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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



PART III. 



and in the Duke of Devonshire's villa at Chiswick, are from 3 ft. to 5 ft. 

 in height. It is needless to say that such a pine ought to be in every 

 collection. Plants, in the London nurseries, are 5/. each. 



i. 28. P. Teoco'te Schiede et Deppe. The Teocote, or twisted-leaved. Pine. 



Identification. Schiede et Deppe in Schlecht Linnaea, 5. p. 76. ; Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., 1. t. 20. 

 Engravings. Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., 1. t. 20., from specimens furnished by MM. Schiede and Deppe, the 



discoverers ; and our Jigs. 2173. and 2174., from Lambert's figures, and from a specimen of a living 



plant at Boyton. 



2173 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaves in threes, com- 

 pressed, flexuose, scabrous ; sheaths 

 about ^ in. long. Cones ovate, 

 smoothish. {Lamb. Pin.) A native 

 of Mount Orizaba, near Vera Cruz, 

 in Mexico. Introduced by A. B. Lam- 

 bert, Esq., in 1826, or before. 

 Desaiptioiu Branchlets very leafy, with 

 a persistent epidermis. Buds imbricated 

 with lanceolate, acuminate, ciliate, and 

 torn scales. Leaves 

 in threes, erect, 

 rigid, compressed, 

 acute, tortuous ; 

 light green, bica- 

 naliculate above, 

 slightly convex be- 

 neath, very smooth ; 

 the intermediate 

 slightly prominent 

 angle, and the mar- 

 gins, crenulated, 

 scabrous ; sheaths 

 cylindrical, about 

 1 in. in lengtii, persistent, torn on the 

 margin. Cones ovate-oblong, drooping, 

 smoothish, scarcely 3 in. long ; scales di- 

 lated at the apex, somewhat trapezoidal, 

 muchdeprcs.sed; in the young cones alway.s 

 mutic. {Lamb.) This is a very rare species ; 

 there being no plants of it either at Drop- 

 more or in the Horticultural Society's 

 Garden. Indeed, so far as we are aware, 

 it exists in no other collection in Britain, 

 than that of Mr. Lambert at Boyton. 



} 29. P. I'a'tula Schiede et Deppe MSS. The spreuding-Z^-avfrf l^ine. 



Idrntification. Lamb. Pin., ed. 1., t 19. 



Engravings. Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., 1. t. 19. ; anA Jigs. 217.5. and 2176., from Mr. Lambert's (igurc. 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaves in threes, very slender, 2-channeled, spreading ; 

 sheaths about 1 in. long. Cones ovate-oblong, polished. {Lamb. Pin.) 

 A native of Mexico, at Malpayo de la Joya, in the cold region, where 

 it was discovered by MM. Schiede and De|)pe, and introduced into 

 England by Mr. Lambert. 



Description. Branchlets covered with a smooth, ash-lead-coloured, and 

 persistent epidermis. Scales of the bud lanceolate, acuminate, carinate, 

 rigid, threatl-like, and ciliate. Leaves in threes, slender, recurved and 

 spreading; soft, light green; deeply hicanalicnlate above, convex beneath. 



