LXXVII. CONl'FERjE! Pl'CEA. 



1051 



Flowers and cones unknown. 

 vation of 8000 or 9000 feet. 

 introduced. 



Found on the mountains of Mexico, at an ele- 

 A low tree, from 18ft. to 20ft. high; not yet 



E. Natives of Nepal. 



. Webb's purple-coned Silver Fir. 



1 14. P. 



Synonymes. Plnus Webbzawa Wall, in Litt., Lamb. Pin. ed. 2. 2. t. 44. ; P. spectibilis Lamb. 



Monos. 2. p. 3. t. 2. ; A'bies WebbzVJwa Lindl. in Penn. Cyc. No. 7., Royle Illust. ; Chilrow, and 



the Oonum, or purple-coned fir, in the Himalayas. 

 Engravings. Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., t. 44. ; Monog., 2. t. 2. ; and our figs. 1968. and 1969. 



Spec. Char., $c. Leaves 2-rowed, linear, flat, obtusely emarginate, silvery 

 beneath. Cones cylindrical ; scales kidney-shaped, roundish ; bracteoles 

 oblong, apiculate. (D. Don.) Buds round, pointless, thickly covered with 

 a yellow resin, by which alone the tree may be readily distinguished from 

 every other species of Picea. Cones from 6 in. to 7 in. long, and above 

 2 in. broad. Leaves of young 

 plants, in the Horticultural 

 Society's Garden, from lin. 

 to2iin.long. Scale above 1 in. 

 long, and 1 A in. broad. Seeds, 

 with the wing, f in. long ; 

 wing f- in. broad in the widest 

 part. Seeds ^ in. long, and 

 ^ in. broad. In general they 

 are smaller, but longer, and 

 with a sharper point, than 

 those of the common silver 

 fir; and, like the seeds of the 

 common silver fir, they are 

 of a brownish purple colour. 



19CS. P. Webb 



Cotyledons, ?. A large, hand- 

 some, pyramidal tree. Nepal, 

 on the Alps of Gossainthan. 

 Height 80 ft. to 90 ft., with a 

 trunk from 3ft. to 4ft. in 

 diameter near the base. In- 

 troduced in 1822. Cones 

 purple, in one or two in- 

 stances produced in England. 



Branches numerous, spread- 

 ing horizontally, much divided ; 

 densely clothed with leaves dis- 

 posed in whorls ; covered with 

 a pale, ash-coloured, rough, 

 scaly bark ; bent upwards at 



i960. P. Webkiana. 



