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LARICOPSIS IkEMPFERI. 



Laricopsis K eempf er i. 



"A tree 120 130 feet high, symmetrically branched and having the 

 aspect of something between the Cedar and the Larch, but more 

 covered with foliage in consequence of the large size and breadth of 

 the leaves." In Great Britain, a slow-growing tree of broadly pyramidal 

 outline, the -branches often increasing in length almost at the same rate 

 as the trunk. Bark of trunk dark ash-brown, much fissured into 

 irregular plates, the broader fissures exposing a light reddish brown 

 inner cortex. Branches sparsely ramified, the branchlets for the 



Fig. 105. Staminate flowers 01 Lari,copsis Kaimpfcrl. 

 (From the Gardeners' Chronicle. ) 



most part produced laterally only. Leaves deciduous; on the older 

 branchlets in tufts on short " spurs " ; on the youngest terminal 

 shoots scattered or spirally arranged, linear - lanceolate, acute, 

 1*5 3 inches long, soft light green changing to rich golden yellow 

 before they fall. Staminate flowers in umbels at the apex of short 

 " spurs " and surrounded by membraneous involucral bracts, each 

 member of the umbel stalked, sub-pendulous or arching, cylindric, about 

 0'75 inch long ; anthers sub-globose, the lower ones almost sessile, the 

 upper ones prolonged into a long appendage, three-lobed at the apex. 

 Cones ovoid, about 3 inches long and 2 '5 inches in diameter at the 



