occurs in Sir Hdward Loder’s garden at Horsham, Sussex, 
where Picea morindoides has produced cones for the first 
time in this country. 
Dr. A. Henry identified Picea morindoides with the spruce 
collected by Sir Joseph Hooker in the Lachen Valley in 
Sikkim, which is referred to in the Himalayan Journal (vol. 11. 
p. 82) as Abies Smithiana; also with a spruce collected in 
Chumbi by Sir J. Ware Edgar, who was then (in 1877) accom- 
panied by Sir George King’s collector, Dungboo,—obtained 
again by Mr. H. KE. Hobson, when stationed at Yatung, and by 
Mr. E. H. C. Walsh during the Tibet Exhibition. To these 
specimens another collected by Dungboo in Chumbi in 1878 
and one obtained by Mr. R. Pantling in Sikkim (Herb. 
C. B. Clarke 46482) might be added, and it is also evident 
that Gammie’s Picea Morinda from the Lachung Valley 
(Rec. Bot. Surv. Ind. vol. i. No. ii. pp. 11, 19) is the 
same tree. In my opinion, there can be little doubt that 
Dr. Henry is right in his identification of those specimens 
with Rehder’s P. morindoides, although this implies the 
admission of a considerable range of variation in the shape 
of the leaf-points, the density of the foliage, the shape of 
the cone-scales, and to some degree also in the more minute 
details of the leaf anatomy. I have not accounted for this 
variability in the description above, which is drawn up from 
the cultivated tree, but do not consider it greater than that 
observable in the common European spruce. Dr. Henry, 
however, has gone one step farther and includes Griffith’s 
Abies spinulosa (Journ. pp. 259, 265; Itin. Not. p. 145, 
No. 694, and Jc. Pl. Asiat. t. 363) in Picea morindoides, 
which, if proved, would entail the change of the latter 
name into Picea spinulosa. Unfortunately there are no 
specimens of Griffith’s tree at Kew or at the British Museum, 
and it is very doubtful if there be any now in existence. 
I have therefore retained for the present Rehder’s name ; 
but I must admit that there is much to be said in favour of 
Dr. Henry’s view. Griffith’s description, so far as it goes, 
agrees well with Picea morindoides, and his figure tallies 
strikingly with a sketch of the Lachen spruce made by 
Sir Joseph Hooker. He collected “Abies spinulosa” on the 
slopes of the Rodoola Pass and the Tung-chiew Valley in 
Northern Bhootan (about 91° 30! E. long., and almost 
150 miles east of the Sikkim frontier), and describes it as a 
