2272 



AliUORE'lUM AN!) KIIUTICK'IUM. 



I'Airi' HI. 



Spec. Char., ifC. I.ea%'es in fives, sloniler ; sheattis 

 persistent. Cones conical, halt" the length ottlie 

 leaves; scales thickened at the apex, with very 

 small mucros. (/ r»",s'.) The following character 

 of this pine is given by M Loiseleur Deslong- 

 champs in the S'ouveaii Du Hnmcl, from a speci- 

 men with perfect cones, preserved in the herba- 

 rium of M. Poiteau, who gathered it himself 

 in its native conntry. The leaves of this pine 

 are very slender, from 6 in. to 8 in. long, in fives ; 

 sheath about I in. long, not caducous, as in P. 

 StrJibus and P. Cemhrn. At the base of the leaves 

 is a lanceolate scale, a few lines long The cones 

 are about Sin. long; the scales are swelled at 

 their upper extrem.ity, and angular; having an 

 iinihilicus on the summit, ternnnated by a small, 

 straight, very slender point. This pine is a native 

 of the mountains of St. Domingo. There is rea. 

 son to believe that it may be acclimatised in the 

 south of France, as snow occasionally falls on the 

 mountains where it is indigenous. In the Bon 

 Jarriiriier, M. Poiteau observes that he met with 

 this pine in abundance in St. Domingo, in the 

 quarter of Saint Suzanne, where it grows to the 

 height of from i;') ft. to ,')0 tt., with leaves 6 in. 

 long, of a fine green, and cones somewhat larger 

 than those of P. sylvestris. 



1 36. r. Montezu'm^ Lnmb. Monte- 

 Ziinia'.s, or the roui^h-branchcd ilLw- 

 icrin. Pine. 



Idrntificnthn. L.nmb. Pin., 1. 1. 23. 



Sijnunymc. P. occidentalis Kitnth in Hiimh. et 



Jioii]). Nov. Gen. ct Sp. PL, 2. p. 4., Deppe lii 



Schlfrht. Liiinaa, 5. p. 76. 

 Eniiravinns. Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., 1. 1. 22 ; and our 



figs. 2184. and 2185., from Lambert. 



Spec. Char., S[c. Ixjavcs In fives, erect, triquctroiu ; sheaths about 1 in. long, persistent. Cones 

 oblong, al)0ut9in. long, tuberculate. (Lamh. Pin.) A native of Orizaba, and other mountains of 

 Mexico. 



Description. A tall tree. Hranchlets covered with a thick sc.ibrons bark. Leaves generally in 

 fives, rarely in threes or fours, stipidar, persistent, lanc(!olate, nuuh jiointed, with ciliated and torn 

 Hc.iles; erect, waved, somewhat rigid, triquetrous, callous and miu-ronate, glaucous green, marked 

 with many parallel dotted lines ; slightly bicanuliculate above, llattish beneath, li in. long. ; angles cre- 

 nnlated, scabrous; sheaths I in. to IJin. long, persistent; scales amentaceous, ciliate and torn on 

 the margin, bright brown. Male catkins cylindrical, 1 in. long, with many imbricated, oval, ciliated 

 scales at the base. /'. ppcndage to the anthers roundish, convex, coriaceous, membranaceous on the 

 margin, torn, and creinilated. Cones oblong, tiibercled, bright brown, thicker at the base, a little 

 attenuated towards the apex, about (Jin. long; scales elcvatedat the apex, hluntly tetragonal, trun. 

 cate, v<'ry thick. {I.amh.) Mr. I^amhert says : " IJaron Humboldt has referred this species to P. oc- 

 r.'\Aet\tii\\* Sum rtz ; but I have veiiture<t to separate it, as the size of the cones, which may, in general, 

 bo relied on, as indicating a specific distinction in this genus, difl'ers so much." Those described by 

 Swarlz are only .Tin. long, whereas those of P. Montezilm'F are more than double thai length. 



