8 SUPPLEMENT TO THE PINETUM. 



diction it is also styled " Row/' and " Rai/' and in the Kohis- 

 tan of the Punjab, and in Kooloo, " Koodrow/' but in Kuma- 

 oon and Gurbwal, " Morinda," and " Koodrai," are its more 

 common appellations. The Chinese call it " Jo-bi-sjo'^ (common 

 or native), and the Japanese " Torano-wo-momi^' (Tiger's tail 

 fir), on account of the long pendulous branchlets on old trees 

 resembling the tail of a tiger ; they also call it " Siro-momi " 

 (white fir), in allusion to its timber being light coloured or al- 

 most white. 



This Fir is very common above the Deodar forests, on the 

 mountains of Cashmere, and stretches as far as Gilgit, its most 

 northern habitat as yet ascertained ; Dr. Griffith found it as far 

 to the eastward as Bhotan, at elevations varying from 7,500 to 

 10,500 feet, a large and handsome tree. In the Himalayas it 

 is the most graceful Fir met with, on account of its long droop- 

 ing branchlets and great dimensions, which sometimes measure 

 from 18 to 20 feet in girth, four feet from the earth's surface, and 

 towers 150 feet or more into the heavens ; but its wood is soft, 

 open grained, and said, when converted into boats, not to last 

 more than five or six years. 



Section II. TSUGA — the yew^-leaved spruces; with flat 

 leaves, glaucous below, and more or less two-ranked like 

 those on the Hemlock Spruce. 



Abies Alcoqueana,* Veitch, the Alcock Spruce. 

 Leaves, solitary, six lines long, and half a line broad ; linear, 

 flat, narrow and obtuse, or emarginateatthe points ; deep green 

 above, somewhat concave, and streaked with glaucous bands 



tic, of tlie botanist ; for the difficulty is older than the time of Pliny, who 

 was as much puzzled to identify the G-reek Pines as we are to make but 

 some of the Conifers of learned professors, whose only resources in such 

 matters are derived from mummy fragments and book lore. 

 * Botanical pedantry for Alcock, a man's name. 



