PICE A 115 



Beissner (ii. 237) describes it as a luxuriant form of 

 upright growth with ascending branches, red-yellow 

 bark and some monstrous branchlets, habit resembhng 

 var. eremita, and thick erect, very stiff, sharp-pointed 

 leaves. 



If Carrie re's description is correct — and it is so similar 

 to that of Beissner and Gordon that one has no reason to 

 doubt it — the pseudo-Maxwelli form referred to above 

 cannot possibly be var. mucronata, as it differs from the 

 description of the latter variety in habit, growth, and 

 colour of leaves and branchlets, and the only form 

 which approaches the description is a form very close 

 to var. pyramidalis gracilis, but of stronger, stouter 

 growth, and forming a wider pyramid. 



This form is constantly exported from Dutch and French 

 nurseries as vars. " Gregoriana, Clanhrasiliana, pygmcEa,'' 

 etc., and is met with in cultivation under these and several 

 other names, and it may be thus described: 



Buds. — From yV to xV inch; conical, acute, red-yellow. 



Branchlets. — Annual growth 1 inch to 21 inches; stout 

 and stiff; the larger branchlets being unusually thick, 

 often growing erect at the ends of ascending branches (in 

 which case having leaves arranged radially); bright red- 

 yellow, pulvini very strongly marked. Branchlets very 

 crowded, fan-forming and cupped, and pointing forward 

 and up, or directly up. 



Leaves. — Dark shining green; stiff, stout, and sharp- 

 pointed; very crowded on branchlets and imperfectly 

 radial or pectinate; those below point out and slightly 

 forward, those above very crowded and point forward; 

 almost uniform in width ; strongly keeled ; slightly curved, 

 apex tapering abruptly. Size varying with strength of 

 shoot from J to J inch. About three stomatic lines on 

 each side. 



A strong- growing wide pyramidal shrub with ascending 

 branches and branchlets; occasional branchlets being 

 unusually strong and stout. 



