Agathis.) CXLIV. CONIFER. (J. D. Hooker.) 651 
cylindrie-oblong. Fem. cone 1-2 in. diam., globose or ovoid; scales broadly cuneate, 
2 in. across. Seeds } in. long, including the falcate decurved obtuse wing.— 
Dammar. 
8. PINUS, Linz. 
Evergreen moneecious trees. Leaves dimorphic, primary consisting of 
small membranous scales, secondary linear in clusters of 2, 3, or 5 in the 
axils of the primary; clusters girt at the base by a sheath of hyaline scales. 
Male fl. spicate ; staminal column ovoid oblong or cylindric; anthers in 
many series, shortly stipitate; cells 2; connective produced at the tip. Fem. 
cones globose or ovoid, bracts spirally imbricate; ovuliferous scale much larger 
than the bracts ; ovules 2, at the base ofthe scale, reflexed. Ripe cone ovoid 
or oblong, bracts obsolete or small ; scales persistent, formed of the enlarged 
thickened usually woody ovuliferous scales the tips of which are often 
Square and with a boss. Seeds 2, reversed, usually winged, the wing 
formed by the adhesion of the hard testa to a thin separable layer of the 
scale; cotyledons 2 or more.—Species 70, confined to the Northern Hemi- 
sphere, very rare in its tropics. 
Pinus Royleana, Jameson in Journ. Hort. Soc. Lond. ix. 52, with a woodcut 
(Parlatore in DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 390), a species which on the authority of Reyle is 
a native of the Nepal Himalaya, alt. 8-10,000 ft., is referred by Gordon (Pinetum 
Ed. 2, 170) to P. mitis of N. America, and if it came from Nepal was no doubt from 
the Residency Garden. P. nepalensis, Royle (P. Latteri, Madden mss.), is P. 
Pinaster, also no doubt from the Resideney Garden. P. nepalensis, Forbes, Pinet. 
Woburn. 34, referred by Endlicher to P. sinensis, and by Parlatore l. c. to P. Kasya, 
I$ known only from Forbes's insufficient description, which states that it is a very 
tender species, a native of Nepal, procured for Messrs. Lawson of Edinburgh, with 
leaves in pairs, occasionally in threes or fours, glaucous when young, green when old. 
Neither flower nor fruit are known; and it is not worth further notice. Wallich’s 
“ Pinus No. 7278 an P, Pinea,” from specimens cultivated in Nepal or Kumaon, is 
one of above. 
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Leaves in clusters of 5-8. 
` 1l. P. excelsa, Wall. Pl. As. Rar. ii. t. 201; Cat. €059 (by error 
7059): leaves 4-8 in. slender drooping, sheaths and primary leaves 
deciduous, cones peduncled cylindric penduious, scales rhomboidly ovate 
hardly thickened at the rounded apex, seeds oblong, wing subfaleate 
obliquely truncate.  Eadl. Conif. 145 ; Parlat. in DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 404 ; 
Griff. Notul. iv. 18 (Jtin. Notes 193, No. 398); Ic. PI. Asiat. 366 ; Brand. 
For. Fl. 510; Cleghorn Pines of N.W. Himal. t. 2; Gamble Man. Ind. 
Timb. 398; Lamb. Pin. Ed. 2, 40, t.26. P. pendula, Griff. Journ. 211, &c. 
P. Griffithii, M*Clellaud in Griff. Notul. iv. 17 tin. Notes 145, No. 21?) ; 
lc. Pl. Asiat. t, 365, 
TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, alt, 6-12,500 ft. (absent in Central and N.W. Kumaon 
and in Sikkim).— DISTRIB. Affghanistan, Macedonia ? . 
lofty symmetrical tree, attaining 150 ft. Leaves filiform, triquetrous, grey- or 
ue-green, margins serrulate, white “on two of the faces, falling in the second or 
third year; sheaths iin. wholly deciduous, entire. Male spikes short cylindric- 
oblong. Cone 6-10 in.; scales concave. Seeds about 1 in., cotyledons usually 9.— 
The P. Peuce of Macedonia is hardly distinguishable by definable character in a dry 
state. p Grifithii, M‘Clelland, is founded on Gritfith's drawing of the ripe cone of 
P. excelsa, 
