p. MORINDOIDES AND BREWERIANA 123 



Group II. — Omorica, Breweriana (Shoots 

 Pubescent) 

 The Breweriana, which shows a fastigiate-looking 

 crop of leaves, is still rarer. Probably at this moment 

 the length of all the trees of this species in cultivation 

 with us here would not reach higher than the length 

 of a long man, 6 ft. high in his stockings. If ever the 

 day dawns when either the Morindoides or Breweriana 

 has learnt to flourish in our country, there will not 

 be, we apprehend, much difficulty in dealing with 

 their identities. 



All these Weeping Spruces exhibit a certain out- 

 ward and visible resemblance. While the Smithiana 

 (or Morinda) and the Shrenkiana have four-angled 

 leaves, the Himalayan Morindoides and the American 

 Breweriana sport flat leaves, an emphatic difference 

 easily discerned. 



As between the Morindoides (or Spinulosa) and the 

 Breweriana, there exist these marked differences. 

 The branchlets of the Morindoides are glabrous and 

 the branchlets of the Breweriana pubescent. Again, 

 the cones of the Morindoides are rather larger at the 

 base than they are at the top, and the margin of their 

 cone scales are frayed ; while those of the Breweriana 

 are narrow at both extremities, especially so at their 

 very marked tapering base. The margins of their 

 cone scales also differ, and are rounder in shape and 

 entire on margin. 



