1364 The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland 



In Canon Ellacombe's garden at Bitton there is a dwarf bush of considerable 

 age, which when covered with young cones is very ornamental. From it I have 

 raised seedlings which grow very slowly. 



In Scotland the finest tree we know of is at Durris, which in 1904 was 61 ft. by 



6 ft. 3 in. 



In Ireland Henry measured at Fota one which in 1903 was about 67 ft. by 6 ft. 



(H. J. E.) 



PICEA SCHRENKIANA, Schrenk's Spruce 



Picea Schrenkiana, Fischer and Meyer, in Bull. Acad. Sci. St. Petersb. x. 253 (1842); Regal, in Garten- 

 flora, xxvi. 69 (1877), and xxix. 49 (1880).; Fedtschenko, in Bull. Herb. Boissier, vii. 189 

 (1899); Kent, Veitch's Man. Conif. 451 (1900); Clinton-Baker, Illust. Conif. ii. 48 (1909)- 



Picea tianschanica, Ruprecht, in MSm. Acad. Sci. St. Petersb. xiv. No. 3, p. 72 (1870). 



Picea obovata, Ledebour, van Schrenkiana, Masters, mjourn. Linn. Soc. {Bot.) xviii. 506 (1881). 



Pinus Schrenkiana, Antoine, Conif. 97 (1840-1847). 



Pinus obovata, Antoine, var. Schrenkiana, Parlatore, in De Candolle, Prod. xvi. 2, p. 415 (1868). 



Pinus orientalis, Linnseus, var. longifolia, Ledebour, Fl. Ross. iii. 671 (1847). 



Abies Schrenkiana, Lindley and Gordon, in /ourn. Hort. Soc. Lond. v. 212 (1850). 



A large tree, attaining in Turkestan the dimensions of P. obovata. Young 

 branchlets ashy grey, stout, glabrous. Buds dome-shaped or sub-globose, \ in. in 

 length, rounded at the apex, light brown, with scarious scales ; terminal bud girt 

 with a ring of acuminate keeled pubescent ciliate scales and closely surrounded at the 

 base by the uppermost leaves of the branchlet. 



Leaves in an imperfect radial arrangement, dense and pointing forwards on the 

 upper side of the branchlet, spreading with a few leaves pointing forwards and not 

 truly pectinate on the lower side of the branchlet ; \\.o\\ in. long, straight or curved, 

 rigid, gradually tapering at the distal end to a long fine sharp -pointed apex^; 

 obscurely quadrangular in section, with three to four lines of stomata on each of the 

 four sides. 



Cones, 3 to 4 in. long, cylindrical, narrowing towards the obtuse apex, shining 

 dark brown when ripe ; scales numerous, closely imbricated, longer than broad, 

 about \ in. wide, obovate-cuneate, with the upper exposed part thin and glabrous, 

 concealed part thicker and minutely pubescent ; upper margin rounded, entire, 

 undulate ; bract \ in. long, ovate. Seed, light brown, \ in. long ; seed with wing 

 \ in. long ; wing narrow, widest near the rounded apex. 



This species was discovered in 1840 by Schrenk, and is widely distributed in 

 Central Asia, occurring mainly in the Alatau mountains and in the Thianshan " range 

 in Turkestan, where, according to Fedtschenko, it forms vast forests, now rapidly 

 disappearing, as far south as lat. 41°, at 4000 to 8000 ft. altitude towards the 

 north, and at 8000 to 10,000 ft. towards the south. It does not appear to 



1 In wild specimens from old trees, the leaves end in a short acute callous tip. 



'^ Both Regel and Komarov agree that the spruce in the Thianshan range, considered by Ruprecht to be a distinct species 

 {P. tianschanica), is identical with P. Schrenkiana in the Alatau range. 



