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long, dark lustrous green with a narrow median keel above, paler 

 with two glaucous stomatiferous bands beneath. Staminate flowers 

 cylindric, obtuse, about 0'5 inch long, produced in umbels of eight 

 ten on branchlets of the preceding year, the umbel shortly pedunculate 



and surrounded at the base by small 

 involucral bracts. Cones erect, 

 variable in size, ovoid or ovoid- 

 cyliridric, much resembling those of 

 Pinus Cembra ; scales convex, sub- 

 orbicular, somewhat longer than 

 Fi g- 123 - broad, with a short cuneate claw 



linear, about halt as long as the 

 scales, expanded into a small sub-quadrate plate near the apex and 

 terminating in a mucronate tip. Seeds angular and wedge-shaped 

 with a relatively broad roundish oblong wing. 



Abietia Fortune!, supra. 



Abies Fortune!, Murray, Pines and Firs of Japan, 49, with figs. (1863). Hance in 

 Journ. Bot. XX. 39. Masters in Journ. Linn. Soc. XVIII. 519 ; XXII 197, with figs ; 

 Gard. Chron. XXI. (1884), p. 348, with fig. ; and XXV. (1886), p 428, with figs. 



A. jezoensis, Lindley in Gard. Chron. 1850, p. 311, with fig. (not Siebold and Zuccarini). 



Keteleeria Fortunei, Carriere, Traite Conif. ed. II. 260 (1867). Pirotta in Bull. 

 Soc. Toscana di Orticultura, 1887, p. 263. Masters in Gard Chron. II. ser. 3 

 (1887), p. 440; and Journ. R. Hort. Soc. XIV. 216. Mayr, Abiet. des Jap. 

 Reiches, 99. Beissner, Nadelholzk. 421, with figs 



Pinus Fortunei, Parlatore, D. C. Prodr. XVI. 430 (1868). 



This remarkable Fir was originally discovered by Fortune in 1844 

 or 1845 near a temple at Foo-chow-foo (Fu-chau-fu of modern maps), who 

 saw but a single tree which had apparently been planted there. 

 Nothing more was seen of it till 1873 when it was re-discovered by 

 Dr. Hance in the same locality, and five years later by Mr. Charles 

 Maries who found it in great numbers on the coast range of Fo-kien 

 (Fu-chau) associated with Pinus Massoniana (P. sinensis). Another 

 species was discovered in China in 1869 by the French missionary, 

 the Abbe David, which has been described by M. Franchet under the 

 name of Abies (Tsuga) Davidiana ; and seeds of an Abietia under 

 this name have been recently sent to the Veitchian establishment 

 from south China by E. H. Wilson. 



ABIES. 



Link, Abhandl. Acad. Berl. (1827), p. 181. Bentham and Hooker, Gen. Plant. III. 441 

 (1881). Eichler in Engler and Prantl. Nat. Pfl. Fam. 81 (1887). Masters in Journ. Linn 

 Soc. XXX. 34 (1893). 



As here circumscribed, Abies is a genus of evergreen trees often 

 of lofty stature, well marked by the symmetry of their habit 

 especially during the period of early life which has caused them to 

 be ranked among the most ornamental subjects available for the lawn, 

 pleasure ground and park in our climate. In a popular sense the 

 species are distinguished by their tall straight trunks regularly 

 furnished with tiers of branches ramified laterally ; by their flattened 

 leaves mostly spreading in two opposite directions, and characterised 

 .anatomically by the presence of two lateral resin canals lying near 



