8 Illustrations of Conifers. 



ABIES BRACHYPHYLLA (Maximowicz). 



Gardeners' Chronicle, Vol. XII. p. 556 (1879). 



Veitch's Man. Conif. ed. 2, p. 518 (1900). 



Trees of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. IV. p. 765 (1909). 



A TREE attaining in its native habitats a height of over 100 feet and 

 a girth of 16 feet, with a bark like that of a spruce. Branchlets 

 greyish, glabrous, with prominent pulvini separated by deep grooves. 

 Buds broadly conical, smooth, brownish, resinous. 



Leaves on lateral branches, pectinate, those on the upper side 

 directed upwards and outwards, in two lateral sets, with a V-shaped 

 depression between them. Leaves linear, flattened, tapering at the 

 base, with the apex rounded and slightly bifid, nearly an inch long 

 and about one-fifteenth inch broad; upper surface dark green, lower 

 surface with two conspicuous white bands of stomata. 



Cones cylindrical, 4 inches long by 1J inch in diameter, purple at 

 first, but becoming brown when mature. Scales very thin and flat, fan- 

 shaped, 1 inch long by f inch wide ; bract much shorter than the 

 scale, finely denticulate and tipped by a minute mucro. Seed with its 

 wing about J inch long. 



This tree occurs in the central mountains of the main island of 

 Japan, at 4,000 to 5,000 feet elevation. The date of introduction 

 into cultivation is uncertain. 



Specimens were added to the Bayfordbury collection in 1908. 

 The cone photographed grew at Pampisford, Cambridge, and seed- 

 lings were raised from this source in 1907. 



