Illustrations of Conifers. 61 



TORREYA GRANDIS {Fortune). 



Gardeners' Chronicle, 1857, p. 788. 

 1858, p. 588. 



18G0, p. 170. 

 1884, p. 681, with fig. 

 Gordon's Pinetum,p. 326 (1858). 

 Trees of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. VI. p. 1464 (1912). 



An evergreen tree attaining in China, according to Fortune, a height 

 of 60 to 80 feet. Young shoots green, glabrous. Buds ovoid, 

 T \>- inch long, with broad rounded shining scales. Leaves without 

 a disagreeable or pungent odour, spreading at right angles to the 

 stem in a two-ranked arrangement, about | inch long, linear, 

 dark green and shining above, paler below with two stomatic bands 

 in narrow furrows on each side of the midrib. Fruit ellipsoid, 

 about one inch long, with a reddish-brown shell. 



Torreya grandis was discovered by Fortune in the mountains 

 of Chekiang, on the east coast of China, in 1855. It is closely allied 

 to the Japanese T. mici/era, but differs in its leaves, which are 

 shorter, straighter, more crowded, and with acute and not acuminate 

 points. It is now rare in cultivation in England. 



The specimen illustrated was kindly forwarded by M. Allard, 

 from Angers, France. 



