1474 The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland 



KETELEERIA FORTUNEI 



Ketekeria Fortunei, Carrifere, in Hev. Hort. 1868, p. 132, and 1887, p. 207; Pirotta, in Bull. Soc. 

 Tosc. Ort. 1889, p. 200; Masters, in Gard. Chron. ii. 440 (1887), and in Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 {Bot.) xxvi. 555 (1902); Mayr, Fremdldnd. Wald- u. Parkbiiiime, 292, fig. 86 (1906); Clinton- 

 Baker, Illust. Conif. i. 73 (1909). 



Picea Fortuni, Murray, in Proc. Hort. Soc. 1862, p. 421. 



Abies Fortunei, Murray, Pines and Firs of Japan, 49 (1863); Hance, \x\ Journ. Bot. xx. 32 (1882) ; 

 Masters, in Journ. Linn. Soc. {Bot.) xviii. 519 (1881), xxii. 197, figs. 22-25 (1886), and in 

 Gard. Chron. xxi. 348, figs. 64-67 (1884), and xxv. 428, figs. 82, 83 (1886). 



Pinus Fortunei, Parlatore, in De CandoUe, Prod. xvi. 2, p. 430 (1868). 



Abies jezoensis, Lindley, in Paxton, Flower Garden, i. 42 (1850), and Gard. Chron. 1850, p. 311 

 (not Siebold and Zuccarini). 



Pseudotsuga jezoensis, Bertrand, in Ann. Sc. Nat. xx. 87 (1874). 



Abietia Fortunei, Kent, Veitch's Man. Conif. 485 (1900). 



A tree, attaining in China 80 ft. in height, with thick whitish bark, divided into 

 irregular plates, and somewhat like that of the cork oak. Young branchlets ^ slender, 

 with a scattered short wavy soft pubescence. Buds ovoid, rounded at the apex, with 

 numerous scales. Leaves on adult trees \ to \\ in. long, \ in. wide, linear ; rounded, 

 retuse or acute at the apex ; midrib prominent in a longitudinal depression on the 

 upper surface ; lower surface with twelve to sixteen lines of stomata on each side, 

 extending from the raised midrib nearly to the margin, which shows a very narrow 

 green depressed border. 



Leaves on young plants i in. long, \ in. broad, ending in an acuminate apex, 

 tipped by a spine-like point ; upper surface as in adult leaves ; lower surface with 

 a very narrow raised midrib, and two wide bands, each of sixteen stomatic lines, 

 extending to a linear groove just inside the margin. 



Cones on pubescent scaly stalks, nearly cylindrical, 4 to 5 in. long, 2\ in. wide, 

 bluish before ripening, brown tinged with purple when mature ; scales about \\ in. 

 wide, broadly oval with a short claw, concave internally from side to side, with the 

 upper part inflexed, and the margin slightly denticulate ; externally covered with 

 slight pubescence towards the base ; bract f in. long, with a linear claw, expanded 

 above into a denticulate lamina, ending in a sharp mucro. Seeds covering the whole 

 of the scale, except its lateral borders. 



This species is a native of the coast range of the province of Fukien in eastern 

 China, where it was seen by Maries^ in 1878, growing wild in quantity and associated 

 with Pinus Massoniana. It was discovered in 1844 by Fortune, who found a single 

 tree near the Kushan temple, which is situated in the mountains a few miles to the 

 eastward of Foochow at about 2000 ft. elevation. Fortune sent specimens and seed 

 to Messrs. Standish and Noble, who raised young plants, most of which appear to 

 have been distributed on the continent by Van Houtte. None of the original 



1 On the tree at Pallanza the branchlets in November are dark red, with merely traces of pubescence. 



2 Hortus Veitchii, 341 (1906). 



