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same remarks apply to native specimens, quoted under numbers 

 in the Plantce Wilsoniance, which we have carefully examined. 

 The characters based on the size of the cones and shape of the 

 cone-scales are equally unreliable and appear to us to be largely 

 due to conditions of growth. 



Fig. 14.— pice a LIKIANGENSIS, var. PURPUREA, 

 a, spray ; b, winter buds ; c, under-side of leaf and shoot ; d, section of leaf. 



P. likiangensis may generally be recognized by its sub-com- 

 pressed, overlapping leaves and more or less hairy shoots. 



P. hirtella, Rehder and Wilson, of which we have seen no 

 living specimens, is closely aUied to if not identical with P. 

 likiangensis. It is not in cultivation. 



