LXXVII. CONI'FERJE : 



10-29 



prolific in fibrous roots, and less so in shoots and leaves, they may be kept 

 in the nursery, by frequent transplanting, till they attain a much larger size. 

 The most convenient time for planting them where they are finally to remain 

 is after they have been two years in the seed-bed, and one year transplanted ; 

 and the operation should never be performed but in mild weather, and when 

 the air is somewhat moist. 



1 2. A. ORIENTALS Tourn. The Oriental Spruce Fir. 



Identification. Tourn. Cor., 41 



St/nonymes. Plnus orientalis Lin. Sp. PI. 1421., Lamb. Pin. ed. 2. 1. t. 39. ; Pfcea orientalis Link, 



and Steven in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mas. 1833. 

 Engravings. Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., 1. t. 39. ; and our figs. 1924. and 1925. 



Spec. Char.) fyc. Leaves solitary, sub-quadrangular. Cones cylindrical ; scales 

 broader than long, rhomboid ovate, rounded at the apex, sub-entire. (Steven.) 

 Leaves half as long as those of J v bies excelsa, and, like them, quadrangular, 

 acute, but not pungent ; neither are they two rowed, as Tournefort states, 



but cover the branches on all sides, as in 

 the common spruce. Cones Sin. long, 

 subcylindrical; scales 

 more laxly imbri- 

 cated as the seeds 

 ripen, inferior broad- 

 ly rounded, superior 

 somewhat acute. A 

 lofty tree. Tauria 

 and Caucasus, on the 

 loftiest mountains of 

 Imeretia, and fre- 

 quent in Upper Mingrelia, especially in the 

 neighbourhood of churches, and forming 



1924. A. orientklis. 



1925. ^.orientalis. 



whole forests between Guriel and the 



Adshar mountains. (Gard. Mag., 1839, 



p. 227.) 



Described by Lambert, after Tournefort, and 

 from dried specimens; but cones with fertile 

 seeds do not appear to have been introduced 

 till ? 1 837. Of late many plants have been 

 raised in Knight's Exotic Nursery, from seeds 

 received from Mingrelia and the neighbourhood 

 of Teflis. 



1 3. A. OBOVA'TA D. Don MS. The obovate- 

 leaved Spruce Fir. 



Synonyme. Picea obovata Led. Icon. PL Fl. Ross. t. 500. 

 Engravings. Our fig. 1926. and 1927. from Ledebour. 



Spec. Char., Sf-c. Leaves arranged in many 

 series, curved upwards. Cones erect, cylindri- 

 cal. Scales abruptly dilated from the cuneate 

 base into a quadrangular lamina, broader 

 towards the point. Bracteas somewhat 

 quadrangular, mucronate, not half the length 



3 u 3 



1926. A. obovJita. 



