PSEUDOLARIX 



Pseudolarix, Gordon, Pinetum, 292 (1858) ; Bentham et Hooker, 1 Gen. PI. iii. 442 (1880) ; Masters, 

 \n Journ. Linn. Soc. (Bot.) xxii. 208 (1886), and xxx. 32 (1893) ; Eichler, in Engler and Prantl, 

 Natur. Pflanzenfam. ii. pt. i. p. 77 (1889); Sargent, in Garden and Forest, x. 501 (1897). 



Laricopsis, Kent, Veitch's Man. Com/. 403 (1900). 



A genus belonging to the division Abietinese of the order Coniferse, similar to 

 Larix in the mode of branching, and in the deciduous needle-like leaves, clustered on 

 the short shoots, and solitary and spiral on the long shoots ; differing in the subulate 

 scales of the buds, in the staminate flowers clustered at the tips of leafless short 

 shoots, and in the cones with deciduous scales. Pseudolarix comprises one species, a 

 native of China described in detail below. 



PSEUDOLARIX FORTUNEI 



Pseudolarix Fortunei, Mayr, Monog. Abiet. Jap. 99 (1890), and Fremdldnd. Wald- u. Parkbdume, 



392 (1906); Masters, in Journ. Linn. Soc. (Bot.) xxvi. 557 (1902), and xxxvii. 424 (1906); 



Hemsley, in Bot. Mag. t. 8176 (1908). 

 Pseudolarix Kaemp/eri, Gordon, Pinetum, 292 (1858); Masters, in Gard. Citron, xxi. 584, figs. 112, 



113, and xxii. 238, fig. 48 (1884), and in Journ. Linn. Soc. (Bot.) xxii. 208, fig. 32, and plates 



ix. x. (1886); Clinton-Baker, Illust. Com/, ii. 62 (1909). 

 Abies Kaemp/eri, Lindley, in Gard. Chron. 1854, pp. 255 and 455 (with figure) (not 2 Abies 



Kaemp/eri, Lindley, in Penny Cycl. i. 34 (1833)); Murray, in Proc. Hort. Soc. ii. 644, figs. 



172-182 (1862); Fortune, in Gard. Chron. 1855, pp. 242, 644, and i860, p. 170. 

 Larix Kaemp/eri, Carriere, in Flore des Serres, xi. 97 (1856); Masters, in Journ. Linn. Soc. (Bot.) 



xviii. 523 (1881); Franchet, PI. David, i. 286 (1884). 

 Pinus Kaemp/eri, Parlatore, in De Candolle, Prod. xvi. 2, p. 412 (not 2 Lambert). 

 Laricopsis Kaemp/eri, Kent, Veitch's Man. Coni/ 404 (1900). 



A tree, attaining in China 120 or 130 feet in height. Bark reddish brown, 

 fissured into small narrow scaly plates. Branchlets of two kinds, long shoots and 

 short shoots or spurs, as in the larches (cf. Vol. II. p. 345). Long shoots in the first 

 year glabrous, glaucous, with linear pulvini, separated by slight grooves ; in the 

 second year reddish brown with broad white corky fissures between the pulvini. 



1 Bentham and Hooker mention Pseudolarix, in a note under Larix, as probably a distinct genus. 



* /'inns Kaempferi, Lambert, Genus Pinus, ii. preface, p. v (1824), and the original Abies Kaempferi, Lindley, fenny 

 Cycl. i. 34 (1833), were names applied to the true larch of Japan, Larix leptolepis, which was first mentioned as "Larix 

 com/era, nuiltis pyramidalis foliis deciduis," by Kaempfer, Amotn. Exot. 833 (1712). The name Abies Kaempferi was sub- 

 sequently applied by Lindley in error to the Chinese Pseudolarix, which was quite unknown to Kaempfer or to Lambert ; 

 and Gordon's name, Pseudolarix Kaempferi, founded on Lindley's erroneous application, was rightly changed by Mayr to 

 Pseudolarix Fortunei. 



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