CLUSTER PINE: STONE PINE 187 



obliquely broad-ovoid and shining cinnamon- 

 brown, or fawn-yellow, umbo sharp. Male 

 flower 18 20 mm. long. Leaves about 140 

 160 (80 200) mm., acute, grass green. 



P. Pinaster, Soland. Cluster Pine. It is called the 

 Cluster Pine owing to the whorled clusters of cones. 

 Large tree with coarse bark. Young $ cones red- violet. 



Male flowers ovoid, 18 20 mm. long, crowded; sta- 

 mens golden yellow, with large rounded, irregularly toothed 

 anther-processes. 



Female flowers small, violet-red, lateral, in pseudo- 

 whorls of 4 8, or more, at the tips of the shoots. Ovu- 

 liferous scales slightly longer than the carpellary scales, 

 and often concave outwards like hoods. 



Cone nearly sessile, often numerous, directed obliquely 

 outwards in stellate fashion, longish or ovoid, 7 19 cm. 

 long, shining brown, with oblique base and more strongly 

 developed on the exposed side. Apophysis rhomboid, with 

 sharp transverse ridge, and matt-brown umbo, pyramidal 

 on exposed side. 



Cones sub-terminal, in groups of 1 2 ; 

 resinous, ovoid-globoid, 100130 (80150) 

 mm. long ; shining chestnut-brown, greenish- 

 white when young. Umbo arising from a 

 slight depression. floivers 8 13mm. long. 

 Needles 120180 (80200) mm., rather 

 twisted, bright green. 



P. Pinea, L. Stone Pine. So apt to form the spreading 

 umbrella head that it is often termed the "Umbrella Pine." 

 Bark reddish-grey. 



Male flowers 8 13 mm. long, cylindroid, crowded in 

 spike-like groups, surrounded at the base with brown 

 scales, in the axil of a reflexed brown linear-lanceolate 



