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32. PSEUDOLARIX.— Abietis sp. Lindl. in Penny Cycl. 

 i. 34. Genus Psendolarix, Gord. Pin. 292 ; Carr. Conif. ed. 2, 363 ; 

 Masters, Contrib. to Hist, of certain Species of Conif. in Linn. Soc. 

 Journ. xxii. 208 ; Henk. and Hochst. Nadelh. 139 ; Pari, in DC. 

 Prodr. 412 (Pini sect.) ; C. Koch, Dendr. 265 (sub-genus) ; Eichl. 

 in Engl, and Prantl, Natiirl. Pflf. ii. s. 77 ; Beissn. Nadelli. 309 ; 

 H. Mayr, Monographie der Abietineen des Japanischen Reiches, 

 1890. 



Flowers monoecious. 



Cones oblong, pendent, brittle, and, like the head of the common 

 Artichoke, covered with divergent scales. 



Scales very deciduous, extended at the points, heart-shaped at the 

 base, and enclosing at the bottom two soft-coated seeds. 



Seeds irregularly^ shaped, witli a soft, thin, whitish, skin-like 

 covering, more or less enclosed by the wing, but free, and full of 

 turpentine. 



Win^s ovate-lanceolate on the outer side, but quite straight on the 

 inner one, and entirely covering the inner face of the scale. 



Leaves deciduous, soft, linear, flat, and collected in bundles on the 

 adult plants, but scattered singly along the young shoots, and very 

 long on the young plants. 



Cotyledons from five to seven in number. 



Xame derived from pSf'i'do, false, and Jcrkr^ the Larch — the false 

 or Chinese Larch. 



A noble, hardy tree found by Mr. Fortune in the central and 

 north-east provinces of China, and very distinct from the European 

 Larches, in the cones having deciduous scales with divergent points 

 (G. Gordon, " The Pinetum," 1875). 



P. Fortunei, Gord. Pinet. 292. Larix conifera, &c., Ka?mpf. 

 Amcen. Exot. 883. L. Kiemjrferi, Fortune. Finus Kiempferi, Lamb. 

 Pin. ed. 3, 7. Abies Keemjyferi, Lindl. in Penny Cj'cl. i. 34. 



Hohltat. — The mountains of !N"orth-east China, in the province of 

 Che-Kiang, at an elevation of about 1,000 metres. 



Introduced into Europe in 1846 by Robert Fortune. Dr. H. Mayr 

 says in his " Monographie der Abietineen des Japanischen Reiches," 

 1890, p. 64: ' • IvEempf er"s Larch is without doubt our Jeptolepis ; 

 therefore it would be better to change the name Larix Kcempferi, and 

 that derived therefrom, Fseudolarix Ksempjferi, to another name, 

 which would obviate all mistake." Further on, at page 99, he says : 

 " To that mentioned by Kaempfer in 1712 (Larix conif era), Lambert 

 has, in his ' Pinetum,' 1832, given the specific name Keerapferi. The 

 description, the locality in which K^empfer had collected it, the name 

 lie gave the plant {Kara-mafzu-rnonu), leave no doubt that he meant 

 Itptohjjis. Fortune has identified the Larch he discovered in 1845 

 with that of Ktempfer's, and also given it the specific name Ksempferi. 

 But to prevent all errors, I would like to propose to call it ' Fseudolarix 



