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Peirop. XX. 200 {Fl. Mansh.) (1901). — Beissner, Handb. Nadelhohk. 



ed. 2, 186 (1909). 

 Abies Veitchii Masters in Jour. Linn. Soc. XVIII. 516 (non Lindley) (1881). — 



Herder in Act. Hort. Petrop. XII. 118 (1890). 

 Abies sibirica Korshinsky in Act. Hort. Petrop. XII. 424 (non Ledebour) 



(1890). 

 Pvius nephrolepis Voss in Mitt. Deutsch. Dendr. Ges. XVI. 94 (1907). 



Shansi: Wutai-shan, 1909, TF. Fwrdom (No. 143). Manchuria: mountains, 

 12 hours east of Harbin by railway, rare, August 31, 1903, C. S. Sargent. Amur 

 region: May 27, 1891,5. Korshinsky. 



Our specimens of this interesting addition to the known flora of China agree exactly 

 with Trautvetter's original description, and we believe that it can only be regarded 

 as a variety of A. sibirica Ledebour. It is in fact the eastern Asiatic form of that 

 species and its region of distribution is similar to that of Larix dahurica Turczani- 

 now. The slightly different shaped cone with larger bracts and rather different 

 shaped cone-scales and the more hairy branchlets serve to distinguish the variety 

 from the type species. Maximowicz in raising it to a distinct species com- 

 pared it with A. Veitchii Lindley to which species however it is only remotely 

 related, although superficially they do resemble one another somewhat. In ^4. 

 sibirica, var. nephrolepis Trautvetter, the resin-ducts are median as in A. sibirica 

 Ledebour, not lateral as in .A. Veitchii Lindley; in the leaves and characters of the 

 branchlets it is also well removed from the latter species. 



Wutai-shan, where Purdom collected his specimens, is a particularly interesting 

 region from the point of view of geographical botany. It is the southernmost 

 locality in China for a number of Siberian and Manchurian trees and shrubs 

 and is the most western point reached by many Korean and Manchurian species. 



Subfam. TAXODIEAE Pari. 

 CUNNINGHAMIA R. Br. 



Cunninghamia lanceolata Hooker in Bot. Mag. LIV. t. 2743 (1827). 



Pinus Abies Loureiro, Fl. Cochin. 579 (non Linnaeus) (1790), synonymis 

 excludendis. 



Pinus lanceolata Lambert, Descr. Pinus, 52, t. 34 (1803). 



Abies lanceolata Poiret in Lamarck, Encycl. Meth. VI. 523 (1804). 



Belts jaculifolia Sahsbury in Trans. Linn. Soc. VIII. 315 (1807). 



Cunninghamia sinensis Brown apud Richard, Conif. 80, t. 18, fig. 3 (1826). — 

 Link in Linnaea, XV. 540 (1841). — Siebold & Zuccarini, Fl. Jap. II. 7, t. 

 103, 104 (1844); in Abh. Akad. Miinch. IV. pt. III. 235 {Fl. Jap. Fam. 

 Nat. II. Ill) (1846).— Bentham, Fl. Hongk. 337 (1861). — Miquel in Ann. 

 Mus. Ludg.-Bat. III. 167 (1867); Prol. Fl. Jap. 331 (1867). — Parlatore in 

 De CandoUe, Prodr. XVI. pt. II. 432 (1868). — Debeaux in Act. Soc. 

 Linn. Bordeaux, XXX. 109 {Fl. Shangh. 57) (1875).— Masters in Jour. 

 Linn. Soc. XVIII. 502 (1881); XXVI. 548 (1902) ; XXXVII. 415 (1906). — 

 Franchet in Nouv. Arch. Mus. Paris, ser. 2, VII. 101 {PI. David. I. 291) 

 (1884); in Jour, de Bot. XIII. 262 (1899). — Beissner in Nuov. Giorn. 

 Bot. Ital. n. ser. IV. 185 (1897). — Pritzel in Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. 218 

 (1900). — Shirasawa, Icon. Ess. For. Jap. I. 23, t. 9, fig. 1-24 (1900).— 



