226 PICBA, OR 



No. 23. PiCEA Veitchii, Hort, Veitch's Silver Fir. 

 Syn. Abies Veitchii, Lindley. 

 „ Pinus selenolepis, Parlatore. 

 Leaves linear. Eat, and all thickly arranged in an incurved 

 manner on the upper side of the branchlets ; obtuse or emar- 

 ginate at the points, keeled, glaucous, concave, and streaked 

 with white on the under side, and varying from six to twelve 

 lines long, and three quarters of a line broad. Branches rather 

 stout, with the cones from two and a quarter to two and a half 

 inches long, and two and three quarter inches in circumference ; 

 somewhat cylindrical, blunt pointed, and erect on the upper 

 side of the branches. Scales rounded on the upper part, flattened 

 and half-moon shaped, with a foot-stalk below. Bracteas 

 hidden, but even in length vnth the scales, wedge-shaped, and 

 terminating in a little point or prickle. Seeds testaceous, two 

 lines long, angular, crested, and with short acinaciform wings, 

 having a very narrow curved crest at the base. 



A fine tree, growing from 120 to 140 feet high, found on the 

 sacred Mountain Fusi-Yama, in the province of Surunga, on 

 the Island of Nippon, in Japan. 



It looks Hkes a small-coned Silver Fir, but is essentially dif- 

 ferent from that or any other Silver Fir, and has been named 

 after Mr. J. G. Veitch, a pla-nt collector in Japan, who sent seeds 

 of it to England in 1861. 



No. 24. PiCEA Webbiana, Loudon, Capt. Webb's Indian Fu-. 

 Syn. Abies Webbiana, Lindley. 

 „ spectabilis, Spach. 

 „ „ densa, Orifith. 

 „ „ Chilrowensis, Hmi:. 

 „ Pinus striata, Hamilton. 

 „ „ spectabilis, Lambert. 

 „ 5, tinctoria, Wallich. 

 „ „ Webbiana, Wallich. 

 Leaves solitary, at first scattered all round the shoots, but 

 finally more or less arranged in two rows laterally, from one 



