222 PICEA, OR 



thickly set round the branches, linear, blunt-pointed, flat, dark 

 green, with a very slight trace of the glaucous appearance on 

 the under side, and mostly curved upwards towards the point. 

 Branches at first horizontal, but afterwards, as they get older, 

 become rather pendulous at the extremities. Cones erect, 

 cylindrical, tapering towards an obtuse end, three inches and a 

 quarter long, and an inch and three quarters broad at the 

 widest part, a little below the middle. Scales obovate wedge- 

 shaped, largest and broadest near the base, rounded and entire 

 on the margins, and quite smooth. Bracteas hidden by the scales, 

 quite short, round, irregularly toothed, and convex externally 

 at the edges, with a large point or tail in the middle. Seeds 

 small, angular, soft, and with membranaceous wings nearly as 

 large as the scales. 



A middle-sized tree, with rather a dense head, growing from 

 30 to 50 feet high, at an elevation of from 2000 to 5000 feet, on 

 the mountains of Siberia and the Altai, forming entire forests. 



It is the " Ak-cherschal" of the Tartars, and the "Chadsura" 

 of the Mongols, and is quite hardy, but suffers greatly from 

 the late Spring frosts, as it commences growing very early in 

 the season. 



No. 21. Picea Pindrow, Loudon, the Upright Indian Silver 



Fir. 

 Syn. Picea Herbertiana, Madden. 

 Naphtha, Knight. 

 Abies Pindrow, Spach. 

 Webbiana affinis, Hort. 

 Pinus Pindrow, Royle. 

 Taxus Lambertiana, Wcdlich. 



Leaves solitary, flat, and at first all round the shoots, but 

 finally disposed into two rows on the branchlets horizontally, 

 with the upper surface of the deepest green, or almost black 

 when fully matured, and the under one with two faint, white, 

 silvery lines, and from an inch and a half to two inches and a 

 half long, and rather more than one line broad, with acutely two- 



