Abies.] CXLIV. CONIFER m. (J. D. Hooker.) 655 



Fern, cones 4-6 by l|-3 in. diam., ripening in the same year, top and base rounded; 

 outer margins of scales rounded. Seeds oblong or obovoid, with the wing ^-1 in. 

 long. 



VAB. Pindrow, Brand. For. Fl. 528; leaves longer (2-3 in.), cones usually 

 slender and cylindric. A. Pindrow, Spach I. c. 423. Picea Pindrow, Loud. 

 Arloret. iv. 2346, f. 2254, 2255. P. Herbertiana, Madden mss. P. Naphta, 

 Knight in Loud. Encycl. of Trees, 1053. Pinus Pindrow, Roi/le III. 354, t. 86 ; 

 Endl. Conif. 106 ; Lamb. Pin. iii. t. 92 ; Antoine Conif. 62, t. 24, f. ]. P. Naphtah' 

 Antoine Conif. 80. Taxus ? Lambertiana, Wall. Oat. 6056. N.W. Himalaya, in 

 better soil and in more sheltered places than Webbiana proper. The question of 

 the specific distinctness of P. Pindrow has long been a subject of doubt. Dr. 

 Brandis has decided against its claim. Royle figures the cone as pale purple, 4| by 

 3 in., and seeds g in. long. 



13. XiARIX, Miller. 



Tall pyramidal trees. Leaves in dense clusters, acicular, deciduous , 

 jointed near the base, 1 -nerved. Cones of Picea, but erect, with the bract 

 often exserted beneath the scale. Species 8, N. Temperate and Arctic 

 regions. 



I.. Griffith!!, HooJc.f. $ Thorns. III. Himal. PI. t. 21 (excl.f. 1-4) ; 

 branchlets long pendulous, leaves 1 in. slender, cones cylindric, bracts 

 exserted twice the length of the scales, with reflexed cuspidate tips. Brand. 

 For. Fl. 531 ; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 410. L. Griffithiana, Gord. Pinet. 

 126; Carriere Conif. Ed. 2, 359. Abies Griffithiana, Lindl. $' Gord. in 

 Journ. Sort. Soc. Lond. v. 214. Pinus Griffithii, Parlat. in DC. Prodr. 

 xvi. ii. 411. 



EASTEEN NEPAL, SIKKIM and BHOTAN, alt. 8-12,000 ft. 



A small tree, 20-60 ft., with pale-green foliage ; bark thick, brown ; heart wood 

 red. Leaves 30-50 in a cluster, linear, flat. Cone erect from the pendulous branch- 

 lets, 2-3 in. long ; bracts persistent, obovate-spathulate, notched, the cusp longer than 

 the bract. Seeds oblong, wing oblong twice as long as the nucleus. The male 

 flowers figured in ''111. Himal. PL" are those of Cedrus Deodar a, which were mixed 

 with specimens of L. Griffithii in Griffith's collections. 



ORDER CXLV. CYC AD ACE JE. (By W. T. Thiselton Dyer. ) 



Shrubs or small trees, with a thick simple (rarely forking) stem and 

 terminal crown of leaves, or stemless with leaves arising from a tuberous 

 simple or branched rootstock. Leaves in alternate series of short coriaceous 

 scales and of palm-like pinnate rarely 2-3-pinnate leaves with membranous 

 or coriaceous leaflets. Flowers dioecious ; males in one or more terminal 

 cones formed of numerous fleshy flat or variously peltate scales bearing 

 beneath crowded 1-celled anthers ; females of flat carpellary leaves (carpo- 

 phylls) crowded round the apex of the stem ( Cycas] or cones of flat or 

 thickened variously peltate scales. Ovules large, sessile, orthotropous, 

 either numerous and erect in notches on either margin of the carpophyll or 

 solitary and inverted on either side of the peltate scales. Seeds large, dru- 

 paceous, external coat more or less fleshy, internal crustaceous or bony ; 

 albumen copious, fleshy then horny, and with one or more embryonic 

 cavities; embryo usually single by abortion, slender, radicle superior 

 attached to the crumpled suspensory cord, cotyledons 2. Genera 9, species 

 about 80, natives of the tropics and S. temperate regions. 

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