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a 
appears to provide ideal conditions for these trees, for all are some- 
13,500 ft, Plate X XI. in “ Hooker’s Himalayan Plants,” gives a 
ood idea of the tree and the beauty of the half developed cones. 
he chief peculiarities of the species are its long, pendulous branches 
and large cones with prominent scales and bracts which are remark- 
able for their long reflexed tips. The cones are several times larger 
than those of other may being 25 to 3 inches in length. When 
young they are purple in colour. As the Strete Ralegh tree is 
coning profusely this year, it formed a conspicuous object in June. 
Though introduced as long ago as 1850, very few good specimens 
are to be found in the country. 
same forests as Larix Grifithii, It attains its largest dimensions in 
the Lachen Valley, where Sir J. D. Hooker measured a specimen 
specimen 1s 45 ft. in height, with a girth near the base of 9 ft. 2 ins. 
It is of graceful outline, and branched to the ground all round. A 
larger example is recorded by Elwes and Henry in “Trees of Great 
Britain and Ireland s vol. i1., p. 245, from Boconnoe in Cornwall. 
This is 53 ft. high, with a girth of 12 ft. S. Brunoniana was first 
cultivated in English gardens in 1838. 
at 2 ft. from the ground. ey 
appearance, but are lighter in outline, The genus was named in 
compliment to the late ee Consort, and from that the common 
] 
described as a genus with the 
male flowers of a Podocarp, the 
female flowers of a Dammar, the fruit of a Juniper, the seed of a 
