224 PICEA, OR 



" Thooner" (Yew), and which no doubt led Dr. "Wallich (who 

 trusted too much to local names) to give to this Fir the name 

 of Taxus Lambertiana, he not having at the time seen its cones, 

 or even probably the living tree. Its Khasiya name is Ragha, 

 and the Bhotiyas call it " Woomun" (purple cone). 



This tree forms dense forests on all the great spurs of the 

 Kamaon Alps, from 7500 to 9000 feet of elevation, but under 

 proper conditions it will ascend and descend above and below 

 these elevations, always, however, exhibiting its preference for 

 northern and western aspects. Mr. Winterbottom found it 

 plentiful on the Peer Punjal in Cashmere, flowering in April 

 and May, and ripening its cones, which are of the same rich 

 purple colour as those of Picea Webbiana, in October and 

 November of the same year. 



This tree is quite hardy, but suffers from the late Spring 

 frosts in England, and should be planted, when young, in a 

 northern aspect, or screened from the mid-day sun. 



Timber good, but soon warps and rots if exposed to rain 

 and sun. 



Picea Pindrow vafjegata, Hort, the variegated Indian 



Silver Fir. 

 This is a constant variety, with the leaves striped with 

 yellow. 



No. 22. Picea Pinsapo, Loudon, the Pinsapo Fir. 

 Syn. Abies Pinsapo, Boissier. 

 Hispanica, De Chamb. 

 Pinus Pinsapo, Encllicher. 



Leaves solitary, regularly and thickly disposed around the 

 branches, short, not more than half an inch long, and placed at 

 right angles on the branches, very stiff, sharp-pointed, flat on 

 the upper surface, and with a central rib slightly marked on 

 each side by two furrows, which forms the only and very 

 superficial indication of the two silvery lines so strikingly con- 

 spicuous on the under side of the leaves in the Silver Fir tribe. 



