OF THE GENUS PINUs. 583 
male flowers figured by Beissner are cylindric-oblong, each about 
2 cent. long. ‘The anther-scale is notched. The stalked cones 
are 10 to 11 cent. long, 4 to 5 cent. broad, oblong-obtuse, not 
tapering much either at the base or at the apex. The cone- 
scales increase in size gradually from the base to the middle of 
the cone, are slightly thickened at the tips, the upper exposed 
portions broadly ovate-acute, somewhat triangular, slightly 
pointed, and not reflexed. The seeds are wingless and edible. 
The whole cone has much the appearance of that of the 
N.W. American P. flewilis. 
**This Pine kas been met with in Chensi, the Tsinling Mountains, 
David! Szechuen, Farges! Yunnan, Delavay! Wilson! but, so 
far as is at present known, does not occur in Japan. 
“ Franchet suggests, and not without reason, that the cone 
figured as that of P. parviflora by Murray in ‘The Pines and 
Firs of Japan’ (1863), p. 12, fig. 18, may really have belonged to 
the species now known as P. Armandi.”—Mast. in Gard. Chron. 
1903, Jan. 31, p. 66, figs. 30, 31. 
13. Pinus Cempra, Linneus. 
There is little to be added to the description of this well- 
known species, a specimen of which is preserved in the Linnwan 
herbarium. It is interesting to compare the form of the coty- 
ledons and the primordial leaves with that of the adult leaves. 
In the cotyledons the section is triangular, two sides being 
much longer than the base, there is little or no hypoderm, and 
the resin-canals are near to the margins. The primordial leaf is 
three-sided, with the base of the triangle as long as the two other 
sides, and the resin-canals distinctly median. In the adult form 
the leaf-section is triangular with equal sides, but the dorsum is 
more convex than the sides and has no stomata. The section of 
the meristele is circular and the resin-canals are median. The 
cells of the endoderm number about 20. The cells of the meso- 
phyll are only slightly or not plicated (see Pl. 20. fig. 2). 
The herbaceous shoots are greenish, puberulous, or in native 
Specimens even shaggy, with fawn-coloured huirs, and clothed to 
the base with leaf-fascicles. 
The anthers are muticous and their colour, like that of the 
perulz, is variable, ranging from whitish to reddish violet. 
In the young cones the bracts are almost quite distinet from 
the scale, although a single fibro-vascular bundle supplies both 
