SKETCH OF THE CONIFEKS OF JTAFAN. 



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irom it. The seed in P. Koraieusls is not winged ; in Pimis 



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The leaves in the latter are short and 



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Fig. 12, 



Pig. 10. 



Fig. 11. 



Slight ; long and stoat in the former. The cone also differs 

 considerably ; the points of the scales are reversed m P. f «';«'^»^^^' 

 and not in P. parmjlom ; the unexposed back part of the cone 

 is deeplv hollowed by tl)e opposing cones in the former, and not 

 so In the latter. With regard to the cone Sxebold has made a 

 strange blunder ; lie has figured the cone o P. P^^'f^'^J' 

 that of P. Koraiensi., and given as figures of the ^f 'i^' f "^^: 

 thing ^^•bich is liker those of the common Cembra than ot th s 

 pine ; ^vhatever they Imve been taken from, they are not ts 

 seeds : but Siebold has detected thai somethmg was ^vrong af ei 

 the engiavlng of the plate, and in his explanation of Aejigm^^ 

 reaues^s the reader to cancel the figure of the cone and seeds in 

 his plate 116 (the former, as he says, having ^^^^\^^^f^^^ j^^^ .^ 

 depauperated cone), and to substitute other fignres of them in his 

 plate III.-- It is not, however, the figure of a depauperated 



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as may 



cone 01 M-. jyoraicnm^, wix^ tv ^^^^ >.* ^ - ^ ^ ^ 



seen by looking at figure 27, appended to the <iescnpt.on of that 

 species, which is copied from Siebolds plate._ The tiue cone 

 of P. Koraieusls figured above is from a specimen sv^p led by 

 Mr. Veitch. and exactly corresponds with the description m 



'"stboMlelis us that this species was probably -troduced W 

 the neighbouring Corea, that it is rare m Japan, and onlj fom^d 

 in the gardens and shrubberies around the temples^ He ha^ 

 received from Corcan mariners some cones with fresh seeas 



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* I have been .naUe to see his plate 141. It -^-^jJ^^^^JS*" " lUs lo'In' 

 access, and indeed I cannot find that it has ever heen P"^^^"- j^, .^eers 

 the ^pY of the work in the British Museum and I am told by _ 



there that they haye all that has heen published.— A. m. 



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