SKETCH OF THE CONIi^EilS OF jTAPAK 



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ou a sliort stalk, sub-conical, rounded at the bpe, sensibly at- 

 tenuated towards tlie apex, more or less incurved, haying an outer 

 longer and an inner smaller side. Fig. 37 represents one dried 

 and expanded. Scales \\oody, oblong, ratlier thickened upwards, 



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Fig. 36. 



Fig. 38. 



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obliquely rhomboid at tbe apex, avcolated (fig 38). Chesuut- 

 coloured seeds, subrbomboiclal witli tbe side angles rounded (fig, 

 39). Wings three times as long as the seed, membranaceous, 

 cultrlform, pale testaceous, with delicate dark brown stripes. Test 

 or nut crustaceous, fuscescent, Vr-ith a darker marbling shoeing 

 a tendency to spotting. Embryo generally with six short oblong 

 obtuse cotyledons (fig. 40). 



The first notice of this Pine by European authors is that of 

 Mr. Lambert, who gives three lines of description and a figure of 



the leaves and inflorescence in his " Genus Pinus. 



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He men- 



tions that the specimen represented in his plate was in the 

 Bauksian Herbarium, having been brought by Mr. Francis Masson 



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