108 Row.LeEeE: NoTes ON ANTILLEAN PINES 
Pinus Montezumae, has a cone more like this species than any other 
I have seen, but this is a five-needled pine. Specimens were col- 
lected at Santa Rosalie, Isle of Pines. The tree also occurs com- 
monly over the island. 
Of the several kinds of pine distinguished on the island by the 
natives, the wood of this species is preferred over all others for 
construction. It has been extensively exported to Cuba, and 
although the forests are showing considerable ability to regenerate 
and perpetuate themselves in spite of frequent burning, there is 
but a remnant left of what must have been originally a magnifi- 
cent pine forest. The island is certainly well named. Several 
tracts have been boxed for turpentine but have not been utilized 
in recent years. It was said that the boxing was mainly done 
during our Civil War. 
It grows commingled with what we considered Pinus Cubensis 
Grisebach, and was confined to the higher parts of the island but 
did not occur on the mountains. 
Pinus Cubensis grows well down toward the shores of the 
island and in these situations we collected specimens which may 
be designated : 
P. Cubensis anomala var. nov. 
Tree 6-9 m. high: needles slender, 3 in a fascicle, bracts 6— 
_ 8 mm. long, green on the young shoots and resembling the leaves 
of a spruce, and persistent during the first season, 
Dr. Engelmann notes the same tendency in Pinus serotina 
where trees had been felled and new shoots subsequently de- 
veloped, or posts from freshly cut trees set in the ground. (Trans. 
Acad. Sci. St. Louis, 4: 183. 1880.) 
The cones and needles of these trees did not present any 
departure from P. Cudbensis and we concluded that the smaller size 
of the trees and the peculiar development of the bracts was due 
to the proximity of the sea or some other environmental cause. 
There were several trees near Jucaro Landing on the eastern side 
of the island. The reversion of the scales to what is generally 
considered the primitive form of the primary leaf of the pine 1s 
an exceedingly interesting phenomenon. 
CORNELL UNIVERSITY. 
