80 Illustrations of Conifers. 



LARIX POTANINI (Batidht). Chinesk Larch. 



Act. Hurt. Petrop. XIII. p. 885 (1894). 



Gardener*' Chronicle, Vol. XXXIX. p. 178 (190G) with fig. 



Trees of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. II. p. 891 (1907). 



A tree attaining in western China a height of 70 feet with a 

 girth of 6 feet. Young branchlets bright yellow with a scattered 

 pubescence. Buds ovoid. Leaves slender, about one inch long, 

 sharply pointed, keeled and with two bands of stomata, each of two 

 lines, on both the upper and lower surfaces. 



Staminate flowers \ inch long, shortly stalked ; pistillate flowers 

 ovoid, narrow and rounded at the apex. Cones cylindrical, 1| inch 

 long, with scales and bracts pointing upwards and outwards ; scales 

 about \ inch long, reddish -brown, pubescent on the lower part of 

 the outer surface ; with a rounded or truncate, entire, slightly in- 

 flexed upper margin ; bract extending beyond the scale. 



Larix Potanini is a native of western China where it was 

 found by Potanin, Prince Henry of Orleans, Pratt and Wilson in 

 the neighbourhood of the Szechuan - Thibetan frontier near Ta- 

 chienlu at 7,500 to 11,000 feet altitude. 



The specimen illustrated, which was collected by Mr. E. H. 

 Wilson, was kindly lent by Messrs. Veitch. Young trees were 

 planted at Bayfordbury in 1910. 



