Cunrivation.—The Pines at Kew as a whole succeed 
better and resist the evil influences of London smoke and 
fog more successfully than the majority of Conifers do, and 
P. Bungeana, which has long been in cultivation, is no 
exception to this rule. This species grows very well in the 
ordinary gravelly soil characteristic of that part of the 
Pinetum in which it is planted. At Kew the trees assume 
in habit two distinct forms; an erect pyramidal form and a 
rounded bushy one. The figure here given was prepared 
from a tree of the former type, which is now 25 ft. high, 
with a trunk 23 inches in girth at 3 ft. from the ground. 
The trunk is covered with a smooth bark which peels off 
very much after the manner of the common Plane. A 
distinct and striking tree, P. Bungeana is also attractive 
from the deep vivid green of its foliage. 
Descriprion.— Tree, 60-100 ft. high; crown pyramidal 
or ovoid; stem often dividing low down into erect or 
ascending branches; young bark tawny with grey patches, 
old bark whitish flaking; young branches greenish-brown, 
smooth. Leaves in threes, rigid, 2-4 in. long, yg in. wide, 
keeled below, convex above, with finely serrate margins, 
dark green and somewhat shining; fascicles at times sub- 
verticillate, their bases clothed at first with lanceolate, acute, 
brown, membranous deciduous scales 4-4 in. long. Male 
catkins numerous, {—} in. long, aggregated in compound, 
bracteate, terminal spikes 3-2} in. long; bracts }-} in. 
long, wide ovate, cuspidately acuminate and recurved at the 
tips, pale brown, shining, submembranous. Cone when 
mature 14-2 in. long, 14-14 in. across, ovoid-conical ; scales 
obovate, transversely rhomboidly thickened at the tips, 
transversely keeled and shortly reflexed mucronate. Seeds 
when young slightly winged; when ripe wingless, } in. 
long, } in. wide, compressed, ellipsoid or almost orbicular, 
pale brown. 
Fig. 1, section of a leaf; 2, stamen; 3 and 4, female bract with scale; 
5, cone; 6 and 7, female bract with scale, in fruiting stage; 8, seed :—all 
enlarged except fig. 5, which is of natural size. 
