396 LARIX GRIFFITH! I. 



the old East India House in Leadenhall Street, so that this Larch 

 remained unknown to science till it was rediscovered by Sir Joseph 

 Hooker in Sikkim in 1848, and who sent seeds to the Royal Gardens 

 at Kew, which germinated freely and the seedlings were widely 

 distributed but nearly all ultimately succumbed either to climate or 

 disease. Repeated importations of seeds since, have met with no 

 better fate. One survivor of the first batch of seedlings supposed to 

 have been presented to the late Mr. Wentworth Buller, is growing in 

 the grounds of Mr. H. M. Imbert Terry, at Strete Ralegh near 



Fig. 101. Larix GriffitMi. A, branchlet with staminate B, with ovuliferous flowers. 

 Ovuliferous scale 1, dorsal 2, ventral side. 



Exeter, which is now upwards of 40 feet high and attracts attention 

 by its marked unlikeness to any of the surrounding trees. Another 

 tree 50 feet high of which a branch with cones is figured in the 

 "Gardeners' Chronicle" of October 9th, 1896, is (or was) standing in 

 the grounds of Major-General Jago-Trelawny at Coldrenick in Cornwall. 

 The species perpetuates the name of one of the most indefatigable 

 of the earlier botanical explorers of India, who unfortunately succumbed 

 to the climate at a comparatively early age. 



