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numerous resinous tears found on tlie cones and other parts of 

 the tree. It is also called '' Kala-rai" (Black Fir) by the 

 people along the snowy mountains, who also apply the term 

 " Kala-bun" (Black Forest) to the woods where it alone 

 grows ; from the dark green of the leaves on the upper surface 

 giving the trees a sombre yew-like appearance at a distance, 

 and which causes the mountaineers constantly to confound it 

 with the " Thooner" (Yew), and which no doubt led Dr. Wal- 

 Hch (who trusted too much to local names) to give to this Fir 

 the name of Taxus Lambertiana, he not having at the time seen 

 its cones, or even probably the living tree. Its Khasiya name 

 is Hagha, and the Bhotiyas call it " Woomun" (purple cone). 



This tree forms dense forests on all the great spurs of the 

 Kumaoon Alps, from 7,500 to 9,000 feet of elevation, but 

 under proper conditions it will ascend and descend above and 

 below these elevations, always, however, exhibiting its pre- 

 ference for northern and western aspects. Mr. Winterbottom 

 found it plentiful on the Peer Punjal in Cashmere, flowering in 

 April and May, and ripening its cones, which are of the same 

 rich purple colour as those of Picea Webbiana, in October and 

 November of the same year. 



Picea Veitchit, Hort, Veitch's Silver Fir. 

 Syn. Abies Veitchii, Lindley. 

 Leaves, linear, flat, and all thickly arranged in an incurved 

 manner on the upper side of the branchlets ; obtuse or emar- 

 ginate at the points, keeled, glaucous, concave, and streaked 

 with white on the under side, and varying from 6 to 12 lines 

 long, and three quarters of a line broad. Branches rather 

 stout, with the cones from ^j to 2| inches long, and 2f 

 inches in circumference : somewhat cylindrical, blunt pointed, 

 and erect on the upper side of the branches ; scales rounded 

 on the upper part, flattened and half-moon shaped, with a foot- 

 stalk below i bracteas hidden, but even in length with the 

 scales, wedge-shaped, and terminating in a little point or 

 prickly ; seeds testaceous, 3 lines long, angular, crested, and 



