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and there (figs, 58 and 59, outer and inner side); the bracts 

 wedge-shaped towards the base, rounded truncate at the apex, 

 with a small tooth, being the continuation of the midrib, projecting 



Fig. 58. 



Fig. 59. 



Fig. 60. 



Fig. 61. 



iu the middle. The seeds (fig. 60, and fig. 61 the same magnified) 

 fawn-coloured, wedge-shaped, with a very slight ridge or keel on 

 each side, and also one up the middle of the face, the outer testa, 

 as usual, open behind ; the wing short, transverse, projecting at an 

 obtuse angle from the seed itself, with the edge falcate, blackish- 

 brown, darkest towards the edge. Seed itself enveloped in an 

 inner coat, which is downj, but apparently irregularly inter- 

 rupted, an appearance which arises from limpid resin having 

 accumulated in spots under the epidermis. 



This is a very distinct species, having the smallest cone of any 

 Picea yet known. Mr. Vcitch speaks of it as intermediate 

 between F. nohilis and P. Nordmanniana, In this he must refer 

 to the foliage and general port of the tree, for the cones have 

 nothing in common, the small, narrow, apparently bractless cone 

 of P. Veitchii being a perfect contrast to the magnificent, large, 

 well-bracteated cone of P. nohilis and Nordmanniana, The foliage 

 is more nearly allied to P. Nordmanniana than to P. nohilis (fig. 62). 

 The leaves, as in it and P. amabilis, are disposed on the uj)per 

 face as well as on each side of the branchiets, but they are shorter, 

 thicker, and with the margins and midrib on the under side more 

 thickened. The number of rows of stomata on the under side is 

 about the same iu both, viz., seven. The emargination at the 

 tip is also nearly so, but, if anything, greatest in P. Nordman- 



