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AIIBORK/IUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



PART III. 



Nov. Act. Acad. Nat. Cur., 3. ; Apr 

 t. 13. f. 2!). 44. : Pall. Ross., 1. t. I. f. 

 F. ; Wooav. Med. Bot., t. 209. ; Reit 

 und Abel. Abb., t. 98. ; N. Du Ham., 

 5. t. 8-2.; our y/^. 2237. of the natural 

 size, and Jig. 2238. to our usual scale ; 

 and the plates of this species in our 

 last Volume. 



Spec. Char,, ^c. Leaves soli- 

 tar}', flat, obtuse; ^-ranked, 

 with their points turned up. 

 Cones axillary, cylindrical, 

 erect ; scales with a long 

 dorsal bractea. Anthers with 

 a short crest, with two teeth, 

 (Lois.) Buils short, egg- 

 shaped, blunt; of a reddish 

 yellow, with from 16 to 20 

 bliuit scales. Leaves from 

 ^in. to 1 in. long, stiff, turned 

 up at the points; of a shining 

 dark green above, and with 

 two lines of silvery white on 

 each side of the midrib be- 

 neath. Cones from Gin. to 

 8 in. long, and from 1 a in. to 

 2 in. broad; cylindrical; green 

 when young, afterwards red- 

 dish, and, when ripe, brown. 

 Scale i in. to 1 i in. long, and 

 1;} in. broad. Seeds variously 

 angular, | in. long, and y\ i". 

 broad. Cotyledons 5. The 

 l)lossoms appear in May, and 

 the cones are matured in the 

 October of the followingyear. 



Varieties 

 IP. 



* P. 



p. 2 toriuosa Booth has 

 the branches and 

 branchlets remarkably 

 twisted or crooked. 

 There is a plant in 

 Messrs. Loddiges's ar- 

 boretum 'S ft. high. 

 p. Sfo/iis I'ariegnfis has 

 the leaves variegated. 

 There is a fine plant 

 of this variety, about 

 4 ft. high, in the col- 

 lection of the Rev. 

 Theodore Williams, 

 at Hendon ; and the 

 lower branch of a 

 large tree at White 



Knights has become variegated, from which we have brou 

 tmgs, and presented them to the Horticultural Society an 

 Hammersmith and Fulham Nur.series. ' ' 



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