158 PICEA 



of Richard Smith & Co., of Worcester, in a plantation not far from Kinlet 

 House, in Shropshire, about 1858. Var. PENDULA is not so strikingly 

 pendulous. 



Var. EREMITA, var. GIGANTEA, and var. DiCKSONi have large stout leaves, 

 the habit stiff and rather open. 



Var. STRICTA, of slender, spire-like form, the branches erect ; very distinct 

 and striking. 



Var. VIRGATA has thin, slender branchlets with the leaves appressed 

 to the twig. 



P. HONDOENSIS, Mayr. 

 (P. ajanensis, Hort., Bot. Mag., t. 6743 not of Fischer.") 



A tree up to 80 ft. high, with scaly, peeling bark ; young shoots yellowish, 

 without down ; bud-scales flattened, shining brown. Leaves confined to 

 the upper side of the shoot, the -lower ones spreading horizontally, upper 

 ones pointing forwards ; they are linear, blunt, or with short points at the 

 apex ; | to i in. long, $ to ^g- in. wide ; dark glossy green and without 

 stomata above ; vividly blue-white beneath, and almost covered with 

 stomatic lines. Cones cylindrical, bright crimson when young, afterwards 

 pale brown ; i^ to 2^ ins. long, about I in. wide ; scales with jaggedly 

 toothed margins. 



Native of Japan, where it occurs on the mountains of the main island , 

 introduced in 1861 by John Gould Veitch. Owing to a mixing up of the 

 seeds it was originally distributed as P. Alcockiana (true examples of which 

 have four-sided leaves, with stomata on all surfaces and much less vividly 

 white beneath ; also cone-scales almost entire). It is generally grown in 

 gardens now as P. ajanensis, but was distinguished from the true species 

 of that name by Dr Mayr in 1890. The true P. AJANENSIS, Fischer , is 

 perhaps not in cultivation, and so far as Japan is concerned is only found in 

 Yezo, the Kurile Islands, and Saghalien ; but it occurs also in Manchuria, 

 Amurland, etc. It appears to be a taller tree, with non-peeling bark, longer 

 leaves, and more slender cones, but is closely allied to P. hondoensis. 



P. hondoensis as seen in British gardens is a particularly handsome 

 pyramidal tree, with stiff branches, leaves more beautifully blue-white beneath 

 than those perhaps of any other spruce, and with handsome cones. It 

 approaches 50 ft. in height in the pinetum at Ochtertyre, Perthshire, and 

 no doubt elsewhere. 



P. MORINDA, Link. WEST HIMALAYAN SPRUCE. 



(P. Smithiana, Boissier ; Abies Khutrow. Loudon.") 



A tree 100 to 120, sometimes 200 ft. high, with horizontal branches, but 

 perfectly pendulous branchlets ; young shoots stiff, pale grey, shining, not 

 downy; buds conical, often resinous, up to ^ in. long. Leaves arranged all round 

 the twigs (rather more thinly beneath), standing out at an angle of about 

 60 ; they are quadrangular, rigid, needle-like, with prickly points, i^ to 2 ins. 

 long, often slightly curved, green with a few stomatic lines on each of the 

 four faces. Cones cylindrical, tapered towards the apex, 4 to 6 ins. long, 

 i^ to 2 ins. wide, brown when mature ; scales broadly rounded and entire at 

 the margin. 



Native of the western Himalaya ; introduced to Scotland in 1818 by cones 

 sent to Lord Hopetoun. The specific name " Smithiana," by which it is 

 frequently known, refers to the gardener at Hopetoun who first raised this 

 tree. It is distinct from all the other spruces in the greater length of leaf, 

 and is also one of the most striking from the weeping character of its 



