56 Illustrations of Conifers. 



LARIX GRIFFITHII (Hooker). SIKKIM LARCH. 



Gardeners' Chronicle, Vol. XXVI. p. 464 (1886), with fig. 



Veitch's Man. Conif. ed. 2, p. 895 (1900). 



Trees of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. II. p. 888 (1907). 



A TREE 40 to 60 feet high with thick reddish-brown bark. Branches 

 long and widely spreading, pendulous. Young branchlets stout, pubes- 

 cent, reddish-brown. Leaves light-green up to l inches long ; upper 

 surface rounded or flat ; lower surface deeply keeled with lines of 

 stomata on both surfaces. 



Cones cylindric, 3-4 inches long, tapering to a narrow apex, 

 glaucous-green or purplish, with orange-brown bracts before ripening, 

 composed of five spiral rows of scales which spread almost at right 

 angles to the axis when mature ; bracts exserted, lanceolate, cus- 

 pidate. Seed with wing seven-sixteenths inch long. 



Larix Griffithii is a native of the Himalayas occupying a restricted 

 area in eastern Nepal, Sikkim and western Bhotan at 8,000 to 12,000 

 feet elevation. It was discovered by Griffith in 1837. Although 

 introduced in 1848 by Sir Joseph Hooker who sent seed to Kew, it 

 has failed to grow in England except in the south-west where there 

 are a few good specimens. 



The cones figured were produced by a fine tree at Coldrenick, 

 Cornwall. Seedlings from this tree were planted in Bell's Wood, 

 Bayford, in 1907. 



