211 
I, Lehmannt, Hk. f. et Thoms.; leaves ovate, crenate, pedicels 
aan at the top of the peduncles, flowers rose-coloured or 
purplish, variable in size, capsule linear, locerred or deflexed. 
t. 7500-11,000 ft., Gataere, Harriss, Toppin, Wall and 
Stirling 
ae Distrib E. Afghanistan southward to the Kurrum Valley and 
ab 
4, oi Flemingti, Hk. f.; leaves ovate, serrulate, bracts minute, 
flowers small, white or pale pink, capsu a es slender, erect. 
Chitral, Gatects: i in Herb. Hort. Petrop. 
Distrib, southward to ws and mitt to Kiashtwar. 
I. Thomsoni, Hk. £. ; leaves ovate, crenate, bracts at base of 
Bete elongate, very narrow, flowers rose-coloured or purplish, 
oe linear or subclavate, deflexe 
Chitral, Wall and Stirling 
Distrib throughout the Wan Himalaya ; alt. 8000-10,000 ft.. 
sii ik 
4, Harrissii, Hk, f.; leaves ovate, crenate, peduncles 2-flowered, 
= ovate-lahocolate, membraneous, flowers rose-coloured ? 
capsules short, narrow. <A doubtful species. 
Chitral, Harriss, i in Herb. Hort. Petrop. 
858 & brachycentra, Kar. et Kir.; leaves crenulate or crenate- 
serrate, peduncles many-flowered, ’ flowers very minute, white, 
capsules slender, erect, clavate. 
Alt. 7000-9000 ft., Gatacre, Harris, Toppin. 
Distrib. southward and westward to Kurrum Valley, Afghanis- 
tan, and eastward to the borders of Nepal, ascending to 14,400 ft. ; 
also Alatau Mts. in Russian Asia. 
a straight or decurved lobule, capsules linear or clavate, erect— 
very variable in size and habit. 
Alt. 6000-8500 ft., Gatacre, Har 
Distrib. S.E. to Kulu; alt. 3000-9500 ft., frequent. 
XXV-—_NOTES ON TREES SUITABLE FOR EXPERI- 
MENTAL FORESTRY. 
W. DALLIMORE. 
Though but a small number of trees are grown to an 
considerable extent under forest conditions in the British Isles, 
there are others which would be well worth a trial, for it is 
probable that some of them would turn out to be quite as useful as 
the few exotic species which hold their own with native trees in 
our woodlands, were the lanted under similar conditions. 
are at least two, Douglas fir and “Sitka ‘spruce, which have but 
recently emerged from the experimental stage as regards forest 
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