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the forms in cultivation are sufficiently distinct from one 

 another to be readily identified, but a certain number of 

 them resemble others either in habit or colouring of branch- 

 lets, etc., to such an extent that some rough classification 

 like that which follows may simpHfy their identification : 



Group I. 



Branchlets usually shiny, light orange-yellow; stiff 



and irregular in size. 

 Buds roundish and usually orange- yellow. 

 Leaves radial, dark to yellow-green; variable in size; 

 thick and roundish. 

 Var. nana. 

 Var. dumosa (of Kew, not Carrie re). White 



branchlets. 

 Var. capitata. 

 Var. Maxwelli (of Beissner, not Maxwell). 



Mahogany- coloured branchlets. 

 Var. Maxwelli (of Maxwell). 

 Group II, 



Branchlets very fine and small, grey- white or grey- 

 yellow. 

 Leaves needle-shaped, more or less radial. 

 Buds minute and obtuse; usually Hghter coloured 

 in centre of bud. Habit low and cushion-hke. 

 Var. Gregoriana. 

 Var. humilis. 



Var. pygmcea. Occasional extra stout branch- 

 lets. 

 Var. echinceformis. 

 Group III. 



Branchlets fine, white and shining. 



Buds conical and very red. Leaves fine, flattish, 



acuminate, tapering to sharp point; usually 



pectinately arranged. 



Var. Clanbrasiliana. 



Var. Clanbrasiliana stricta. (Leaves radial.) 



Var. Clanbrasiliana elegans. 



Var. brevifolia. 



