96 ABIES, OR SILVER FIRS 
While the Webbiana has perhaps the most brilliant. 
silver-white colouring on the under-surface of its 
leaves of all Silver Firs, the A. Pindrow only shows. 
grey inconspicuous stomata bands. Again, while 
the shoots of the Webbiana have prominent Pulvini 
and deep grooves with reddish pubescence, those of 
the Pindrow are grey and glabrous in the first stage 
of their existence. 
KETELEERIA 
The KETELEERIA is so far no declared habitué of 
English soils. Experts do not deny it a future in 
such specially favoured climatic conditions as Cornwall 
or South Ireland afford. It hails from Central China 
and Formosa. 
The leaves bear a prima facie likeness to the 
Cephalotaxus, but whereas the latter is a member of 
the Taxacee family, and like them has its foliage 
mounted on little projections, the Keteleeria takes 
after the Abies tribe, and displays the circular disc 
when the leaf is pulled away from its smooth 
stem. 
It has a prominent midrib on both surfaces and is 
accredited with two stomatic bands on lower surface 
which are very faint and inconspicuous, to judge by 
some leaves sent from the Temperate House at 
Kew. , 
In cone character they break away from Abies 
dehiscent tradition and show persistent characteris- 
tics. The difference of the male flowers is alluded 
to in the table. The resin canals are as in Abies 
Pectinata, marginal and two in number. With the 
Keteleeria we should, we feel, like to become better 
acquainted, but its life-history reads as if there is but. 
a faint likelihood of any fulfilment of the wish. 
