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Hooker, it forms an inelegant, sprawling, branched tree, with 

 the branches standing out awkwardly, and often drooping 

 suddenly. 



This species occurs very common in Bhotan, Sikkim, and in 

 the valleys of Eastern Nepal, close up to the snow-line, at 

 from 9000 to 12,000 feet of elevation, but is never found in 

 the sub-Himalayas, and rarely occurs gregarious, or in clumps- 

 The leaves, which redden and fall in November, are in more 

 scattered fascicles than those of the Common Larch, and 

 brighter green when young ; cones large, reddish-purple ; when 

 young, erect, and abounding in tears of white resin. 



It forms an inelegant thinly -branched tree, growing only 30 

 or 40 feet high, and called " Sah" by the Bhotiyas. 



The timber is small, but splits weU, and is used for flooring. 



It was first discovered by Dr. Hooker, and named in com- 

 pliment to the late Dr. Griffith. 



No. i. Laeix Kamtschatica, Carrihre, the Kamtschatka 



Larch. 



Syn. Pinus Kamtschatica, Endlicher. 

 „ Abies Kamtschatica, Ruprecht. 

 „ „ Sibirica, Fischer, not Ledebour. 

 „ „ Fischerii, Ledebour. 



This kind resembles Larix Dahurica, but has much larger 

 cones, with the scales half an inch broad, and very differently 

 shaped. It has been much confounded by Russian writers 

 with Larix Dahurica, but may at once be distinguished from 

 that kind by its much larger cones, which are one inch and a 

 half long and one inch broad, and on long foot-stalks. 



It is found in Kamtschatka, at St. Paul's and St. Peter's, 

 varying very much in stature and appearance, according to 

 soil and elevation, but mostly a tolerable-sized tree. 



