Zuec., with which it has to some extent been confounded, 
The material from which our illustration has mainly been 
prepared was derived from one of a group of young trees 
raised from seed transmitted to Kew in 1897 by Mr. A. 
Henry, who had collected it at Mengtze, in Yunnan. 
These trees, which are now from 10-15 feet high, and 
are growing very freely, are probably the finest in Europe. 
Whilst several of them have borne cones, no male inflores- 
cence has yet been produced, and the seeds are consequently 
infertile. The figures of the male flowers, male spikelets 
and seed here given have been prepared from an authentic 
specimen of the plant preserved in the herbarium at Kew. 
‘The cones of P. Armandii, which promises to be one of the 
most ornamental of the pines of the 5-leaved group, vary 
consideraby in size, the largest being 7 in. long and 3-3} in. 
wide. 
Drscriprion.— Tree, reaching 60 ft. in height, bark 
smooth, greenish. Buds lanceolate or cylindric, pale and 
hardly resinous, their scales quickly deciduous. Twigs 
smooth, glabrous or sparingly beset with small scattered 
hairs, at length ash grey. Leaves in tufts of five, slender, 
somewhat blunt, very finely serrulate, 4-6 in. long, under 
3 lin. wide, triangular in’ section, green above, beneath 
with a whitish line along each side of the midrib. Male 
catkins clustered, cylindric, yellow, reaching 8 lin. in 
length, clothed at the base with wide obovate scales thinly 
scarious upwards and with hyaline edges. Cones sub- 
terminal, pendent or spreading, their peduncles 3-1 in. long, 
elongate-ovoid or cylindric, obtuse, 4-7 in. long, 2-3 in. 
wide; scales rigid, woody, rhomboid, 1} in. long, 14 10. 
wide, the hidden lower portion reddish, the exposed upper 
part green or at length olive-green, the tip thickened and 
hardly if at all recurved. Seed ellipsoid, somewhat dorsally 
compressed, 6-7 lin, long, 5 lin. wide, of a pale tawny 
colour and with a sharp circumferential edge which 1s 
often somewhat produced at the tip. 
_ _ Fig. 1, leaves; 
inflorescence; 6 
rest enlarged, 
2, tip of a leaf; 3, leaf in transverse section ; 4 and 5, male 
and 7, male fluwers; 8, seed :—1, 4 and 8 of naturul size, the 
