PLANTÆ ASIATICZE RARIORES. 
PINUS EXCELSA. Tab. 201. 
Pinus excelsa, Lamb. Monogr. Pini, ed. secund. vol. 1. p. 40. tab. 26. 
Crescit in alpibus altissimis regni Butan, ubi primi m detexit Dom. W. S. Webb. Ipse observavi in monte Sheopur 
Napaliæ, etiam copiosé in convalli ipsa ad Bunipa, coniferam et florentem mense Maji. 
Although this noble pine has already been admirably represented and described in Mr. Lambert's superb mono- 
graphy on the family to which it belongs, from specimens and memorandums which I supplied, I have thought 
that a figure taken on the spot might fitly be introduced into the present work; and I am confident that my 
esteemed friend will interpret my motives on this occasion with that liberality which during half a century has placed 
his name so deservedly high among the best benefactors and patrons of the science of botany. 
The tree grows to a vast size in Butan. Those individuals which I had an opportunity of examining in Nipal had 
a less elevated stature, but still they were very large. The wood is much esteemed in Nipal, and I am informed by 
Mr. Aikin, Secretary to the Society of Arts, that it is the most compact of the whole tribe. 
Plate CCI. Fig. 1. A branch, with male amentum. 2. Detached male amentum. 3. Scale and anthers. 4. 5. 6. Scales of the 
cone, 7. Seed. 
MORINA LONGIFOLIA. Tab. 202. 
Morina longifolia, DeCand. Prodr. vol. 4. p. 644. 
Incolit alpes Himalayæ ad Gossain Than et Kamaon, florens mense Augusti. 
PrANTA erecta, satis robusta, pedalis bipedalisve, quin tripedalis, supern? villositate caná, longå vestita. Raprx fusiformis, attenuata, 
sublignosa, fusca, 6-pollicaris, superne fibrillosa. Cauuas cylindricus, exsulcus, telâ spongioså, niveâ farctus, e basi digitum minimum ferð 
crasso attenuatus, indivisus, apice villosus, ibique pennam cygneam crassitie sæpð emetiens. Forra angustato-oblonga, sinuata, subpinna- 
tifida, spinoso-acuminata, deorsåm valdé attenuata, petiolata, subcarnosa, glabra, suprà atroviridia, impresso-punctulata, subtüs albicantia, 
costå latå nervisque remotis elevatis ; /obi rotundati, alternatim divaricati, unguiculares, subdistantes, inciso-dentati, dentibus triangulari- 
bus, terminatis spinå longå, rigidå, albå, hinc indè muniti glandulå cylindrica, brevi, marginali ; radicalia plura, longissima, pedalia usque 
ad bipedalia, patentia ; caulina ternata, disposita in verticillos duos tresve remotiusculos, erecto-patentia, 6—10-pollicaria, interstitiis 
tertid longiora, verticilli supremi reliquis angustiora et breviora, integra, sessilia, spinoso-dentata. PerroLi breves, lati, marginato-spinosi ; 
foliorum caulinorum connati in vaginam adpressam, tricostatam. Frores rosei, inodori, pollicares, brevè pedicellati, densissimê congesti 
in verticillos plures convexos, inferiores remotos, superiores valde approximatos, spicam terminalem semipedalem ad pedalem formantes, 
suffultos foliis floralibus, bracteisve sessilibus, verticillatis, ternatis, ovato-lanceolatis, acuminatis, spinoso-dentatis, basi latà concavis, nunc 
subcordatis, 2—3-pollicaribus, villis longis, sericeis, laxis dens? obsitis. INvouvceLLum cylindricum, membranaceum, infra ovarium 
insertum, villosum, unguiculare, fauce subtruncatå munitum dentibus 8 erectis, subulatis, pungentibus, subdistantibus: 4 tubum 
æquantibus, unico sæpe reliquis longiore, 4 alternis, brevioribus. Catyx adnatus, tubulosus, valdé tenuis, basi villosus; limbi 
bifidi, dentibus involucelli brevioris laciniæ ovatæ, erectæ, bilobæ, lobis ovatis, obtusis, reticulatis. CorouLa dilutè rosea, hypocrateri- 
formis, extås pubescens, foliis floralibus dimidid vel tripld brevior; tubus gracillimus, ferè filiformis, involucello dimidid longior, 
adscendens; limbus parvus, patens, tubo quadruplò brevior, bilabiatus, 5-lobus; Jobi ovati, obtusi, intermedius labii inferioris reliquis 
parìm longior, basi contractus. STAMINA 4, paulld exserta, — 2 fertilium filamenta brevissima, puberula, infra faucem inserta, 
Vor. III. 
