160 PICEA ; OR 



PiCEA PiNSAPO VARTEGATA, Hovt. 



Syn. Abies Pinsapo variegata, Carriere. 

 „ Pinus Pinsapo variegata, Lawson. 



This variety differs in having a portion of its leaves, and 

 smaller shoots, of a pale yellow or straw colour, intermixed with 

 the ordinary bright green ones. 



No. 16. PiCEA Webbiana, Loudon, Capt. Webb's Indian Fir. 

 Syn. Abies Webbiana, Lindley. 

 „ „ spectabilis, Spach. 

 „ „ densa, Griffith. 

 „ „ bifida, Siehold. 

 „ ,, Chilrowensis, Hart. 

 „ Pinus striata, Hamilton. 

 „ „ spectabilis, Lambert. 

 „ „ tinctoria, Wallich. 

 „ „ Webbiana, Wallich. 

 „ „ bifida, Antoine. 



Leaves, solitary, at first scattered all round the shoots, but 

 finally more or less arranged in two rows laterally, from one to 

 two inches long, linear, flat, leathery, bidented on the end, of a 

 dark glossy green above, and furnished with two broad white 

 bands below. Branches, in regular whorls, horizontal, and 

 spreading ; branchlets, opposite, two-rowed, and stout j buds, 

 oval, covered with brown scales, and resinous. Cones, solitary, 

 erect, and of a rich purple colour, from six to seven inches long, 

 and about two and a half broad, cylindrical, blunt-ended, full 

 of resinous matter, and growing on the upper surface of the top 

 branches. Scales, deciduous, regularly wedge-shaped, leathery, 

 dilated on the upper part, and quite round on the margin, regu- 

 larly imbricated, and provided at the base with very short bracts, 

 much shorter than the scales. Seeds, soft, oblong, or angular. 

 Wing, thin, broad, and somewhat obovate. 



A noble tree, growing from seventy to eighty feet high, with 

 a tabular-formed head when old, found abundantly in the 

 Himalayas, at different elevations. Its lowest limit on the 



