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white-yellow; pulvini very strongly marked; branchlets 

 covered by appressed leaves set rather distantly apart. 



Leaves. — Radial; pointing forward, incurved and almost 

 appressed to branchlets from base to apex ; very thick and 

 wide, tapering from wide base to narrow acute but not 

 prickly apex; outer side strongly keeled and slightly 

 convex, | to J inch; shining yellow- green; about three to 

 five stomatic lines on upper and seven to eight on lower 

 sides. 



A most distinct form of uncertain origin, the plant at 

 Kew forming an irregular pyramid 4 feet by 3 feet ; it has 

 no relation to Carriere's and Beissner's " dumosa " — a 

 variety of var. procumbens — and I suggest that this is 

 probably var. capitata, Croux, which is thus described : " A 

 form brought into cultivation by Croux at Sceaux, France, 

 sending out branches like a bush in all directions. At the 

 end of the branches short shoots stand very close together 

 forming heads." This description is not sufficiently clear 

 to enable one to determine the matter absolutely, but 

 having regard to the manner in which the branchlets grow 

 in crowded tufts at the end of the branches, the name 

 " capitata " seems far more suitable for this form than 

 " duinosa.'" No other form that I have found in cultivation 

 comes anywhere near to this description of Croux' s form. 



P. excelsa, var. Ellwangeriana, Hort. 



Buds. — Conical, acute, orange- red, about J inch, upper- 

 most ranks of leaves growing out of and nearly conceahng 

 them. 



Branchlets. — Stout, stiff, bright orange; pulvini strongly 

 marked, crowded and fan-forming. Annual growth IJ to 

 2 inches. 



Leaves. — Arranged pectinately, branchlets bare below; 

 lower ranks of leaves fairly wide apart ; on some, branchlets 

 pointing nearly at right angles ; on others, forward. Those 

 above, fewer and pointing forward or across. About | inch 

 long; bright dark green, shghtly curving to both ends; 



