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t 10. A. dumo'sa Lamb. The bushy alpine Spruce Fir.

Synonymes. Plnus dumbsa Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., 1. t. 46.; A' bies BrunomT/wdi Lindl. in Penn. Cyc.,No. 9.; P. decfdua Wall. MS .; P. Brunorcmwrt: Wall. Plant. As. Rar., 3. p. 24. t. 247.

Engravings. Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., 1. t. 46.; Wall. Plant. As. Rar. 3. t. 247. j and our figs. 2233. and 2234.Spec. Char., §c. Leaves solitary, linear, obtuse, mostly on one side of the branches ; glaucous be-neath, denticulated. Cones ovate, terminal, solitary : bracteoles wedge-shaped, plicate, emargi-nate, glabrous. {Lamb. Pin.) Leaves fin. to 1 in. long. Cones, scales, and seeds scarcelydifferent from those of A. canadensis. A native of Nepal, not yet introduced.

Description. A dense and verybushy tree, 70 ft. or 80 ft. high, withthe appearance of J'bies canaden-sis. Branches numerous, spreading,twiggy, covered with an ash-co-loured brownish bark. Leaves soli-tary, linear, obtuse, 2-rowed, some-what pectinate, more crowded thanin A. canadensis; from 5 lines to 1 in.long, 1 line broad; green above, shin-ing and glaucous beneath ; deflexedon the margin, obsoletely denticulatetowards the apex. Cones terminal,solitary, ovate, mucronate, smooth,sessile, 1 in. long j scales roundish,somewhat membranaceous, brown-ish, curled and torn'on the margin :bracteoles very short, somewhatmembranaceous, roundish, wedge-shaped, slightly plaited, nearly fan-shaped, emarginatej margins un-equal, smooth. Seeds small, cuneate,ferruginous, furnished with an ob.long, obtuse, pale, shining, mem-branaceous wing. {Lamb., Wall.,

2233 and Penny Cyc.') Dr. WaJlich ob-

serves that the leaves of this fir aremealy beneath, and that they are soextremely deciduous, that the slightest shake of the branch is sufficient to detach them. The natives,who call the tree Tangshing, do not use the wood, as they find it liable to warp. It was discovered byCaptain Webb, and named Brunonmim by Dr. Wallich, in honour of Mr. Brown ; the specific nameof dumbsa refers to the bushy habit of the tree. This species is a native of Nepal and Bhotan. Dr.Wallich’s collectors gathered it on the lofty peak of Gossainthan. According to Dr. Royle, it israre, and was only seen by him on the more northern parts of the hills. Mr. Lambert justly observesthat this species is very nearly allied to the hemlock spruce; but he adds that it differs from it, inhaving longer and more crowded leaves, with their margins deflected. The cones are larger, withtheir scales wavy, and somewhat erose at the edges, and the bracteas not fringed at the margins. Asthere can be little doubt of its being quite hardy in England, it is much to be desired that it shouldbe introduced.

1 II. A. cfpiialc/mca. The Cephalonian Silver Spruce Fir.

Synonymes. Koukounaria, and also Elatos, in Cephalonia; A. faxifblia Mori.', A. luscombeanaHort. ; the Mount Enos Fir.

Engravings. Our Jigs. 2235. and 2236., from living specimens received from Hampton Lodge, Lus-combe, and Dropmore.

Spec. Char. Cones, ?. Leaves subulate, flat; dark green above, and silverybeneath ; tapering from the base to the summit, which terminates in a sharpspine. Petioles very short, dilated lengthwise at the point of their attach-ment to the branches; the dilated part of a much lighter green than the restof the leaf. A tree, in its native country (Cephalonia), upwards of 60 ft. high,with a trunk 9 ft. or 10 ft. in circumference, and numerous side branches,which, when young, give it the general appearance of an araucaria. Intro-duced in 1824.

Description. General Charles James Napier, who, when governor ofCephalonia, paid great attention to this tree, and first sent seeds of it toEngland, informs us that the largest specimens which he saw of it in Cepha-lonia were 60 ft. high and upwards ; and that the side branches, when the treeis not crow'ded by others, are very numerous, and spread out to a greatdistance, so as to form a very broad tree in proportion to its height. Theleaves, on plants raised in England, are equally and thickly distributed over thebranches, and stand out nearly at right angles on every side. They are of afine shining dark green above, and have two rather obscure silvery lines, sepa-rated by the midrib, beneath. They differ from those of all other species ofA'bies and Picea, in terminating in a long, brown, sharp, prickle, and in havingthe footstalks (which are so short that the leaves are almost sessile) dilatedlengthwise in the direction of the branches; the dilated part being of a much

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