Pinus. — MONOECIA MONADELPHIA. 651 
1. P. longifolia, Willd. iv. 500. 
Leaves three-fold, filiform, from twelve to eighteen jalan 
long, pendulous, with the margins a little scabrous. Cones 
ovate, shorter than the leaves, scales with thick recurved 
apices. Anihers crowned. 
Hind. Chur the name of the tree, and Surul the wood. 
_ In gardens about Calcutta a few small trees of this species 
are found, all from Nepal or from the mountains north of the 
plains of Bengal, and Oude, or reared from seed from thence, 
where they are found on the stupenduous mountains, grow- 
ing to an immense size. There they blossom about the be- 
ginning of the hot season. . 
Trunk, 1 have observed above, that the trees about Cal- 
cutta are small, but in Nepal, I am informed they grow 
straight to upwards of an hundred feet in height ; the bark 
is scabrous. The branches verticelled, and rather few in 
number than otherwise, so that here the head is thin, of a 
roundish form, and yields little shade—I mean the trees 
about Calcutta. Leaves three-fold, disposed in approximat- 
ed spiral rows round the end of the branchlets, perfectly fili- 
form; margins somewhat hispid, when the finger is drawn 
~ backward, generally pendulous, and from nine to eighteen 
inches or more in length, Stipules or sheaths, round the 
base of the leaves, numerous and chaffy. MALE FLOWERs, 
Antheral racemes numerous at the extremities of the branch- 
lets, from their centre issue the shoots of the same season, 
Bractes solitary, oneto each raceme. lowers very numer- 
ous. Filaments scarcely any. Anthers clavate, opening on 
each side, and crowned with a large roundish scale, inflexed 
over the next above. 
2. P. Devdara, R. 
Branches drooping. Leaves in approximated fascicles of 
about forty,. rigid, acute, Strobilus erect, oval ; scales 
thereof appressed, thin, smooth, even-edged, transversely el- 
: lips Cotyledons ten. 
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