beautiful tree, disposed in beautiful groups and growing 
between 9,000 and 10,500 feet, which agrees fairly well with 
the limits of the spruce of the Lachen Valley in Sikkim, 
Picea morindoides belongs to the section Omorica which 
is chiefly developed in the countries bordering on the 
Northern Pacific, but, in the Old World, extends in dis- 
continuous areas as far as the Balkan Peninsula, where it is 
represented by P. Omorica, Pané. It is the only member — 
of the section known from the Himalaya. The nearest 
species, a link between it and P. ajanensis, appears to be 
P. complanata, Mast., from Szechuen. As I know it only 
from Dr. Masters’ description and figures in the Gardeners’ 
Chronicle (8rd ser. vol. xxxix. p. 146, fig. 57), I have 
refrained from referring to it in the diagnosis; but the 
resemblance seems to be very great indeed. P. complanata 
was discovered by Mr. E. H. Wilson in Western Szechuen, 
where it forms forests at an elevation from 5,000 to 8,000 
feet. 
To judge from the photograph of the Harl of Annesley’s 
tree which is reproduced in the Gardeners’ Chronicle for 
May 5th, 1906, Picea morindoides will certainly be a 
valuable addition to our hardy trees. 
Deser.—A tree of regular conical growth with spreading 
whorled branches; branchlets glabrous, slender, pendulous” 
or the upper spreading, yellowish when young, turning 
grey after the third year; leaf-cushions abruptly sub- 
eylindric from a broad base, with a terminal rhomboid scar 
and concave sides. Leaf-buds ellipsoid or obovoid, obtuse, 
+ in. long, pale brown, slightly resinous; scales obovate, 
very obtusé, thinly scarious. Leaves needle-shaped, slender 
with fine sharp points, 1-14 in. long, ;);—s!y in. broad, dor- 
sally compressed, rhomboid-elliptic in transverse section, 
with obtuse edges and midrib, green on the back, with two 
whitish-glaucous lines on the (morphologically) upper side, 
the lateral always turned by a twist of the leaf-cushions, so 
as to expose the green side to the light maximum ; stomata 
on the glaucous side in 4—6 rows on each side of the midrib ; 
resin canals 2, dorsal, near the edges and close to the 
sclerenchymatic hypoderma, sometimes very short or absent. 
Male strobili rose-coloured, elongate-ellipsoid, up to # in. 
long, 1 in. in diameter, with scales at the base resembling 
oO? 3 . . . . 
those of the leaf-buds; connective with an orbicular, irregu- 
