20 CONIFERS AND TAXADS OF JAPAN 



PINUS ARMANDI Franch. 



Pinus Armandi Franchet in Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, ser. 2, VII. 95, t. 12 (PI. 

 David. I. 285) (1884); in Jour, de Bot. XIII. 254 (1899). Beissner in Nuov. 

 Giorn. Bot. Hal. n. ser. IV. 184 (1897). Masters in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 549 

 (1902); XXXVII. 415 (1906). Clinton-Baker, III. Conif. I. 6, t. (1909). Elwes 

 & Henry, Trees Gr. Brit. & Irel. V. 1043 (1909). Stapf in Bot. Mag. CXXXVI. 

 t. 8347 (1910). Mottet in Rev. Hort. 1910, 423, fig. 177-188. Shaw in Sar- 

 gent, PI. Wilson. I. 1 (1911); II. 12 (1914); Gen. Pinus, 30, t. 9, fig. 96-99 (1914). 



Pinus quinquefolia David, Voyage de Chin. I. 192 (name only) (1875). 



Pinus koraiensis Beissner in Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. n. ser. IV. 184 (not Siebold & 



Zuccarini) (1897). Masters in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 550 (1902); XXXVII. 



415 (1906); in Gard. Chron. ser. 3, XXXIII. 34, fig. 18, 19 (1903). 

 Pinus scipioniformis Masters in Bull. Herb. Boiss. VI. 270 (1898). 

 Pinus mandshurica Masters in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXVI. 551 (not Ruprecht nor 



Murray) (1906). 

 Pinus Mastersiana Hayata in Gard Chron. ser. 3, XLIII. 194 (1908). 

 Pinus Armandi, var. Mastersiana Hayata in Jour. Coll. Sci. Tokyo, XXV. art. 19, 



215, fig. 8 (Fl. Mont. Formos.) (1908). 

 Pinus levis Lemee & Leveille in Fedde, Rep. Spec. Nov. VIII. 60 (1910). 

 Pinus excelsa, var. chinensis Patschke in Bot. Jahrb. XLVIII. 657 (1912). 



The specimens I have from wild trees of this interesting addition to the flora 

 of Japan I owe to the kind services of Mr. T. Miyoshi and to the courtesy of his 

 chief, Dr. Naito, head of the Government Forestry Bureau at Kagoshima, to 

 whom Dr. H. Shirasawa wrote on my behalf. When at Yaku-shima the forestry 

 officers told me that the Goyo-matsu (P. parviflora S. & Z.) grew there in limited 

 numbers and also on the neighboring island of Tanega-shima. That this species 

 should grow on the lofty, rocky Yaku-shima seemed to me quite natural, but that 

 it also grew wild on the low narrow ridge which forms the backbone of Tanega- 

 shima was quite another matter. I became rather sceptical as to the identity of 

 this Pine and urged the officers to procure material for me, since I had not the 

 time to visit the places myself. On my return to Kagoshima I saw growing in a 

 garden a White Pine which looked to me like P. Armandi. It bore no cones, but 

 I dried a vegetative shoot. Later, in Tokyo, Mr. T. Makino gave me cones and a 

 branch, which he had collected in the garden of Prince Shimazu at Kagoshima. 

 These most certainly belonged to P. Armandi and settled the question of this 

 species being grown in gardens at Kagoshima. This suggested the idea that the 

 Goyo-matsu of Tanega-shima and Yaku-shima might belong here, and on talking 

 over the matter with Dr. Shirasawa he concurred in the probability. 



In the autumn of 1914 I received from Mr. T. Miyoshi the promised specimens 

 from the two southern islands. The material bore immature cones, of small size 

 and superficially like those of P. parviflora S. & Z., and I was uncertain as to what 

 species they belonged. On my return home I handed the specimens over to Mr. 

 G. R. Shaw, the authority on the genus Pinus, and after a careful examination he 

 pronounced them to be of P. Armandi. To satisfy myself I have now critically ex- 

 amined this Japanese material and find that the shoot, leaves, position of resin- 

 ducts, the wingless seeds, with the spermoderm forming a narrow border and a 

 rudimentary prolongation at the summit, agree exactly with the Chinese material, 



