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SKETCH OF THE COXIPEES OP JAPAN 



niana ; but iii the latter tlie tip Is more thickened at the sides 

 and middle, and the base or insertion of the leaf also js larc^er 

 than in the former. The twist at the base also is more rapid. ° 



Pig. 62. 



Found by Mr. Veltch on Mount Fusi-Yama, at the elevation of 

 from 6000 to 7000 feet. He mentions that the Japanese say 

 that the species is peculiar to this mountain. 



Dr. Lindley, in naming this species (" Gardeners' Chronicle," 

 he. cit.), says, "I have named it after Mr. J. G. Veitch, whose great 

 merit as a very energetic explorer of the vegetation of Japan it 

 gracefplly records, xis to the Pine called by the same name by 

 M. Roezl. whether or not it is the same aa P. Bonapartea, as the 

 writer of the ' Pinetum ' surmises, is unimportant, since names so 

 published can have no place in Systematic Botany ; " to which 

 may be added, that even although it were not so, Roezl's name 



