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the " Matsu" or " Kouromatsou." It attains a stem- diameter of 6 feet, 

 a height of 100 feet, and reaches an age of several centuries. It 

 prefers sandy soil. Splendid for avenues (Rein). It supplies a 

 resinous, tough and durable wood, used for buildings and furniture, but 

 suitable only for indoor-work (Veitch). The roots, when burned 

 with the oil of Brassica Orientals, furnish the Chinese lampblack. 



Firms Torreyana, Parry. 



California. An average-cone of this pine will contain about 130 

 seeds, weighing 3 ounces ; they are edible (Meehan). 



Firms Tsuga, Antoine. 



Northern provinces of Japan, 6,000 to 9,000 feet above the sea. 

 This very hardy spruce-fir grows to a height of only 25 feet. Its 

 timber is highly esteemed for superior furniture, especially by turners. 

 It is of a yellowish-brown color. P, Araragi (Siebold) is the oldest 

 name for this species as pointed out by Prof. C. Koch. 



Finns Webbiana, Wallich. 



King-Pine, Dye-Pine. Himalaya-mountains, at an elevation of 

 from 7,000 to 13,000 feet, extending to Afghanistan. A splendid 

 fir, reaching a height of 150 feet, the stem a circumference of 30 feet. 

 Will bear a good deal of shade (Dr. Brandis). The wood is pale, 

 soft, coarse-grained and very resinous, on the testimony of Mr. Webb 

 equalling in texture and odor the Bermuda- Cedar. The natives 

 extract a splendid violet dye from the cones. The oldest name for 

 this species is P. spectabilis (D. Don). 



Pinus ^^illiamsonii, Newberry. 



California and Oregon, up to 12,000 feet. Height of tree reaching 

 150 feet. Timber very valuable (Vasey). Many other pines, 

 eastern as well as western, not alluded to on this occasion, are worthy 

 of especial utilitarian inquiries. 



Fiptadenia Cebil, Grisebach. (Acacia Cebil, Grisebach.) 



La Plata- States. A tree attaining 60 feet in height, there furnish- 

 ing a tan-bark of fair strength (Hieronymus). 



Piptadenia rigida, Bentham. 



Sub-tropical and extra- tropical South- America. This acacia-like 

 tree furnishes the angico-gum, similar to gum-arabic. The wood, 

 according to Saldana da Gama, serves for naval constructions. 



Fipturus propinquus, Weddell. 



Insular India, South-Sea Islands and warmer parts of East- Aus- 

 tralia. This bush is higher and rather more hardy than Boehmeria 

 nivea, but in fibre it is similar to that plant. P. velutinus, Wedd., 

 is closely allied. The few other species serve probably as well for 

 fibre. 



