Abies 
Smithiana 
136 ARBORETUM NOTES. 
CONIFERZ! ABGISTINAE. 
range in elevation from 6,500 to 10,000 feet and in 
latitude from 30°45 to 32.°. My brother Henry ina 
tour among the mountains to the north-west from 
Simlah, found this and the pindrow growing 
mixed together in the forests, an exception, he 
observed, to the general rule, that the several 
species of Pines and Firs on those mountains 
erow separately. According to Madden, it is 
common on the mountains of Cashmere, above 
the Cedar forests, in company with Pinus excelsa 
and Abies pindrow. 
The Abies Smithiana appears to be quite hardy 
with us; it was not at all hurt by the winter of 
1860-61. 
There is a remarkably fine tree of this species 
in Lady Cullum’s Grounds, at Hardwick :— 
much taller and larger than either of ours, though 
planted later. Perhaps the soil is more 
favourable. 
The name of Morinda, by which gardeners 
generally call this Fir, has no authority and seems 
to be founded on a mistake as to the native name. 
Among the many native names for it mentioned 
by Major Madden, I do not observe that of 
Morinda, but this name is mentioned by him as 
given, in one part of the range, to Abies (picea) 
pindrow. The usual native name for our Abies 
