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deep-green, with a slight glaucousness on the under side. 

 Branches, verticillate and spreading. Cones, from 4| to 

 4f inches long, cylindrical, smooth, dark purplish color ; 

 scales, rigid, entire, wedge-shaped; bracts, very small, 

 rounded, emarginate. Seeds, small, angular, very resin- 

 ous, shining-brown color, with large, pale brown wings. 



Although a remarkably beautiful and noble tree in its 

 native habitat, with us it is extremely precarious. Accord- 

 ing to Dr. Royle, it grows from 80 to 100 feet, with widely 

 spreading branches, and is found at an elevation of 1,000 

 feet above the level of the sea. Gordon says, it is " found 

 abundantly in Bhotan from 11,000 to 12,000 feet of eleva- 

 tion." 



Our experience, like that of many other cultivators of 

 this species, has been so very discouraging that we are 

 forced to pass it by as one of those trees that are natives 

 of a high elevation,which do not succeed in a less even, but 

 perhaps warmer temperature. Although our plants have oc- 

 casionally been defaced in severe winters, we have found 

 our hot summer suns to be much more injurious to them 

 than excessive cold, and even in the milder climate of 

 England, Gordon recommends planting them when young, 

 in a northern aspect, or screening them from the mid-day 

 sun. 



There is a close resemblance between this species and 

 A. Webbiana, but Don remarks that " the former is readily 

 distinguished from the latter by its longer and acutely 

 bidented leaves of nearly the same color on both surfaces, 

 and by its shorter and thicker cones, with trapezoid-formed 

 scales, and rounded, notched bracteoles." 



36, A, Pinsapo^o&sfcer. PINSAPO FIR. Syn. PiceaPin- 

 sapo, London. Leaves, -J- to { of an inch long, very stiif, 

 sharp-pointed, crowded, scattered regularly round the 

 shoots, deep green above, and slightly glaucous below. 

 Branches and branchlets exceedingly numerous, the former 

 in whorls. Cones, from 4 to 5 inches long, cylindrical or 



