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Sub-tribe 2. Laricece. 



15. Larix, Salisbury. " The Larch" 



This is a genus of alpine or sub-alpine trees confined to the northern 

 hemisphere. Larches do not do well. in New South Wales, merely existing 

 in a few places. At the same time they cannot be said to have been 

 thoroughly tested, say in such places as Southern Monaro. 



16. Pseudolarix, Gordon. 



Laricopsis of Veitch's Manual. It is proposed _to supersede Pseudolarix 

 for purely literary reasons. " Nature produces nothing false," certainly not 

 in the Greek sense of pseudos. Admitted that the name is not a model one, 

 but if botanical nomenclature were to be disturbed on such grounds it would 

 be much more unstable than it is. 



(1). P. Kaempferi, Gordon. " Chinese or Golden Larch." 



A tall tree, native of China, inflorescence umbellate. Deciduous. 



It just exists in the Sydney Botanic Gardens (M 18), It should be well 

 tried in the coldest districts, for it is a beautiful tree. 



17. Cedrus, Loudon. 



A genus of stately trees known as Cedar in Britain, 



There are three easily distinguishable forms, conventionally recognised as species but 

 scarcely so in a strictly scientific sense, respectively known as the Cedar of Lebanon, the 

 Deodar or Indian Cedar, and the African or Mount Atlas Cedar. 



The typical form which inhabits the slopes of Mount Lebanon and the Cilician Taurus, 

 has been known as The. Cedar from remote antiquity ; the existence of a seoond Cedar 

 forming extensive forests in the north-west Himalaya was not known to science till the 

 commencement of the nineteenth century ; whilst the presence of a third on the Atlas 

 Mountains of Algeria was not suspected till the discovery after thejjccupation of the 

 country by the French in 1831. ( Veitch's Manual, p. 406.) 



The geographical distribution of the Cedars is remarkable ; they are confined to three 

 separate regions in the great mountain systems that cross the eastern continent between 

 the 28th and 33th parallels of north latitude with but little interruption from the Atlantic 

 Ocean to the China Sea (op. cit.). 



(1.) O. atlantica, Manetti. "Mount Atlas Cedar." 



North Africa. A stately tree attaining a height of jl 00 feet. For park 

 and landscape considered the best of the three in Great Britain. It has been 

 grown in the Sydney Botanic Gardens for years {e.g. M 19), but in our 

 climate it is too close in appearance to the Deodar to be separately planted. 

 In colder districts it would flourish better and display its characteristics. 



(2.) O. DeoJara, Loudon. Ths u Deodar " or " Indian Cedar." 



A noble tree, native of the mountains of Afghanistan, Baluchistan, and 

 north-west Himalaya. This is the Ccd/us most generally useful in New 

 South Wales as an avenue or specimen tree. 



For an excellent account of it see "The Deodar : a Sylvicultural Sketch " 

 (Indian Forester, xxv, 4). 



We have many specimens in the Sydney Botanic Gardens (M 19 L 32 b 

 35, 15b, 29 c). 



(3V) C. Libani, Loud. The " Cedar of Lebanon." 

 Native of the Syrian mountains, Cilicia, and Cyprus 

 A majestic tree of medium size. 



