P. MORINDOIDES AND BREWERIANA 123 
Group II.—Omorica, BREWERIANA (SHOOTS 
PUBESCENT) 
The BREWERIANA, which shows a fastigiate-looking 
crop of leaves, is stillrarer. Probably at this moment 
the length of all the trees of this species in cultivation 
with us here would not reach higher than the length 
of a long man, 6 ft. high in his stockings. If ever the 
day dawns when either the Morindoides or Breweriana 
has learnt to flourish in our country, there will not 
be, we apprehend, much difficulty in dealing with 
their identities. 
All these Weeping Spruces exhibit a certain out- 
ward and visible resemblance. While the Smithiana 
(or Morinda) and the Shrenkiana have four-angled 
leaves, the Himalayan Morindoides and the American- 
Breweriana sport flat leaves, an emphatic difference 
easily discerned. 
As between the Morindoides (or Spinulosa) and the 
Breweriana, there exist these marked differences. 
The branchlets of the Morindoides are glabrous and 
the branchlets of the Breweriana pubescent. Again, 
the cones of the Morindoides are rather larger at the 
base than they are at the top, and the margin of their 
cone scales are frayed ; while those of the Breweriana 
are narrow at both extremities, especially so at their 
very marked tapering base. The margins of their 
cone scales also differ, and are rounder in shape and 
entire on margin. 
