880), p. 115, f. 22, and p. 212, f. 39, 40, 42; Regel et Tiling. Fl. Ajan. pp. 
119, 427, fig. 81 ad 84. 
P. jezoensis, Maxim. in Bull. Acad. Imp. Petersb. vol. xv. p. 235. 
ABIES ajanensis, Rupr. Pl. Mawim. p. 436; Pl. Maack. p.566; Lindl. et Gord. 
in Journ, Hort. Soc. Lond. vol. v. p. 212. 
Pinus Menziesii, Parlat. in DC. Prodr. vol. xvi. pt. 2, p. 418, quoad Plant. Asiat. 
A. Aleockiana, Hort. plur. et Murray, Pines and Firs of Japan, p. 66, guoad 
folia, 
A. sitchensis, Koch, Dendrolog. vol. ii. pt. 2, p. 247 (non Bongard.). 
Verrcuia japonica, Lindl. 
This is in several respects the handsomest of all the 
species of Picea, in so far at least as can be judged from 
somewhat young specimens. Though wanting the drooping 
larch-like habit of the Himalayan P. Morinda and the 
graceful branching of the Caucasian P. orientalis, it excels 
these and all others in the bold habit, the dark green of 
the shining foliage that clothes.the upper sides of the 
branches, where the leaves imbricate over one another as 
in Abies Nordmanniana and amabalis (true), and the 
beautiful glaucous blue white of that which appears on the 
under side. This effect of contrast is much heightened 
in bright sunshiny weather, when the tips of the branches 
turn up, disclosing to the eye the pale surface of the leaves. 
Add to this the rich vinous purple of the colour of the 
young cones, which is not surpassed in beauty by the violet 
MARCH Ist, 1884, 
