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260. Abies Fortunei, Murr. Pines and Firs of Jap. 1863, 49. Abies 

 jezoensis, Lindl. in Paxt. Flow. Gard. 1850, 43. Picea Fortunei^ 

 Murr. Proc. Hort. Soc. 1862, 421. Pseudotsuga jezoensis, Bertrand in 

 Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 5, xx. 87 (Bot.). Pinus Fortunei, Pari, in DC. 

 Prodr. xvi. 2, 430. Picea jezoeasis, Carr. Conif. ed. 1, 255 (in part, 

 excl. syn.). 



Habitat. — South-eastern China, with Foo-chow-foo. Abundant on 

 the mountains to the north of Foo-chow, intermixed with Pinus 

 Massoniana. 



Introduced by Mr. Ptobert Fortune in 184G. 



Hardiness doubtful. 



It is a singular fact that up to this time but one tree of this kind is 

 known in its (presumed) native country — that originally met with by 

 Fortune in the vicinity of a temple at Foo-chow-foo, in China. 



Fortune speaks of it a magnificent tree with the habit of a Cedar 

 of Lebanon, with beautiful erect purple cones. No other tree of this 

 species, is, as we have said, known, except those raised from Fortune's 

 seeds. From this circumstance, and the fact of its situation in the 

 grounds of a temple, it is probable that the tree was introduced to Foo- 

 chow-foo, and that its native habitat will sooner or later be discovered. 

 Meanwhile it is satisfactory to know that Messrs. Rovelli, of Pal- 

 lanza. North Italy, have raised sufficient plants from seed to obviate 

 the risk of exterm.ination of so remarkable a tree. The bark of the 

 trunk is of a particularly thick corky character, quite unlike that of 

 any other Conifer that we can recall, and much more like that of a 

 Cork Oak (M. T. M. in Gardeners Chronicle, March 1884, p. 348). 



38. ABIES, Link.— Endl. Conif. 89. Genus Abies, Link in 

 Linnsea, xv. 526 ; Carr. Conif. 195. Picea, Don in Loud. Arb. Brit. iv. 

 2329. Abies, sect. Pence and Picea, Spach, Hist, des Yeg. Phan. 

 xi. 414 ; Pari, in DC. Prodr. xvi. 2, 418 ; Engelm. Bot. Calif, 

 ii. 117 ; Forb. Pin. Wob. t. 37-44; Fl. des Serres, t. 1437 ; Ledeb. 

 Ic. Fl. Ross. t. 500 ; Nutt. N. Amer. Sylv. iii. t. 117-119 ; Newb. 

 Bot. Will. Exp. t. 6 ; C. Koch, Dendr. ii. 208 (Picea, Don) ; Eichler 

 in Engl, and Prantl, Natiirl. Pflf. ii. 81 ; Willk. Forstl. Fl. 106. 



Flowers monoecious ; the male catkins axillary or terminal ; the 

 female ones solitary, on very short branchlets, and cylindrical. 



Cones erect, cylindrical, or nearly so, axillary, and growing on 

 the upper side of the branches. 



Scales deciduous, or falling off when ripe from the axil of the 

 cone, which remains persistent on the branches. 



Bracts dorsal, and either enclosed by or projecting beyond the 

 scales. 



Seeds somewhat triangular, full of turpentine, two mider each 

 scale, covered with a soft tegument, and furnished with ample per- 

 sistent, membranaceous wings, more or less wedge-shaped. 



