24 Illustrations of Conifers. 



ABIES PIN8APO (Boissier). SPANISH FIR. 



Gardeners' Chronicle, Vol. XXIV. p. 468 (1886), with fig. 



Vol. XXVI. p. 8 (1886), with fig. 



Vol. III. new series, p. 140 (1888), with fig. 



Veitch's Man. Conif. ed. 2, p. 584 (1900). 

 Trees of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. IV. p. 782 (1909). 



A TREE, attaining a maximum height of 100 feet with a trunk 15 feet 

 in girth. Bark greyish-brown, smooth when young, fissured when old. 

 Young branchlets glabrous, slightly grooved. Buds ovoid, obtuse, 

 resinous. 



Leaves on lateral branchlets spirally arranged, linear, flattened, 

 thick and rigid, not more than f inch long, gradually tapering to the 

 acute apex, occasionally curved ; upper surface convex, not furrowed, 

 with stomatic lines ; lower surface with two bands of stomata. 



Cones brownish when mature, pubescent, cylindrical, tapering 

 to an obtuse apex, 4-5 inches long by l-lf inches in diameter, but 

 smaller in cultivated examples ; scales triangular-cuneate, clawed ; 

 bracts ovate, mucronate, much shorter than the scales. Seed with 

 wing lj inch long. 



This fir is only known in a wild state on the Serrania de Eonda 

 in the south of Spain, where it forms forests at from 3,500 to 6,000 

 feet altitude. It was discovered by Edmond Boissier in 1837, and 

 introduced into England in 1839 by Captain Widdrington. As a 

 cultivated tree it is one of the most ornamental species of the genus 

 and thrives on limestone. 



The best tree at Bayfordbury now measures 55 feet by 5 feet 

 10 inches. The date of planting is not recorded. 



