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red, glabrous shoots, resinous buds, and crowded, stiff, widely 

 spreading, sharply pointed leaves, with marginal resin canals. 



It is an alpine tree attaining a higher altitude than any other 

 fir and forming forests in W. Szechuen at 12,000-14,000 ft. 



Gard. Chron. May 12, 1906, p. 299: PI. Wil-s. ii, 4S (1914). 



Abies sutchuenensis, Rehder and Wilson. ^ 



Abies Fargesii, var. sutchuenensis, Franchet.* 



A species based on a plant collected by Purdom on the banks 

 of Tow Pdver, Western Kansu, and said to be characterized by 

 its shining red or purphsh-brown glabrous branchlets, medium- 

 sized, symmetrical, scarcely resinous, violet -black cones, with 

 shortly cuspidate obovate-cuneate bracts and by its ascending, 

 stout, relatively short and broad leaves with a distinct yello\\ish 

 petiole and median resin canals. It is said to be distinguished 

 from A. Faxoniana by its glabrous shoots and scarcely resinous 

 cones ^ith non-exserted bracts. We have not seen specimens. 

 Young plants cultivated under this name at Messrs HiUiers' 

 nurserj^ Winchester, and elsewhere, have the shoots dark purplish 

 bro^n on the lower side. Leaves ascending, with a V-shaped 

 parting, dark green and grooved above, with two conspicuous 

 white bands on the lower surface, tapering to a bifid apex ; 

 resin canals marginal. 



Franchets varietj'^ sutchuenensis, based on a specimen from 

 Chengkou Ting,^LS said to be distinguished from A. Fargesi by its 

 leaves, which are obtuse, notched or acute on the same branch, 

 and marked ^ith white below. 



Abies Veitchii, Lindley. (Fig 27.) 

 Veitchs Silver Fie. 



Abies Eichleri, Lauche ; Picea Veitchii, 3*Iurray ; Pir.us selenolepis, 

 Parlatore. Shirabe. 



A fir 60-70 or more ft. high in the Japanese forests, where it 

 is generally of narrow, tapering, p\Tamidal habit, with a slender 

 trunk and short, slender branches. Bark smooth, pale grey or 

 white with prominent resin blisters. Young shoots bro^wTi, more 

 or less clothed with short down. Winter huds small, sub -globose, 

 purplish, resinous. Leaves arranged very like those of A. Nord- 

 manniajia, but softer to the touch ; those on the lower side of the 

 shoot horizontal and spreading at right-angles to the shoot, those 

 on the upper side shorter and pointing forwards but not pressed 

 to the stem so much as in A. Nordmanniana ; |— 1 in. long and 

 about iV in. -wide, flattened, gradually tapering to the base, apex 

 truncate, notched ; upper surface dark green, shining, grooved ; 

 lower surface with two conspicuously white broad bands of 

 stomata ; resin canals median. Cones cjdindrical, 3 in. long, 



^Pl Wile, ii, 48 (1914). * Joum. de Bot. xiii, 256 (1899). 



