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The Timber is extremely soft, of a white colour, and gene- 

 rally free from knots, but very perishable. 



Section II. TSXJGA, or those kinds with flat leaves, 



MOSTLY GLAUCOUS BELOW, AND MORE OR LESS TWO-ROWED, 

 LIKE THE HEMLOCK SPRUCE. 



No. 14. Abies Brunoniana, Lindley, the Indian Hemlock 



Spruce. 

 Syn. Abies dumosa, Loudon. 



„ „ decidua, Wallich. 



„ „ cedroides, Griffith. 



„ Pinus dumosa, Lambert. 



„ „ decidua, Wallich. 



,, „ Brunoniana, Endlicher. 



„ Tsuga Brunoniana, Carrilre. 



„ Picea Brunoniana, Spach. 

 Leaves solitary, somewhat in two rows, or scattered along 

 the branches, flat, linear, spreading, obtuse or slightly pointed, 

 minutely toothed towards the apex, reflexed on the margins, and 

 about one inch long, covered below with a milk-white meali- 

 ness, and of a bright glossy green above, very easily detached 

 by wind or pressure, and almost deciduous in winter. Branches 

 numerous, slender, and pendent. Cones terminal, an inch long, 

 solitary, without foot-stalks, bluntly oval, pale brown, and fur- 

 nished at the base with several small oval, opposite, blunt 

 scales. Scales persistent, loosely imbricated, rounded, and 

 smooth on the margins. Seeds small, a little compressed, and 

 angular; wings obtuse, and shorter than the scales. 



A fine tree, growing from 70 to 80 feet high, with spreading 

 branches and pendulous brittle branchlets, found in Bhotan 

 proper, occurring from 6500 to 9500 feet of elevation ; a large, 

 solitary tree. Dr. Grifiith measured one specimen 27 feet in 

 girth, at a height of five feet from the ground. Dr. Hooker 

 found it in Sikkim, forming a narrow belt at an elevation of 

 from 9000 to 10,000 feet, on the south flank of Kunchinjinga, 



