1374 The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland 



PICEA MAXIMOWICZII 



Picea Maximowiczii, Kegel, in Index Sem. Hort. Petrop. 33 (1865); Carrifere, Conif. 347 (1867); 



Masters, in Gard. Chron. xiii. 363 (1880), and Journ. Linn. Soc. (Bot.) xviii. 507 (1881); 



Mayr, Abiet. Jap. Reiches, 98 (1890). 

 Picea obovata, Ledebour, yax. Japonica, Beissner, Nadelholzkunde, 370 (1891). 

 Picea Tschonoskii, Mayr.i Fremdldnd. Wald-u. Parkbdume, 339 (1906). 

 Abies obovata, Loudon, var. japonica, Maximowicz, in Index Sem. Hort. Petrop. i and 3 (1866); 



Franchet, Enum. PI. Jap. i. 466 (1875). 

 Abies Maximowiczii, Neumann, Cat. 1865, ex Parlatore, in De Candolle, Prod. xvi. 2, p. 431 (1868) ; 



Veitch, Man. Conif. 80 (188 1). 



A small tree. Young branchlets reddish brown, glabrous, with the apices of the 

 pulvini all directed outwards and forwards. Buds about \ in. long, ovoid, acute, 

 with glabrous rounded resinous scales. Leaves on lateral branches radially spreading 

 on all sides at nearly a right angle to the branchlet, but with their tips pointing 

 slightly forwards ; | to ^ in, long, rigid, tapering near the apex which is tipped with 

 a short blunt point ; green, quadrangular in section, with three to five stomatic lines 

 on each surface ; resin-canals two, lateral, close to the epidermis. 



Cones, if to 2 in. long, i in. in diameter when open, shining brown when ripe, 

 cylindrical, but tapering at both ends : scales numerous, obovate with a cuneate claw, 

 \ in. wide ; rounded, entire, and bevelled in the upper margin : glabrous in the 

 exposed part, elsewhere covered with a minute reddish pubescence : bract about 

 ^ in. long, oblong, with a rounded faintly denticulate apex. Seeds, not extending to 

 the upper and lateral margins of the scale, \ in. long, dark brown mottled with lighter 

 streaks ; seed with wing \ in. long ; wing widest near the upper rounded denticulate 

 margin. 



This species is readily distinguishable by its short leaves radially arranged, and 

 its resinous buds. At Kew it produces new shoots a month earlier than P. bicolor. 



This spruce is a native of Japan, where it was collected in 1864 on Mt. 

 Fujiyama by Tschonoski,^ a young Japanese collector in the employment of 

 Maximowicz. One of the original specimens from this locality is preserved at Kew, 

 where there is also an imperfect specimen,' collected in the same year in the province 

 of Senano by Tschonoski, which was recognised by Maximowicz to be the same 

 species.* It appears to be very rare, and has not since been found by Japanese 

 botanists. Maximowicz considered it to be a variety of P. obovata, from which it is 

 clearly distinct ; but it is rather related to P. bicolor, though differing much in foliage 

 and in cones. 



1 Mayr erroneously considered that the tree cultivated as P. Maximaiviczii was different from Tschonoski's Fujiyama 

 specimen. He identified the latter with P. bicolor, and proposed a new name, P. Tschonoskit, for the former. 



2 Maximowicz, in Rhamn. As. Or. 17 (1866), gave an account of Tschonoski, who was a Japanese and not a Russian as 

 some authors have supposed. He gathered about 800 species of Japanese plants, and sent seeds of many kinds to St. 

 Petersburg. 



» Consisting of a cone and a single leaf. The cones on the Grignon tree, about 2 in. long, are intermediate in size 

 between those of the Fujiyama tree (which are i| in. long) and those of the Senano specimen (about 2\ in. long). 



* The Senano specimen is labelled Abies obovata, Loudon, var. japonica, Maximowicz ; and the Fujiyama specimen is 

 named Picea Maximowiczii, Regel. 



