244 '^^^ Trees of Great Britain and Ireland 



diversifolia, and is remarkable for its limited distribution. It occurs at elevations 

 of 2500 to 3000 feet, usually on dry rocky banks of mountain streams along the 

 Blue Ridge, extending from south-western Virginia through South Carolina to 

 northern Georgia. Sargent states that it occurs either in small groves or mingled 

 with other species, and describes it as a beautiful tree of compact pyramidal habit, 

 with dense dark-green lustrous foliage. Elwes saw it on the Blue Ridge in 1893, 

 and brought home young plants, which, however, died in a year or two. 



This tree was discovered in 1850 by Professor L. R. Gibbes. It was first 

 raised in the Arnold Arboretum in 1881, and has proved there quite hardy. It 

 was introduced from thence to England in 1886. There are two or three small 

 specimens in the collection at Kew which are three or four feet in height and 

 have a bushy, spreading habit. This species, judging from the slow rate of growth 

 at Kew, is not likely to attain to timber size in England, and we know of no trees of 

 any size living in this country. (A. H.) 



TSUGA BRUNONIANA, Himalayan Hemlock 



Tsuga Brunoniana, Carri^re, Traite Conif. 188 (1855); Hook, f., Gard. Chron. xxvi. 72, fig. 14 

 (1886), and Flora Brit. India, v. 654 (1888); Masters, Gard. Chron. xxvi. 500, fig. loi 

 (1886); Kent, Veitch's Man. Coniferce, 462 (1900); Gamble, Man. Indian Timbers, 718 

 (1902); Brandis, Indian Trees, 693 (1906). 



Tsuga dutnosa, Sargent, Silva N. Amer. xii. 60 (1898). 



Pinus dumosa, D. Don, Prod. Fl. Nepal. 55 (1825). 



Pinus Brunoniana, Wallich, PI. Asiat. Par. iii. 24, t. 247 (1832). 



Abies Brunoniana, Lindley, Penny Cyclop, i. 31 (1833). 



Abies dumosa, Loudon, Arb. et Frut. Brit. iv. 2325 (1838), and Brandis, Forest Flor. N.W. 

 India, 527 (1874). 



A tree forming in the Himalayas, according to Hooker, a stately blunt pyramid, 

 with branches spreading like the cedar, but not so stiff, and drooping gracefully on 

 all sides, attaining 120 feet in height and 28 feet in girth. In cultivation in England 

 it assumes a bushy habit, and never makes a clean stem, the trunk being con- 

 cealed by the dense pendulous branches. 



Bark thick and rough. Branchlets light brown in colour with a short and not 

 very dense pubescence. Leaves long, i to ij inch, narrow linear, gradually tapering 

 towards the acute and recurved apex, serrulate in margin ; upper surface dark green 

 and deeply grooved ; lower surface silvery white, the bands of stomata extending 

 almost to the margins. Buds globose, flattened on the top ; scales ovate, acute, 

 pubescent. 



Cones sessile, ovoid, an inch long, composed of about twenty-five woody 

 scales, which are nearly orbicular, vertically striate, shining, showing externally a 

 thickened ridge a little distance from and parallel to the thin entire margin ; bract 

 concealed. Seed two-thirds the length of the scale, with an oblong-ovate wing, 

 which is decurrent on the outer side of the seed to its base. 



