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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



PART 11 f. 



t. 2. j and OQlJlgt. 2251. and 2252. 



was, in 1837, 1 ft. high. The finest plants of this species in the neighbour- 

 hood of London are at the Hendon Rectory, where, in October, 1837, one 

 was 2 ft. high, and the other 1 ft. 8 in., both in pots. Price of plants, in the 

 London nurseries, three guineas each. 



1 8. P. WEBBIA^NA Wall. Webb's purple-coned Silver Fir. 



Synonymes. Plnus WebbJna Wall, in Litt., Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., 2. t. 44. ; P. spectabilis Lamb. 



Monog., 2. ; p. 3. t. 2. ; ^'bies \Vebbidna Lindl. in Penn. Cyc., No. 7., Royle Illust. ; Chilrow, 



and the Oonum, or purple-coned fir, in the Himalayas. 

 Engravings. Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., t. 44. ; Monog, " 



Spec. Char., $c. Leaves 2- 



rowed, linear, flat, obtusely 



emarginate, silvery beneath. 



Cones cylindrical ; scales 



kidney-shaped, roundish ; 



bracteoles oblong, apiculate. 



(D. I)on.j Buds round, 



pointless, thickly covered 



with a yellow resin, by which 



alone the tree may be 



readily distinguished from 



every other species of Picea. 



Cones from 6 in. to 7 in. 



long, and above 2 in. broad. 



Leaves of young plants, in 



the Horticultural Society's 



Garden, from 1 in. to 2 in. 



long. Scale above 1 in. 



long, and 1 in. broad. 



Seeds, with the wing, f in. 



long; wing f in. broad in 



the widest part. Seeds 



^ in. long, and ^ in. broad. 



In general they are smaller, 



but longer, and with a sharper 



point, than those of the 



common silver fir; and, like 



the seeds of the common 



silver fir, they are of a brown- 

 ish purple colour. Cotyle- 

 dons, ?. A tree, a native of 



Nepal, in which country it 



was discovered by Captain 



W. S. Webb. Introduced 



into England by Dr. Wal- 



lich, in 1822. 



Description, fyc. A large, 

 handsome, pyramidal tree, from 

 80 ft. to 90ft. high, with a trunk 

 from 3 ft. to 4 ft. in diameter 

 near the base. Branches nu- 

 merous, spreading horizon- 

 tally, much divided, densely 

 clothed with leaves, disposed 

 in whorls, covered with a pale 

 ash-coloured, rough, scaly bark ; bent upwards at the apex. Wood compact, 

 whitish rose-colour. Leaves linear, solitary, crowded, 2-rowed, spreading, 

 coriaceous, smooth, shining; l^in. to 2 in. long, 2 lines broad; very dark 

 green above ; canaliculate, somewhat deflexed on the margin, quite entire ; 



