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turgh, of cone and leaves from Castle Martyr, Co. Cork. The cone is- 

 about 6 inches long by 2^ inches broad. On examining the leaves^ 

 attached to the shoot, they are found to have the same anatomical 

 characters as those already described. In the same Museum are two' 

 other cones without leaves — one from Castle Martyr measuring 7 inches 

 by 2\ inches, and the other from Holkam Hall, which only measures^ 

 5\ inches in length by 2+ inches in breadth. 



17. Finns {Abies), sp. nov. (?) 



I have met with two specimens of a pine closely related to Pin- 

 drow and Webbiana, which on further investigation may turn out to 

 be new. The first specimen was noticed while examining the specimens- 

 in the Herbarium of Trinity College, Dublin. It was marked, "Abies 

 AYebbiana, Himalaya occid., 9,000 to 12,000, Hook. fil. et Thomson." 

 The leaves are li^ to 2 inches in length, and only very slightly notched 

 at the apex. The second specimen was met with in the Museum, 

 Eoyal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh. It was a fine cone-bearing shoot, 

 with leaves, and had been grown at Castle Kennedy, in Scotland. 

 The cone measures 1h inches by 2, and the leaves are long and nar- 

 row, 2 inches long in most cases, from t^- to iV inch wide, and only 

 slightly notched at the apex. 



Transverse section of leaf. — Leaf flattened, about four times as- 

 broad as thick, sides rounded, upper surface with a slightly-marked 

 longitudinal furrow, below with a scarcely prominent midrib. Hypo- 

 derma well developed, forming a continuous (Castle Kennedy speci- 

 men) or slightly interrupted (Himalayan specimen) band running all 

 round the leaf, except where the stomata are developed in a band on 

 each side of the midrib. The resin-canals are in the parenchyma of 

 the leaf, and separated from the lower epidermis by several chlorophyll- 

 bearing cells. The pallisade parenchyma is well developed on the 

 upper side, there being no stomata on the upper epidermis, and below 

 is the parenchyma with intercellular spaces communicating with the 

 stomata, of which there are about 10 rows in each of the bands. 



Fibro-vascular bundle double, with thickened cells above and 

 below, the whole surrounded by a well-marked sheath. 



The figure (PI. 48, fig. 19) isdi'awn from the Himalayan specimen, 

 which is smaller, and possesses less hypoderm than the specimen from. 

 Castle Kennedy. 



The cone is small, in this resembling Pindi'ow, but as it was un- 

 broken the bracts could not be described. 



Although I have examined eleven different cultivated specimens of 

 Webbiana and Pindrow, I have only met with this one new form from 

 Castle Kennedy, so that it must be very rare in our gardens and 

 nurseries. 



I abstain from giving this a name, as the synonymy of the group is 

 obscure, and already several different names have been given to sup- 

 posed species. 



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