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ARBORETUM AND FltUTICETUM. 



PART III. 



was, in 1837, 1 ft. high. The finest plants of this species in the neighbour- 

 hood of London are at the Hendon Rectory, where, in October, 1837, one 

 was 8 ft. high, and the other 1 ft. 8 in., both in pots. Price of plants, in the 

 London nurseries, three guineas each. 



8. P. WwbIA^NA Wall. Webb's purple-coned Silver Fir. 



Pinus WebbiftjM Wall, in Litt., Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., 2. t. 44. ; P. spectabilis Lamb 

 p. 3. t. 2. ; A'bies Webbidna Lindl. in Penn. Cyc, No. 7., Royle Iliust. • Chilrow' 



and our figs. 2251. and 2252. 



Synonym 

 Monag._ 



and the Oonum, or purple-coned fir, in the Himalayas 

 Engravings. Lamb. Pin., ed. '.'., t. 44. ; ftlonog., 2. t. 2. 



Spec. Char.) $c. Leaves 2- 



rowed, linear, flat, obtusely 



emarginate, silvery beneath. 



Cones cylindrical ; scales 



kidney-shaped, roundish ; 



bracteoles oblong, apiculate. 

 • (£). 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 67 in. to 7 in. 



long, and above 2 in. broad. 



Leaves of young plants, in 



the Horticultural Society's 



Garden, from \\ in. to 2\ in. 



long. Scale above 1 in. 



long, and \\ in. broad. 



Seeds, with the wing, £ in. 



long ; wing § in. broad in 



the widest part. Seeds 



■fz in. long, and J» ff 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 brown- 

 ish purple colour. Cotyle- 

 dons,?. A tree, a native of 



Nepal, in which country it 



was discovered by Captain 



W. S. Webb. Introduced 



into England by Dr. Wal- 



lich, in 1822. 



Description, fyc. A large, 

 handsome, pyramidal tree, from 

 80 ft. to 00 ft. high, with a trunk 

 from 3 ft. to 4 ft. in diameter 

 near the base. Branches nu- 

 merous, spreading horizon- 

 tally, much divided, densely 

 clothed with leaves, disposed 

 in whorls, covered with a pale 



loured, rough, sealy baik ; bent upwards at the apex. Wood compact, 



whitish rose-colour. Leaves linear, solitary, crowded, 2-rowed, spreading, 



coriaceous, imOOth, shining; l^in. to 2 in. long, 2 lines broad; very dark 



■bow ; canaliculate, somewhat deflexed on the margin, quite entire j 



