226 PICEA, OK 



No. 23. Picea Veitchii, Hort, Veitch's Silver Fir. 

 Syn. Abies Veitchii, Lindley. 

 Pinus selenolepis, Parlatore. 

 Leaves linear, flat, and all thickly arranged in an incurved 

 manner on the upper side of the branchlets ; obtuse or emar- 

 ginate at the points, keeled, glaucous, concave, and streaked 

 with white on the under side, and varying from six to twelve 

 lines long, and three quarters of a line broad. Branches rather 

 stout, with the cones from two and a quarter to two and a half 

 inches long, and two and three quarter inches in circumference ; 

 somewhat cylindrical, blunt pointed, and erect on the upper 

 side of the branches. Scales rounded on the upper part, flattened 

 and half-moon shaped, with a foot-stalk below. Bracteas 

 hidden, but even in length with the scales, wedge-shaped, and 

 terminating in a little point or prickle. Seeds testaceous, two 

 lines long, angular, crested, and with short acinaciform wings, 

 having a very narrow curved crest at the base. 



A fine tree, growing from 120 to 140 feet high, found on the 

 sacred Mountain Fusi-Yaina, in the province of Surunga, on 

 the Island of Nippon, in Japan. 



It looks likes a small-coned Silver Fir, but is essentially dif- 

 ferent from that or any other Silver Fir, and has been named 

 after Mr. J. G. Veitch, a plant collector in Japan, who sent seeds 

 of it to England in 1861. 



No. 24. Picea Webbiana, Loudon, Capt. Webb's Indian Fir. 

 Syn. Abies Webbiana, Lindley. 

 spectabilis, Spach. 

 densa, Griffith. 

 Chilrowensis, Hort. 

 Pinus striata, Hamilton. 

 spectabilis, Lambert. 

 tinctoria, Wallich. 

 Webbiana, Wallich. 

 Leaves solitary, at first scattered all round the shoots, but 

 finally more or less arranged in two rows laterally, from one 



