28 Illustrations of Conifers. 



ABIES VEITCHII (Lindley). 



Gardeners' Chronicle, Vol. XIII. p. 275 (1880). 

 Veitch's Man. Conif, ed. 2, p. 641 (1900). 

 Trees of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. IV. p. 768 (1909). 



A TREE attaining a height of 70 feet with a girth of 7 feet. Bark of 

 trunk grey and smooth. Branchlets smooth and more or less covered 

 with short dense pubescence. Buds subglobose, small, purple, resinous. 

 Leaves on lateral branches ; those on the under side pectinate ; 

 those on the upper side shorter and covering the branchlet, the 

 the median ones pointing upwards and forwards. Leaves - 1 inch 

 long, one-sixteenth inch wide, with a bifid apex ; upper surface dark 

 green ; lower surface with two silvery broad bands of stomata. 



Cones cylindrical, about 2 - 2 inches long and f - 1 inch in 

 diameter, purple when young, brown when mature. Scales small ; 

 bracts as long as the scales and slightly protruding. Seed with wing 

 f inch long. 



Abies Veitchii was discovered in 1860 by J. G. Veitch, and in- 

 troduced into England by Maries in 1879. It grows on Fuji-yama 

 and on other mountains in the main island of Japan at altitudes 

 above 5,000 to 6,000 feet. 



Specimens were added to the Pinetum at Bayfordbury in 1906. 

 The cone figured is a native specimen. 



