. The cultivated evergreens; a handbook of the coniferous and most important broad-leaved evergreens planted for ornament in the United States and Canada. Evergreens; Conifers. ENUMERATION OF CONIFERS 247 upright, with persistent woody scales; bracts inclosed, about half as long as the scales; wings of seeds as long as the scales; cotyledons 2, hypogean (remaining below ground). (Named in honor of Jean Baptiste Keteleer, a French nurseryman, born in Belgium.)—Two or possibly 3 or 4 species in China and Formosa. A. Young branchlets orange-red, glabrous: cone-scales suborbicular, slightly inflex
. The cultivated evergreens; a handbook of the coniferous and most important broad-leaved evergreens planted for ornament in the United States and Canada. Evergreens; Conifers. ENUMERATION OF CONIFERS 247 upright, with persistent woody scales; bracts inclosed, about half as long as the scales; wings of seeds as long as the scales; cotyledons 2, hypogean (remaining below ground). (Named in honor of Jean Baptiste Keteleer, a French nurseryman, born in Belgium.)—Two or possibly 3 or 4 species in China and Formosa. A. Young branchlets orange-red, glabrous: cone-scales suborbicular, slightly inflexed at apex I. K. Fortunei A.*.. Young branchlets yellowish-gray, puberulous or sometimes gla- brous: cone-scales ovate, recurved at apex 2. K. Davidiana 1. K. Fortunei, Carr. (Abies Fortunei, Murr. Pseudotsuga jczocnsis, Bertrand. Pin us Fortunei, Pari. Ahietia Fortunei, Kent). Tall tree to 100 feet; branchlets glabrous, orange-red: leaves linear, rigid, mucronate or spiny-pointed, obtusish on old trees, flat, with the midrib prominent on both sides, glossy dark green above, paler below, 1-13^^ inches long: cones ovoid or cylindric-ovoid, 3-7 inches long; scales suborbicular, purple while young, later reddish-brown. Southeastern China. — Intro- duced to Europe about 1845. Little known in this country and probably hardy only in California and the Southern States. Handsome pyramidal tree similar to a fir. 2. , Beiss. {Abies Davidiana, Franch. Pseudotsuga Davidiana, Bertrand). Fig. 64. Tall tree to 120 feet; young branchlets puberidous, rarely glabrous: leaves linear, rounded or notched at the apex, midrib raised on both sides, glossy green above, paler below, \-\}/2 inches long: cones cylindric-oblong, 6-8 inches long, with orbicular- ovate scales, erose at the margin and recurved at the apex. Western China and Formosa.— Introduced by E. H. Wilson in 1900 to Great Britain and in 1907 to the Arnold Arboretum. This species is probably somewhat har-. 64. Keteleeria
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