any size now in England were dug up in the woods of 
China and sent home in Wardian cases. In cultivation 
this species, like many of its race, prefers a loamy soil and 
a hilly or undulating situation. I would advise the 
possessors of very small plants to keep them in shady 
places during the hot summer months. In nature the 
young plants are all reared under the shade of trees.” 
Pseudolariz Fourtunei is apparently a rare tree in its 
native country. Fortune found it only in the Province of 
Chekiang ; Franchet records it, with doubt, from Kiangsi, 
and Wilson states that it occurs wild on the Lushan, 
Kiangsi, where, however, he found only a few small trees. 
In this country it is still uncommon ; the finest specimen 
we have seen is in the gardens at Penjerrick, near Falmouth. 
Although perfectly hardy, it cannot be said to flourish at 
Kew, where there are several trees. One of these, near the 
clump of Celtis australis and Quercus Ilex, to the left on 
entering the gardens from Kew Green, flowered profusely 
in June, 1907, when the drawing was made. Fully 
developed cones followed in abundance on the uppermost 
branches, containing apparently fully developed seeds, 
even to the albumen, but no embryo was formed. The 
only perfect seeds we have seen are some of Fortune's 
collecting, preserved in spirit at Kew, from one of which 
was obtained the previously undescribed embryo. 
Descriprion.— A tree with the habit and appearance of a 
larch, sometimes as much as 120-130 ft. high ; branches some- 
what stratified, as in the Cedar of Lebanon. Leaves deciduous, 
needle-shaped, usually 1-14 in. long, sometimes as much as 
3 in. long on vigorous shoots, thin, flexible, not prickle- 
pointed, whorled and stellately spreading in the lateral 
spurs, spirally arranged in the primary branches. Male 
catkins clustered at the tips of lateral spurs without any 
leaves below, recurved, including the slender stalk about 
in. long. Anthers about 20 in each catkin. Female 
catkins globose, about 2 in. in diameter, borne at the tips of 
lateral spurs, with a few spirally arranged leaves below. 
Cone ovoid-oblong, 13-2 in. long. Scales 2-seeded, ovate, 
$—14 in. long, obtuse or notched at the tip, leathery, woody 
at the base, shortly stalked, loose, spreading, falling with 
the seeds, Seeds winged, equalling the scales, and, as the 
