upper margin convex, undulate or entire ; lateral margins with two short denticulate wings; base curving but not auricled on each side of the oblong claw. Bracts: claw oblong, ⅛ inch wide, extending ¾ the length of the scale ; lamina lozenge-shaped, ¼ inch wide, denticulate, ending in a triangular mucro, exserted and reflexed over the edge of the scale next below. Seed-wing about twice as long as the seed ; seed with wing about 1 inch long.
Seedling ;? caulicle tapering upwards, reddish brown, erect, stout. Cotyledons, five or six, acute not mucronate, about 1¼ inch long; upper surface dotted irregularly with stomata and grooved in the middle line. Primary leaves half the length of the cotyledons, not mucronate ; lower surface with stomata.
Var. Apollinis, Beissner, Nadelholzkunde, 440 (1891).
Abies Apollinis, Link, Linnaea, xv. 528 (1841).
This variety differs from the type in the arrangement and shape of the leaves. On lateral branchlets the radial arrangement is imperfect, most of the leaves standing crowded on the upper side of the branchlet, with their apices directed upwards, those in the middle line straight and vertical, those on the sides curved and bending upwards ; on the lower side of the branchlet a few leaves are directed downwards and forwards. Leaves thicker and broader than in the type, about 1} inch long by yp to yy inch broad, ending in a short acute point, bevelled off from behind ; upper surface with a continuous median groove and two to three short lines of stomata near the tip; lower surface with two bands of stomata, each of ten lines.
The cones do not differ in any essential characters from those of the type; and the differences noted by Murray? in the broader bract and expanded wing of the seed are trifling and inconstant.
Halácsy considers Abies Reginæ Amaliæ and Abies panachaiaca to be mere synonyms of Abies cephalonica; and only allows the variety Apollinis, distinguished, according to him, by its acute leaves, those in the type ending in an acuminate or very sharp spine-like point. According to other authorities, A. Reginæ Amaliæ is more akin to var. Apollinis than to the type. In all probability there is a series of intermediate forms connecting the type and var. Apolllinis.'
Distribution
According to Halácsy this species occurs in the sub-alpine region of almost all the higher mountains of Greece, between 2700 and 5700 feet elevation. The type is met with in the island of Cephalonia on Mount Enos; and on the mainland— in Doris on Mount Kiona, in Attica on Mount Parnes, and in Arcadia on
1 Masters, in MS., who states that in var. Apollinis the cotyledons are seven in number, sub-acute at the apex, and
about 1 inch long ; primary leaves shorter and more pointed than the cotyledons.
2 Proc. Roy. Hort. Soc. iii. 141 (1863).
3 Guinier and Maire, in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, lv. 187, figs. 2 and 3 (1908), describe a variety, with leaves like those of A. cilicica, which grows on Mount Pindus in Thessaly.
