410 Lieut.-Col. Madden on some Plants 



Pinus Picea,W. Common Spruce Fir. Hingwal Ka Ch^hota 

 Saral, i. e. Small Alpine Pine, pp. 83-96. 



No. 2064. Pinus striata : Pinus Picea, Hamilton's Nepal, 83, 

 96. Hingwal Ka Ch'hota Saral (Alpium parva Pinus), Hindice. 

 Habitat in Nepalse alpibus. On the label, " leaves very odorous.^' 

 This is Picea Webbiana, and is identified by Wallich, No. 5058 

 (for 6058), Pinus Webbiana : P. striata, Ham. 



Neither Wallich nor Hamilton has the Himalayan Spruce 

 (Abies Smithiana, or Morinda) from Nepal ; it is also absent 

 from Kumaon, but is common both east and west of these pro- 

 vinces. 



P. excelsa is figured by Wall. PL As. Rar. iii. t. 201 ; but 

 t. 246, P. Smithiana, errs in exhibiting the cones erect. 



Catalogue, No. 2063. Pinus Strobus. Gobiya Saral monta- 

 norum, Hindice. Habitat in Nepalse alpibus. (The native name 

 belongs to the last.) Weymouth Pine, p. 83. Pinus excelsa, 

 which is very near to P. Strobus. In Lambert's 'Description of 

 the genus Pinus,^ it is characterized as follows : — " This species 

 approaches so near in habit and in the figure of its cones to 

 P. Strobus, that were it not for the simple round membranous 

 crest of the anthers, it would be almost impossible to distin- 

 guish their limits as distinct species. The leaves of this species 

 are considerably longer than those of P. Strobus, and the cones 

 larger." P. Strobus has " antherarum crista omnium minima e 

 setis duabus erectis brevissimis." Mr. D. Moore of Glasnevin 

 informed me that it is, in Ireland, less hardy than P. excelsa. 

 A variety of this in our Horticultural Society's Garden, with 

 short leaves, removes one of the differences on which Lambert 

 relies. Colonel Markham (Shooting in the Himalaya, 213, 214) 

 says that, in Kunawar, " torches are made from the Cheel Pine, 

 which, being full of turpentine, burns beautifully, and gives a 



capital hght The gum of the Cheel is held in great 



estimation for its healing qualities throughout the hills." So 

 Hooker, Journals, ii. 45. 



The Salla of Dr. Hamilton is Pinus longifolia, also called 

 Chir, a species occasionally introduced into our Pineta, but 

 quite unfitted to endure the severity of our winters, being a 

 semi-tropical plant. 



It is observable that Dr. Hamilton nowhere mentions the 

 Deodar, which he could scarcely have failed to procure had it 

 been indigenous to Nepal. When in India, with very scanty 

 materials for an opinion, I came to the conclusion that we have 

 no evidence of its existence till we come to Garhwal, though it 

 is usually quoted as a native of Nepal : a reference to Dr. Wal- 

 lich's Catalogue establishes the correctness of this conclusion, 

 for under his No. 5060 (for 6050 ?) we have "Pinus Deodara, 



