22 CONIFERS AND TAXADS OF JAPAN 



PINUS PARVIFLORA S. & Z. 



Plates IX and X 



Pintjs parviflora Siebold & Zuccarini, Fl. Jap. II. 27, t. 115 (1842). End- 

 licher, Syn. Conif. 138 (1847). Carriere, TraitS Conif. 292 (1855). Lindley in 

 Gard. Chron. 1861, 265. J. G. Veitch in Gard. Chron. 1862, 309. Murray in Proc. 

 Hort. Soc. Land. II. 272, fig. 13-27 (1862); Pines & Firs Jap. 11, fig. 13-29 

 (1863). Miquel in Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. III. 166 (1867); Prol. Fl. Jap. 330 

 (1867). Franchet & Savatier, Enum. PI. Jap. I. 465 (1875). Syme in Gard. 

 Chron. n. ser. X. 624, fig. 103 (1878). Masters in Jour. Linn. Soc. XVIII. 504 

 (1881); XXXV. 578 (1904). Mayr, Monog. Abiet. Jap. 76, t. 5, fig. 19 (1890); 

 Fremdl. Wald- u. Parkb. 386 (1906). Sargent, Forest Fl. Jap. 80 (1894). 

 Kent in Veitch, Man. Conif. ed. 2, 353 (1900). Matsumura, Ind. PI. Jap. II. 

 pt. 1, 14 (1905). Shirasawa, Icon. Ess. For. Jap. II. t. 2, fig. 30-42 (1908). 

 Clinton-Baker, III. Conif. I. 40, t. (1909). Beissner, Handb. Nadelh. ed. 2, 357 

 (1909). Elwes & Henry, Trees Gr. Brit. & Irel. V. 1033, t. 274 (1909). Hayata, 

 Veget.Mt. Fuji, 93 (1911). Silva Tarouca, Uns. Freiland-N adelh. 218, fig. 229 

 (1913). Shaw, Gen. Pinus, 32, t. 11, fig. 114-116 (exclude the synonyms P. morri- 

 sonicola and P. formosana) (1914). 



Pinus Cembra Thunberg, Fl. Jap. 274 (not Linnaeus) (1784). 



Pinus koraiensis Siebold & Zuccarini, Fl. Jap. II. t. 116 as to fig. 1-4 (1844). 



Pinus Cembra, var. Japonica Nelson, Pinac. 107 (1866). 



Pinus pentaphylla Mayr, Monog. Abiet. Jap. 78, t. 6, fig. 20 (1890) ; Fremdl. Wald- u. 



Parkb. 377 (1906). Sargent, Forest Fl. Jap. 80 (1894). Kent in Veitch, Man. 



Conif. ed. 2, 356 (1900). Masters in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXXV. 577(1904). 



Matsumura, Ind. PL Jap. II. pt. 1, 14 (1905). Beissner, Handb. Nadelh. ed. 2, 



356 (1909). 

 Pinus parviflora, var. pentaphylla Henry in Elwes & Henry, Trees Gr. Brit. & Irel. 



V. 1033 (1909). 



This is the Strobus Pine of Japan and the only species of the group known from 

 that country. It is widely distributed from the mountains of Shikoku northward 

 through Hondo to Hidaka province in southeastern Hokkaido, but Siebold's state- 

 ment that it grows in the Kurile Islands, which has been so widely copied, is erro- 

 neous. According to information from Dr. Nakai this Pine grows on the island 

 of Ooryong off the east coast of Korea, and Matsumura reports it from the 

 island of Tsushima, but it is apparently unknown in Kyushu. It delights in 

 steep, rocky country and the only place I saw it really abundant was on Shiraga- 

 yama in Tosa province, Shikoku. There it grows between 1300 and 1800 m. on 

 schistose rocks with Tsuga Sieboldii Carr., Chamaecyparis obtusa S. & Z., Abies 

 firma S. & Z., and such broad-leaved trees as Stewartia monadelpha S. & Z. and 

 Magnolia obovala Thunb.; the undergrowth is of Rhododendron Metternichii S. & Z., 

 Skimmia japonica Thunb., Pieris japonica D. Don, Osmanthus Aquifolium S. & Z., 

 Ilex rugosa Schmidt and Cephalotaxus drupacea S. & Z. The Japanese White 

 Pine is wild in Iga province, Hondo, and on most of the high mountains of cen- 

 tral Japan, more especially on those of Shinano province, where on Tsubakura- 

 dake it is fairly plentiful on granite ridges between 1300 and 2600 m. altitude, 

 growing with Tsuga diversifolia Mast., Picea jezo'ensis S. & Z., Abies Veitchii 

 Lindl., Pinus koraiensis S. & Z., Birches and several broad-leaved trees. In the 



