50 Illustrations of Conifers. 



PICEA 8PINULO8A (Henry}. 

 PICEA MORINDOIDES (JRehder). SIKKIM SPRUCE. 



Gardeners' Chronicle, Vol. XXXIX. pp. 182, 219 (1906). 

 Botanical Magazine, Vol. 188, t. 8169 (1908). 



A TREE attaining 80 feet in height. Branchlets glabrous, slender, 

 yellowish when young but becoming grey with age. Buds ovoid, 

 about inch long, pale brown, slightly resinous with obtuse scales. 



Leaves in an imperfect radial arrangement, more crowded on the 

 upper side of the branchlet, f - 1 inches long, tipped at the apex 

 with a sharp point, flattened, with two white bands of stomata on 

 the upper surface, and green below. 



Cones cylindric, obtuse, 2-3 inches long and about 1 inch in 

 diameter, light brown, slightly lustrous ; scales spathulate, obovate, 

 inch long, with a finely serrate margin. Seeds inch long ; wing 

 inch long. 



Picea morindoides was described by Rehder from a cultivated tree 

 at Angers, France. It belongs to the flat-leaved section of Picea 

 which includes P. ajanensis and P. Omorika. Its origin was at first 

 unknown, but Dr. Henry's investigations have proved it to be a native 

 of the eastern Himalayas, where it occurs sparingly in Sikkim, Bhotan 

 and the Chumbi Valley, at elevations between 8,500 and 10,000 feet. 

 It was discovered by Griffith on the Rodoli Mountain in Bhotan and 

 named in 1847, Abies spinulosa. Very few specimens are known in 

 cultivation. 



The illustration represents a branchlet of a tree at Menabilly, 

 Cornwall. Seedlings were raised from cones produced by this tree 

 in 1908. 



