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distinguished from A. orientalis Town, P. orientalis Lamb. Pin., t. 39., a 

 nearly related species from Armenia and the western parts of Georgia, by 

 its more compressed and slenderer leaves, and by its larger cones with 

 broader scales. Cones of this species were first sent to the Earl of Hope- 

 toun, by Dr. Govan of Cupar, in 1818; who had received them from his 

 son in the East Indies, under the name of khutrow ; and from these seeds 

 six plants were raised the same year. After having been kept in pots for 

 two years, two of them were planted in the arboretum at Hopetoun House, 

 one was sent to the Horticultural Society of London, and the remainder to 

 the Botanic and Experimental Gardens at Edinburgh. We have already 

 mentioned that the larger of the two at Hopetoun House was 17 ft. 6 in. in 

 June, 1837; the diameter of the trunk, at 1 ft. from the ground, 2 ft. 2 in.; 

 and of the space covered by the branches, 1 1 ft. The branches, Mr. Smith 

 informs us, are a little pendulous ; and the leading shoot, in 1836, was 

 about 18 in. long. Some scions from the side branches of this tree have 

 been grafted, in the herbaceous manner, on the common spruce, at the 

 height of 4 ft. or 5 ft. from the ground, allowing three or four tiers of branches 

 of the spruce to remain ; and the contrast between these branches and 

 those of the Himalayan spruce is very striking. Several plants have been 

 raised from the trees at Hopetoun House by cuttings, which form as hand- 

 some young trees as those raised from seed. Cones and seeds have since 

 been received by different persons ; and there are several in Lawson's museum, 

 Edinburgh. These cones, it is observed, are in size and shape somewhat 

 resembling those of A. excelsa, but differ in their scales, which are almost 

 round and entire on the margin ; while those of the Norway spruce are of a 

 rhomboidal shape, and rugged or notched on the outer extremity. The seeds 

 and wings are also very similar. (Lawson's Manual, p. 370.) There can 

 be little or no doubt, but that this tree is as hardy in the climate of Britain 

 as the common spruce; and, as it is unquestionably more ornamental, it 

 well deserves a place in every collection. It is readily propagated by cut- 

 tings ; and, as the trees in this country will probably in a short time pro- 

 duce cones, plants, if there should be an extensive demand for them, will 

 soon be nearly as cheap as those of the common spruce fir. In the mean 

 time, the price, in the London nurseries, is 21s. each. A great many plants 

 of this species have been raised in Knight's Exotic Nursery, from seeds 

 received from the Himalayas, and extensively distributed under the name of 

 P. Pindrow. Some confusion in the description of this species, in the Penny 

 Cyclopcedia and in Lawson's Manual, has resulted from the cones in Dr. 

 Wallich's figure being placed upright, which, if they had been actually so, 

 would have constituted it a Picea; and, accordingly, Dr. Lindley calls it the 

 Indian silver fir. (See Professor Don, in Lambert's third volume, t. 88.) 

 1 6. A. (? e.) orientals Tourn. The Oriental Spruce Fir. 



Identification. Tourn. Cor., 41. ; Du Ham. Arb., 1. p. 4. 



Synonyme. Pinus orientalis Lamb. Pin., ed. 2 , 1. t. 39., Lin. Sp. PI., 1421., Syst., cd. Reich., 4. 

 ' p. 178.. Vilman. Sp. PI., 5. p. 346. 

 Engraving. Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., 1. t. 39. 



Spec. Char., %c. Leaves solitary, tetragonal. Cones ovate-cylindrical; scales rhomboid. {Lamb. 



Pin.) Mr. Lambert states that he inserts this species on the authority of Tournefort, who says 



( V(n/. du Lnallt, p. 288.) that he found it growing in the vicinity of Trcbisonde, where it is known 



by trio name of elate. Its trunk and branches he states to be about the size of those of /'icea 



,t.. The leaves are 4 or 5 lines in length, and not more than half a line in breadth ; their 



bining greenish brown. The cones are described as being nearly cylindrical, about 



2j, in. long, and 8 OTfl lines In diameter ; pointed, and composed of soft, thin, rounded scales, which 



minute and resinous seeds. The above description was written in 1804, before Mr. 



LMBberl had Ben a fpedmen Of A. orientalis, either recent or dried, from a drawing made of the 



plant in the tune of 1 ournelort. Previously to the publication of his second edition, Mr. Lambert 



,i i [men from Sir Gore Ousely, collected by that gentleman in the vicinity of Teflis ; 



U'.ui examining which, be States the specific distinctions Of A. orientalis to be: "short quadran- 



Mlai ' • and imbneately arranged On the branches; and oblong elliptical cones, four 



1 | ' of A. excelsa, With rhomboidal entire scales. The leaves are twice or 



rter than those of A. excelsa, and are distinctly mucronulate, not pointless, as repre- 



flgure. The scales of the cone finally become emarginate, or slightly 



■\r Lambert's figure being, according to his own account, very imperfect, we have 



it. We have already mentioned, under A. alba, the.opinion of Loiseleur Deslong- 



ftet comparing the drawings made for Tournefort with the speci- 



of A. alba brought from America by Michaux), that A. orientalis is only a variety of that 



' Du Ham., v. p. 291.] We think it only a variety of A. excelsa. 



