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ABIES WEBBIAXA. 



oval-oblong involucral bracts in three series. Cones among the 



largest and handsomest in the genus, shortly stalked cylindric, obtuse, 



6 8 inches long and 2 3 inches in diameter, - deep violet-blue 



changing to dark brown when mature ; scales obovoid-rhombic 



suddenly contracted to a short claw, the outer 



margin entire or obscurely crenulate ; bracts linear- 



spathulate, mucronate, three-fourths as long as the 



scale. Seed wings obliquely oblong, truncate, nearly 



as long as the scale. Wood whitish, inodorous, 



open-grained and soft, and not durable when 



exposed to the weather.* 



Fig. 141. Fertile branchlet with cone of Abies Webbiana (reduced). 



Abies Webbiana, Lindley in Penny Cycl. I. 30 (1833). Forbes, Pinet. Woburn, 

 117, t. 41. (1839). Link in Linnaea, XV. 532 (1841). Carriere, Traite Conif. 

 ed. II. 300. Brandis, Forest Fl. N.W. India, 528. McNab in Proceed. R. Irish 

 Acad. II. ser. 2, fig. 18. Aitchison in Journ Linn. Soc. XVIII. 98. Hooker til, 

 Fl. Brit. Ind. V. 654. Beissner, Nadelholzk, 479, with fig. Masters in Gard. 

 Chron. XXII. (1884), p. 467, with fig.; and Journ. R. Hort. Soc. XIV. 196. 



Picea Webbiana, Loudon, Arb. et Frut. Brit. IV. 2344, with figs. (1838). 

 Madden in Journ. Hort. Soc. Lond. V. 251 (1850). Gordon, Pinet. ed. II. 226. 



Pinus Webbiana, Wallich in Lambert's Genus Pinus. ed. III. 77, t. 44 (1832). 

 Endlicher, Synops. Conif. 106. Paiiatore, D. C. Prodr. XVI. 425. 



P. spectabilis, Lambert, Genus Pinus, ed. II. Vol. II. 3, t. 2 (1837). 



Eng. Indian Silver Fir. Fr. Sapin d' Himalaya. Germ. Webb's Weisstanne. 



* Brandis, "Forest Flora of North-west India," he. r/f. 



