Tas. 6753. 
ABLES RELIGIOSA. 
Native of Mexico. 
Nat. Ord. Contreru.—Tribe ABIETINEX. 
Genus Apress, Juss.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 441.) 
Anizs religiosa; ramis pendulis ultimis hirtellis, foliis ramo undique laxe insertis 
sub-bifariis patentibus anguste linearibus rectis vy. curvulis planiusculis obtusis 
v. acutis basi tortis pulvinis parvis facie superiore leviter sulcatis viridibus, 
inferiore utrinque coste fascia pallida notatis, strobilis masculis oblongis v. 
oblongo-cylindraceis obtusis folio subduplo brevioribus, femineis maturis 
sessilibus 4~6-pollicaribus oblongo-cylindraceis obtusis violaceis, squamis vix 
unguiculatis late obovato-spathulatis glabris marginibus integris puberulis, 
bracteis late oblanceolatis apicibus triangularibus acutis exsertis crasse costatis 
recurvis, seminibus cum alis oblique obovatis nucleo angusto. 
A. religiosa, Schlecht. in Linnea, vol. v. p. 77; Lindl. in Penny Cyclop. vol. i. 
p- 6; Carriere Conif. p. 202; Hemsley Biolog. Centr. Amer. vol. iii. p- 190; 
M‘Nab in Proce. R. Irish Acad, ser. 2, vol. ii. p. 676, t. 46, f. 2. 
A. hirtella, Zindl. 1. e. 
Picea religiosa, Loud. Arboret. vol. iv. p. 2349, £. 2257; Gord. Pinet. p. 153, 
ed. 2, p. 212. 
P. glaucescens, Gord. Pin. ed. 1, p. 149. 
Pinus religiosa, H. B. et K. Nov, Gen. et Sp. vol. ii. p.5; Lamb, Pin. ed. 3, 
p- 76, t.43; Antoine Conif. p. 75, t. 28, £2; Endlich. Cenif. p. 92; Parlator. 
in DC. Prodr. vol. xvi. p. 420. 
P. hirtella, H. B. et K. lec. ; Antoine l.¢. p. 80; Endlich. l.c. p. 98. 
Apparently a widely distributed Silver Fir in the. moun- 
tain forests of Mexico, at elevations of 8000 to 10,000 feet, 
but descending to 4000 in some places. It is a very 
handsome umbrageous species, with longer branches and a 
more pendulous habit than its northern allies, either 
American, as A. nobilis, grandis, lasiocarpa, &e.; or 
Kuropean, as A. pectinata. It is, unfortunately, tender in 
this country, fine specimens being only to be seen in the 
southern and western counties and in Ireland. That from 
which the specimen here figured was procured forms a 
singularly handsome tree in the superb collection of 
Conifers at Fota Island, Cork, the well-known seat of 
May Ist, 1884, 
