SKETCH OP THE CONIFERS OF JAPAN. 429 



the branchlets, between 2 and 3 inches long, and about I in 

 diameter: scales (fig. 107), very persistent, \Yith scarcely any 

 pedicel, cuneate towards the base, obtusely rounded at the 

 apex, the margui of which is ragged or subcrenulate, deeper 

 red, or purplish brown where not covered, except on the inner 

 side, where the ^vings of the seeds have lain, where the colour is 

 paler, and of the same hue as the wings ; where the surface 

 is exposed the texture is somewhat pergaminous; where it is not 

 exposed, it is downy or tomentose. Bracts obsolete. Seeds (fig. 

 108), with a long narrow cinnamon-coloured wing nearly three 

 times the length of the seed, at no place twice its width, ovate 

 towards the top, widest about a third from the top ; the wings of 

 some of the imperfectly developed seeds wider (fig. 100), The 

 seeds are covered on one side by the wing, but the other side is 

 merely surrounded by a thickened rim, .so that the seed may 

 easily be wholly detached from the wing leaving in the wing a 

 cup-shaped depression where it had lain. It differs in this 

 respect from the Piceas, where the wing is lapped round the seed, 

 leaving only a small longitudinal or triangular portion of the seed 

 visible, whilst here the whole of one side is uncovered ; and from 

 many of the true Pines, which have the seed held in the wing by 

 a thickened rim, but when detached leave an open circlet like an 

 empty spectacle-eye. The seed itself is rhomboidal, with the 

 obtuse angles rounded ; the side which has been covered by the 

 wing is downy, the other side streaked or marbled with blackish- 

 brown (fig. 110). 



A noble tree, discovered by Mr. J. G. Veitch, in September, 

 1860, during a trip taken by him and Mr. Alcock, Her Majesty's 

 minister at the court of Jeddo, to the mountain of Fusi-Yama, and 

 named in honour of that gentleman. Mr. Veitch tells us that 

 the timber is good, and that numbers of trees are being con- 

 stantly felled and sold in the neighbouring towns. 



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Abies iricROspKEMA {Limlley). 



Abies microsperma, Lindley, in Gardeners' Chronicle (l;2th Jan., 



1801). 

 Veitch, in dttto (5lh April, 1802). 

 ,, „ Journal of Hort. (notitise sed baud figura), 



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A. foliis linearlbus angustis plano-subtetragonis apiculatis 

 subtus glaucis, 6-10-lineatis, phylluhs rhombeis, pulviuis apice 



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