50 SUPPLEMENT T€ THE PTNETUM. 



Section II. BREVIBRACTEATA, or those kinds with the 

 bracteas shorter than the scales^ and hidden in the cones. 



PicKA CiLiciCA, JRaiich, the Cilician Silver Fir. 

 Syn. Abies Cilicica, Carriere. 



„ „ Tchugatskoij Lawson. 



„ „ Sibirica alba^ Fischer. 



„ „ Pichta alba, Carriere. 



,, „ ,, Fischeri, Loudon. 



„ „ 'Kw^TA^ Hort — Paris. 



„ Picea Sibirica alba, Hart. 



„ „ Pichta alba, Hart. 



„ „ „ longifolia, Hort. 



,, „ Hinzi, Hort, 



„ Pinus Cilicica, Kotschy. 



„ „ Tchugatskoi, Fischer. 



„ „ Sibirica alba, Fischer. 



„ J, Pichta longifolia, Hoi't, ^ 

 Leaves, densely and irregularly arranged in two rows, and 

 more or less horizontally placed along the branchlets, but some- 

 what scattered all round the leading shoots ; and from one to 

 one inch and three quarters long, and rather more than one line 

 broad, quite straight, linear, flat, long and narrow, with the 

 ends bidented, and the base twisted ; of a dark shining green 

 on the upper side, and quite glaucous below, except on the 

 mid-rib and margins, which are of a deep green colour. 

 Branches mostly in whorls, thickly set on the stem, from the 

 base upwards, the lower ones being horizontal, but as they ascend 

 the stem, they get gradually shorter and more elevated at their 

 points; branchlets and smaller spray, slender, rather short, flat, 

 much divided, spreading, and thickly set in two horizontal 

 rows along the branches. Male catkins on footstalks, cylin- 

 drical, and rounded at the ends; cones erect, from 7 to 8 

 inches long, and nearly 2 inches in diameter, of a cylindrical 



