Illustrations of Conifers. 85 



FOKIENIA HODGINSII (A. Henry and H. H. Thomas). 



Gardeners' Chronicle, Vol. XLIX. p. 66 (1911) with figs. 



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Cupreous Hndginsii (Dunn) Jnum. Linn. Soc. (B->t.), Vol. XXXVIII. p. 367 (1908). 

 ,, Trees of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. V. p. 1150 (1910). 



A tree attaining in China 40 feet in height and 3 feet in girth. 

 Foliage arranged in flattened branchlet systems, tri-pinnate, the 

 pinnse disposed in one plane. Leaves in four ranks, the lateral 

 pair in each rank being different from the facial pair and differing 

 markedly on young and old trees 



Leaves on young plants larger than those on adult trees, about 

 \ inch long with spine-like points ; lateral leaves triangular, flat, 

 longer than the facial leaves, with which they are connate, and con- 

 spicuously white with stomata below ; facial leaves oblanceolate, 

 shorter and much narrower than the lateral leaves, the ventral 

 leaf with a raised midrib on each side of which is a narrow band 

 of stomata. 



Leaves on adult trees arising in whorls of four at the same 

 level ; the lateral and facial pairs about ^ inch in length, 

 acute or sub-acute ; lateral leaves conduplicate, embracing the 

 facial leaves, and with white stomatic depressions on their ventral 

 surfaces ; facial leaves oblanceolate, with a broad triangular apex. 

 On older branches the internodes elongate, the leaves arising at 

 different levels in opposite decussate pairs ; lateral pair oblong, 

 with the trianglar apex spreading outwards and tipped with an 

 incurved point ; the facial pair similar but with the apex ap- 

 pressed. 



Staminate flowers not seen. Young female cones terminal, 

 composed of six to eight pairs of opposite decussate, bluntly pointed, 

 rounded scales ; ovules two on each scale, flask-shaped. Mature 

 cones ripening in the second year, on short scaly stalks, globose, 

 about 1 inch long and \ inch wide when open ; scales 12 to 16, 

 woody, peltate, clavate or cuneate in shape, expanded externally 

 into a wrinkled oblong striated apophysis, which is concave and 

 mucronate. Seeds two on each fertile scale, about \ inch long, 

 triquetrous or tetrahedral, pointed at the distal end, flattened at 

 the base with two large resin-vesicles underneath the seed coat 



