LXXVII. CONI’FERZ: PI’CEA. 1051 
Flowers and cones unknown. Found on the mountains of Mexico, at an ele- 
vation of 8000 or 9000 feet. A low tree, from 18 ft, to 20 ft. high; not yet 
introduced. 
E. Natives of Nepal. 
2 14. P. Wessrava. Webb's purple-coned Silver Fir. 
Sy Pinus Webbia: Wall. in Litt., Lamb. Pin. ed. 2. 2. t.44.; P. spectabilis Lamb, 
‘Monog. 2. p.3. t.2.; A’bies Webbiana Lindl, in Penn, Cyc. No.7., Royle I ee Chilvew cand 
the Conum, or purple-coned fir, i the Himalayas. z ENE TEE ba 
Engravings. Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., t. 44.5 Monog., 2. t. 2.; and our jigs. 1968. and 1969. 
Spec. Char, §c. Leaves 2-rowed, linear, flat, obtusely emarginate, silvery 
beneath. Cones cylindrical ; scales kidney-shaped, roundish; bracteoles 
oblong, apiculate. (D. Don.) Buds round, pointless, thickly covered with 
a yellow resin, by which alone the tree may be readily distinguished from 
every other species of Picea. Cones from 62 in. to 7in. long, and above 
2in. broad. Leaves of young 
plants, in the Horticultural 
Society’s Garden, from 1} in. 
LEP 
<< C2 
to2lin.long. Scale above 1 in. Sa 
Jong, and 114 in. broad. Seeds, a ae ae. 
with the wing, 3in. long; SS 6 
wing & in. broad in the widest Sea, 
ee 
part. Seeds 3, in. long, and 
-4;in. broad. In general they 
are smaller, but longer, and 
with a sharper point, than 
those of the common silver 
fir; and, like the seeds of the 
common silver fir, they are 
of a brownish purple colour. 
1968. P. Webbiina. 
Cotyledons, ?. A large, hand- 
some, pyramidal tree. Nepal, 
on the Alps of Gossainthan. 
Height 80 ft. to 90 ft., with a 
trunk from 3ft. to 4ft. in 
diameter near the base. In- 
troduced in 1822. Cones 
purple, in one or two in- 
stances produced in England. 
Branches numerous, spread- 
ing horizontally, much divided ; 
densely clothed with leaves dis- 
posed in whorls ; covered with 
a pale, ash-coloured, rough, 
scaly bark ; bent upwards at 
