NEW PLANTS, ETC., FROM THE SOCIETY'S 

 GAEDEN. 



I, PiNus RoTLEANA.''' — Jamieson. 



Although the seeds, cones, and a few loose leaves of this plant 

 are all that have as yet reached Europe, there is no doubt that it 

 forms a species previously quite unknown. The leaves are like 

 those of the Scotch fir in almost all particulars, except that they 

 are much more slender and short ; and the cones, of the size of 

 Pinus sylvestris, have an entirely different form, are smooth as if 

 they had been half polished, and their scales are flat-headed, 

 with a fine, hard, sharp mucro, very distinctly hooked back — 

 (much more uniformly than the artist has represented in the 

 accompanying cut). 



Cone of Pinus Royleana. 



All that is known of its history is that the fragments above 

 alluded to were received in 1853, from Dr. Jamieson, as belonging 



* P. (Pinaster) Royleana ; foliis geminis tenuibiis canaliculatis contortis 

 divergentibus, strobilis parvis oblongis obtusis lajvigatis, sqnamaram apo- 

 physiangnsta rugosalrrvi umbonnloduroapiciilatoretrorsTimiinoinato.— .T.L. 



