654 CXLIV. CONIFERS. (J. D. Hooker.) [Picea. 



bark tessellated. Leaves dark green, stiff. Cones 4-6 by 1-2 in. diam., obtuse; 

 scales rounded, concave, dark brown and shining. Seeds f in long with the obliquely 

 truncate wing. 



11. TSUGA, Carriere. 



Evergreen trees. Leaves more or less distichous, narrow, 1-nerved, 

 petiole very short, jointed on the branch. Cones small, ripening in the 

 first year, scales few, persistent, thin, not thickened at the tip. Species 

 about 7, a Himalayan, a Japanese and several N. American. 



T. Brunoniana, Carr. Conif. 188 ; branches spreading, branchlets 

 pendulous pubescent, leaves ^-1 in. narrowly linear white beneath margins 

 recurved tips serrulate, cones 1 in. ovoid, scales obtuse. Abies Brunoniana, 

 Lindl. in Penny Cyclop, i. 31 ; Griff. Itin. Notes 131, No. 529. A. 

 dumosa, Loud. Arb'. iv. 2325, f. 2233', 2234. Pinus dumosa, Don Prodr. 

 55 ; Parlat. in DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 429 ; Lamb. Pin. Ed. 2, ii. 7 ; Ed. 3, 80, 

 t. 46. P. Brunoniana, Wall. Cat. 6061 ; PL As. Ear. in". 24, t. 247 ; Endl. 

 Conif. 84 ; Antoine Conif. 82, t. 32, f. 1. P. decidua, Wall, mss. Taxaceae, 

 Griff. Notul. iv. 28; Ic. PL Asiat. t. 375. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, from Kumaon to Bhotan, alt. 8-10,500 ft. 



A tree, attaining 120 ft., with 28 ft. girth of trunk; branchlets very slender; 

 bark thick, rough. Leaves T ^ in. broad, caducous after the branch is cut, dark 

 green. Cones terminal, erect or horizontal. Seeds % in. long with the obloug 

 obtuse wing ; nucleus very small. 



12. ABIES, Juss. 



Lofty evergreen trees with tabular branches. Leaves more or le?s 

 bifarious, linear, rarely 4-gonous, 1-nerved, jointed on to the branch. Cone 

 erect, cylindric or oblong, scales very many, thin, tip hardly thickened, 

 deciduous, leaving a woody axis as in Cedrus, bract more or less free under 

 the scale and sometimes produced beyond it. Species about 18, N. Tem- 

 perate and Arctic. 



A. Webbiana, Lindley in Penny Cyclop, i. 30 ; leaves 1-2 in. linear 

 flat retuse or bicuspidate rarely rounded or subacute white beneath on 

 either side the midrib, cones oblong or cylindric dark purple, scales much 

 longer than the bracts, seeds with a broadly obovate truncate wing. Link 

 in Linncea, xv. 532; Forbes Pinet. Woburn. 117, t. 41 ; Griff. Notul. iv. 19; 

 Ic. PL Asiat. t. 371 ; Brand. For. FL 528 ; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 408. 

 A. densa, G-riff. Journ. 258 ; Notul. iv. 19 (Itin. Notes 141, Nos. 662, 663). 

 A. spectabilis, Spach Hist. Phaner. xi. 422. Picea Webbiana, Loud. 

 Arboret. iv. 2344, f. 2251-2253 ; Cleghorn Pines of N. W. HimaL t. 6. 

 Pinus Webbiana, Wall, in Lamb. Pin. Ed. 3, 77, t. 44 ; Cat. 6058 (by 

 error 5058) ; Endl. Conif. 106 ; Antoine Conif. 61, t. 24, f. 1 ; -Parlat. in 

 DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 425. P. striata, Ham. mss. P. spectabilis, Lamb. Pin. 

 Ed. 2, ii. 3, t. 2 ; Don Prodr. 55. 



TEMPERATE and SCBALPINE HIMALAYA, alt. 7-12,000 ft. in the west, and 

 8500-13,000 ft. in the east. DISTKIB. Aflghunistan. 



A lofty black stout tree, attaining 150 ft., and a girth of trunk of SO ft. ; crown 

 cylindric, brandies horizontal flat. Leaves spirally arranged but more or less 

 bifarious, very variable in length, persisting for 8-10 years, flat, about ^ in. broad, 

 channelled down the middle, very dark green and shining, tip very variable ; midrib 

 raised beneath; petiole very short. Male cones sessile, solitary or clustered. 



