Tas. 8176. 
PSEUDOLARIX Forrvunst. 
China. 
CONIFERAE. Tribe ABIETINEAR. 
Pseupo.artx, Gord.; Benth et Hook. J. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 442, in nota sub 
ce, 
Pseudolarix Fortunei, Mayr, Monogr. Abiet. Jap. 1890, p. 99; Mast. in Journ. 
Linn, Soc. 1902, vol. xxvi. p. 557, et 1906, vol. xxxvii. p. 424; EH. H. Wiis. 
in Gard. Chron. 1907, vol. xlii. p. 344; species unica. 
Arbor interdum usque ad 85-40 m. alta, aspectu Laricis europaeae, 
sed ramis magis divaricatis, monoecia, Folia acicularia, decidua, 
y ima basi articulata, 2-8 em., sed saepius 3-4 cm. longa, 1-5-2 mm. lata, 
glabra, tenuia, flexilia, vix acuta, subtus obscure 2-sulcata, costa supra 
leviter elevata, canalibus resiniferis 2 intramarginalibus et 1 (vel interdum 
2?) mediano instructa, in ramis lateralibus valde abbreviatis 80-40 vel 
pauciora, intra perulas parvas obtusas scariosas totidem biseriatim quasi- 
verticillata, confertissima, recta, stellatim radiata, in ramis primariis dissite 
spiralia, basi semi-torta, internodiis brevibus; cataphylla intra folia 
numerosa, lineari-acuminata. Amenta mascula oblongo-cylindrica, in 
ramulorum lateralium brevissimorum aphyllorum apicibus numerosa 
(plerumque 25-30), fasciculata, graciliter stipitata, recurva, cum stipite 
aequilongo circiter 1 cm. longa; fasciculi bracteis tenuibus scariosis 
obovatis stipites fere aequantibus involucrati; ramuli floriferi nunc cum 
ramulis omnino similibus foliiferis intermixti, nunc separati. -Antherae in 
quoque amento circiter 20, biloculares, transversim bivalvatim dehiscentes, 
connectivo non producto vel sursum in appendicem filiformem apice 
integram vel dentatam extenso. -Amenta Jeminea globosa, 1-5-2 cm. 
diametro, ad ramulorum lateralium apices terminalia, foliis paucis plane 
spiralibus fulta. Ovula 2, prope squamae basin affixa, reversa. Strobilus 
ovoideo-oblongus, 4-5 em. longus, erectus. Bracteae ovato-lanceolatae, 
5-8 mm. longae, integrae vel obscure denticulatae, squamis basi adnatae et 
demum cum iis deciduae. Squamae seminiferae ovatae, 2-8 cm. longae, 
1°3-1°5 em. latae, obtusae vel bifidae, leviter undulatae, coriaceae, basi 
ano tone, breviter stipitatae, laxae, divergentes, cum seminibus maturis 
adnatis deciduae. Semina sub quaque squama 2, samaroidea, alata, squamam 
aequantia. Hmbryo clavatus, in albuminis centro rectus, circiter 4 mm. 
longus, infra cotyledones leviter constrictus; cotyledones 4, circiter 1 mm. 
longae, arcte conniventes.— Abies Kaempferi, Lindl. Gard. Chron. 1854, 
pp. 255 et 455, cum figura coni, quoad plantam Fortuneanam tantum et excl. 
synon. Kaempf. et Lamb., non Lindl. in Penny Cyclop. 1833, vol. i. p. 34; 
Fortune, A Residence among the Chinese, 1857, p. 274, cum figura habitus, 
et in Gard. Chron. 1860, p.170; Murray, The Pines and Firs of Japan, 1863, 
pp. 97-108. Larix Kaempferi, Carr. in Flore des Serres, 1856, vol. xi. p. 97; 
Miq. Prol. Fl. Jap. 1867, p. 389; Franch. et Savat. Enum. Pl. Jap. 1875, 
vol. i. p. 466, excl. synon. Kaempf. et Lamb. ; Franch. Pl. David. i. p. 286. 
Larix amabilis, Senilis [E. Nelson], Pinaceae, 1866, p. 84. Pseudolarix 
Kaempferi, Gord. Pinetum, 1858, p. 292, excl. synon. Lamb.; Eichler in 
' Engl. & Prantl Natiirl. Pflanzenf. 1889, vol. ii. 1, p. 77, f. 83; Mast. in 
Gard. Chrop. 1884, vol. xxi, pp. 581 et 584, ff. 112 et 113; Journ. Linn. 
Soc. 1886, vol. xxii. p. 208, tt. 9 et 10. Laricopsis Kaempferi, Kent in 
Veitch’s Man. Conif. new ed. 1900, p- 403, ff. 105 et 106. 
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