ARBORETUM NOTES. 135 
CONIRERAL 
ABIETINEZE. 
Cones have been produced more or less freely, eee 
for several years past, and this autumn (1869) they 
are in abundance on the finer of the two trees (the 
one near the great Douglas Fir). They have the 
same situation and direction as those of the common 
Spruce, and are like them in general form, but 
rather thicker in proportion, blunter at the end 
and a little more tending to an oval figure. At 
Maes present time (October, 1869), they are of 
a bright green colour (contrasting rather strongly 
with the colouring of the foliage), of a very 
smooth, glossy and neat appearance; the scales 
not quite one inch broad, convex, very smooth, 
fery, entire at the “edge, closely and neatly 
imbricated. 
This tree seems to belong chiefly but not exclu- 
sively to the more western parts of the Himalaya, 
especially to the parts about the valleys of 
the Ganges and the Sutlej. Dr. Hooker men- 
mentions it only once in his explorations of Sikkim. 
Major Madden* says it is rare in that province, 
and confined to valleys of the inner range at 
8000 to gooo feet, mixed with Abies brunoniana, 
mat seldom exceeding 50 feet in height.» In 
Kumaon, he says, it is not found. Dr. Hofmeister 
who travelled up the valley of the Ganges, and 
thence North westward, assigns to this Fir a 
* Journal of Horticultural Society, Vol. 5. 238. 
