ABIES ORIENTALIS. 
Identification.—SAPINUS, Bellonius, De Arbor. Conif. Rejin., p. 27 (1553). 
ELATE TRAPEZUNTICA, Tourn. Voy., ii. p. 104 (1717). 
ABIES ORIENTALIS, folio brevi et tetragono frudlu minimo et deorfum inflexo; Tournefort, Coroll. (ed. 3), p. 41 (1719). 
PINUS ORIENTALIS, Linnaeus, Spec., p. 1421 (1753); Bieberftein, FI. Taur. Cancas., iii. p. 624 (1819); Lambert, Gemis 
Pinus (ed. 2), i. p. 49 (1837-38); Steven, Bull. Soc. Nat. Mofc., p. 48 (1838); Antoine, Conif., p. 89 (1840-46); End- 
licher, Syn. Conif., p. 116 (1847). 
ABIES ORIENTALIS, Poiret, Diet., vi. p. 518 (1804); Loudon, Encycl. of Trees, p. 1029 (1842); Jaubert and Spach, Plant. 
Orient., i. p. 30 (1842); Lindley and Gordon, in Journ. Hort. Soc., v. p. 212 (1850); Knight, Syn. Conif., p. 36 (1850); 
Lawfon, Abietinecc, p. 31'(1851); Gordon, Pinetum, p. 8 (1858). 
PICE A ORIENTALIS, Carriere, TraitC Gdn. des Conif., p. 244 (1855). 
Engravings. — Cone and Leaves. —Lambert, Gemis Pinus {loc. cit.), t. 31, fig. A ( exclus. reliq. icon.); Antoine, Conif. {loc. cit.), t. 35, fig. 1; 
Loudon, Encycl. of Trees,{loc. cit.), figs. 1924, 1925 ; Jaubert and Spach {loc. cit.), t. 14. 
Specific Characters .—Abies ramulis ftribtis, foliis fubtetragonis obtufis, ffrobilis nutantibus fubcylin- 
dricis elongato pyriformibus, fquamis rhombeo-ovatis apice rotundatis, brabteis fubrotundatis apice truncatis 
marginibus fortiter laciniatis, femimbus alis fat expands. 
Habitat circa Trapezuntum et in fummis Imeritiae montibus in Mingrelia fuperiore, necnon inter 
Guriel et Montes Adfcharienfes. 
A lofty tree of the fize and appearance of the Common Spruce. The leaves crowded very clofely 
round the branchlets, and adpreffed to them [fig. 1]. The bark brown, pale-fawn coloured on the younger 
Fig. 1. 
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Outer face or back. 
branchlets, which are thickly fpirally fet with pulvini all round. (See fig. 2, which is a reprefentation of 
the branchlets magnified three times.) At the bafe of each branchlet there is a circlet of dark brown 
f ] A broadly 
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