292 PSEUDOLARIX ; OR 



Gen. PSEUDOLARIX. Gordon. The False or Chinese 



Larch. 



Flowers, monoecious, or male and female separate, but on the 

 same plant. 



Cones, oblong, pendant, brittle, and like the head of the 

 common Artichoke, covered with divergent scales. 



Scales, very deciduous, extended at the points, heart-shaped 

 at the base, and enclosing at the bottom two soft-coated seeds. 



Seeds, irregularly shaped, with a soft, thin, whitish, skin-like 

 covering, more or less enclosed by the wing, but free, and full 

 of turpentine. 



Wings, oval lanceolate on the outer side, but quite straight on 

 the inner one, and entirely covering the inner face of the scale. 



Leaves, deciduous, soft, linear, flat, and collected in bundles 

 on the adult plants, but scattered singly along the young shoots, 

 and very long on the young plants. 



Seed-leaves, from five to seven in number. 



Name derived from ' Pseudo,' false or bastard, and ' larix,' 

 the Larch. The false or Chinese Larch. 



A noble hardy tree, of great commercial value, found by 

 Dr. Fortune, in the central and North-east provinces of China, 

 and very distinct from the European Larches, in the cones 

 having deciduous scales, with divergent points. 



PsEUDOLAiiix Kjempferi, Gordon, the Golden or Chinese Larch. 

 Syn. Larix Ka^mpferi, Fortune. 

 „ Abies Kgempferi, Lindley. 

 ,, Pinus Krempferi, Lambert. 



Leaves, in bundles on the adult branches, and singly on the 

 leading shoots and young plants, very slim, linear-lanceolate^ 

 tapering to the point, and quite deciduous ; from one inch and 

 a half to two inches and a half long, and rather more than one 

 line broad, of a beautiful light green when young, but before 



