PINACEAE. ABIES HOMOLEPIS 57 



ABIES HOMOLEPIS S. & Z. 



Plates XXXVII and XXXVIII 



Abies homolepis Siebold & Zuccarini, Fl. Jap. II. 17, t. 108 (1842). Miquel 

 in Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. III. 166 (1867); Prol. Fl. Jap. 331 (1867). Bertrand in 

 Ann. Sci. Nat. ser. 5, XX. 93 (1874). Masters in Gard. Chron. n. ser. XII. 823, fig. 

 136 (1879); in Jour. Linn. Soc. XVIII. 518 (1881). Mayr. Monog. Abiet. Jap. 

 35, t. 2, fig. 3 (1890). Sargent, Forest Fl. Jap. 82 (1894). Shirasawa, Icon. 

 Ess. For. Jap. I. 14, t. 3 (1900). Kent in Veitch, Man. Conif. ed. 2, 513, fig. 

 (1900). Elwes & Henry, Trees Or. Brit. & Irel. IV. 764 (1909). Hayata, 

 Veget. Mt. Fuji, 92 (1911). Silva Tarouca, Uns. Freiland-Nadelh. 86, fig. 81 

 (1913). 



Pinus homolepis Antoine, Conif. 78, t. 31, fig. 1 (1846). 



Piceafirma, var. A. Murray in Proc. Hort. Soc. Lond. II. 409, fig. 76, 80-81 (1862). 



Abies firma Murray, Pines & Firs Jap. 53 (in part, not Siebold & Zuccarini), fig. 109, 



113, 114 (1863). 

 Abies Tschonoskiana Regel in Ind. Sent. Hort. Petrop. 32 (name only) (1865). 

 Abies brachyphylla Maximowicz in Bull. Acad. Sci. St. Petersbourg, ser. 3, X. 488 (1866) ; 



in Mel. Biol. VI. 23 (1866). Masters in Gard. Chron. n. ser. XII. 556, fig. 91, 92 



(1879); in Jour. Linn. Soc. XVIII. 515, fig. 14 (1881). Hooker f. in Bot. Mag. 



CXVI. t. 7114 (1890). Matsumura, Ind. PI. Jap. II. pt. 1, 4 (1905). Elwes 



& Henry, Trees Gr. Brit. & Irel. IV. 765 (1909). Clinton-Baker, III. Conif. II. 



8, t. (1909). Silva Tarouca, Uns. Freiland-Nadelh. 85, fig. 80 (1913). 

 Pinus brachyphylla Parlatore in De Candolle, Prodr. XVI. pt. 2, 428 (1868). 

 Abies Finhonnoskiana Neumann, Cat. 1865 ex Parlatore in De Candolle, Prodr. XVI. 



pt. 2, 431 (1868). 

 Pinus Finhonnoskiana Parlatore in De Candolle, Prodr. XVI. pt. 2, 431 (1868). 

 Picea brachyphylla Gordon, Pinet. ed. 2, 201 (1875). 

 Pinus (Abies) firma McNab in Proc. Roy. Irish Acad. ser. 2, II. 686, t. 47, fig. 14 (not 



P. firma Antoine) (1877). 

 Pinus (Abies) Harryana McNab in Proc. Roy. Irish Acad. ser. 2, II. 689, t. 47, 



fig. 16 (1877). 

 Abies Veitchii Hort. ex McNab 1. c. (as a synonym, not Lindley) (1877). 



This is the common Fir of the mountains of central Japan at altitudes between 

 800 and 2000 m. above the sea, from the alps in Shinano and Hida provinces to 

 the mountains around Nikko. It always grows associated with Larch and broad- 

 leaved deciduous trees. At its lowest altitudinal limit it is associated with A. firma 

 S. & Z. and at its highest with A. Veitchii Lindl. It is common on Mt. Ontake, on 

 Tsubakura-dake in Shinano province, and on the Yatsuga-dake on the borders of 

 Shinano and Kai provinces. On the lower middle slopes of Fuji-san and on the 

 Chichibu Mountains west-northwest of Tokyo it is fairly plentiful. Around Nikko 

 it is abundant and here grow the finest trees of this Fir I saw in Japan. At 

 Chuzenji on the shores of the lake are trees from 30 to 35 m. tall and from 5 to 6 m. 

 in girth of trunk, with thick horizontally spreading branches and often round-topped 

 heads. The bark is gray and rough and the shoots are stout, glabrous, pale-colored, 

 deeply fissured, with prominent pulvini. The winter-buds are conical, obtuse 

 and resinous. The leaves are variable in length, rounded and emarginate at the 

 apex and often acutish at the ends of the shoots; the upper side is shining green, 

 the lower normally very white. There is no stereom tissue scattered through the 



