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rhombic scales paler in color and winter-buds with more loosely appressed and 

 more recurved scales. The shoots in P. Meyeri show great variat ion in degree of 

 pubescence, and this is not constant from year to year on the same branch. One 

 year a shoot may be densely pubescent and the next year the new shoot on the 

 same branch almost glabrous. 



Picea Schrenkiana Fischer & Meyer in Bull. Acad. Sci. St. Petershourg, X. 253 

 (1842). — Kegel in Act. Hort. Petrop. VI. pt. 2, 485 (1880). — Clinton-Baker, III. 

 Conif. II. 48, t. (1909). — Patschke in Bot. Jahrh. XLVIII. 766 (1913). 



Picea orientalis, |3. longifolia Lebebour, Fl. Ross. Ill, 671 (1846-1851). 



Pinus Schrenkiana Antoine, Conif. 97 (1847). 



Abies Schrenkia?ia Lindley & Gordon in Jour. Hort. Soc. Lond. V. 212 

 (1850). — Maximowicz in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. LIV. 58 (1879).— 

 Kanitz in Novell. Gyiijit. Szechenyi, II. 848 (PI. Enum. 64) (1891). 



Picea obovata Schrenkiana Carriere, Traite Conif. ed. 2, 338 (1867). — Mas- 

 ters mJour. Linn. Soc. XVIII. 506 (1881); XXVI. 554 (1902). — Pritzel 

 in Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. 217 (1900). 



Pinus obovata, /3. Schrenkiana Parlatore in De CandoUe, Prodr. XVI. pt. 2, 

 415 (1868). 



Abies Smithiana Herder in Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. XLI. pt. 1. 423 {Enum. 

 PI. Semenov.) (non Forbes) (1868). 



Picea tianschanica Ruprecht in Mem. Acad. Sci. St. Petersbourg, s6t. 7, XIV. 

 No. IV. 72 {Sert. Tianschan.) (1869). 



Pinus abies, f. schrenkiana Voss in Mitt. Deutsch. Dendr. Ges. XVI. 93 (1907). 



Northern Chili: Weichang west, south & northeast, alt. 1300 m., W. Purdom 

 (Nos. 202, 203, 100); south of Jehol, 1909, W. Purdom (No. 205). Kansu: 

 Choni, 1911, W. Purdom (No. 813); " Lotani," 1911, W. Purdom (No. 806); Tow 

 River, 1911, W. Purdom (No. 790). 



Apparently common in these regions. 



Sect. II. Casicta Mayr. 



Picea purpurea Masters in Jour. Linn. Soc. XXXVII. 418 (1906) ; 

 in Fedde, Rep. Sp. Nov. IV. 109 (1907). — Beissner, Handb. Nadel- 

 holzk. ed. 2, 288 (1909). — Patschke in Bot. Jahrb. XLVIII. 632 

 (1913). 



Western Szech'uan: Sungpan Ting, forests, alt. 3000-3600 m., 

 August and October 1910. (Nos. 4062, 4059, 4063); same locality- 

 August 1903 (Veitch Exped. No. 3026, type). Kansu: Taochau 

 Ting, 1911, W. Purdom (No. 815). 



This handsome and remarkable Spruce is abundant in the forests round Sung- 

 pan. Young trees are pyramidal in outhne, but old trees have wide-spreading, 

 thick, horizontally disposed branches and massive trunks. The small violet- 

 purple cones are very distinct with cone-scales abruptly contracted above the 

 middle and acute or merely rhombic, truncate or erose. The bark is dark grey and 

 fissured into rather thin, scaly flakes. The timber is brownish, close-grained, 

 resinous and much-esteemed for building purposes. 



Pictures of this tree and of the cones will be found under Nos. 0294, 0301, 0315, 

 0316, 0323 of the collection of Wilson's photographs. 



