48 Illustrations of Conifers. 



PICEA SCHRENKIANA (Fischer and Meyer). 



Vritch's Man. Conif. ed. 2, p. 451 (1900). 



A LARGE tree apparently attaining similar dimensions to Picea obovata. 

 Branchlets ashy grey, glabrous or with a scattered short pubescence. 

 Buds large, ovoid, with light brown, obtuse, ciliate scales. 



Leaves on laterel branches in an imperfect radial arrangement, 

 } to H inches long, straight or curved, rigid, tipped in young trees with 

 a long sharp cartilaginous point, obscurely quadrangular in section, with 

 about three stomatic lines on each side. 



Cones cylindric, obtuse, 3 - 4 inches long and 1 - 1 J inches in 

 diameter, dark, shining brown ; scales obovate-cuneate with a truncate 

 entire margin. 



This species which was discovered in 1840 by Schrenk in Soongaria, 

 forms large forests in Russian Turkestan, north of lat. 41 at 4,500 to 

 10,000 feet elevation and extends eastward through Chinese territory 

 along the Tian-shan mountains. 



A specimen was added to the Bayfordbury collection in 1907. 

 The foliage illustrated is a specimen kindly sent by Mr. L. Spath of 

 Berlin. The cone figured was collected in Turkestan by Dr. Regel 

 and kindly lent by Messrs. Veitch. 



