2286 



ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



PAR'J- II 



ticultural Society's Garden, ;iin, long ^ 2198 



and y% in. broad ; conical, with straight 



sides, and pointed. (F/g. 2197.) Leaves 



rather more than 6 in. long. Cone 9 in. 



lon"^, and 2 in. broad, with a footstalk 



lin°'long; scale IJ in. long, and l^in. 



broad. Seeds ^ in. long, and | in. 



broad; with the wing, l^in. long, and 



I in. broad. A native of Nepal, on 



mountains. Introduced in 1823. 

 2197 Description. A tall, handsome, pyra- 

 midal tree, attaining the height of from 90 ft. to 

 120 ft, Branches numerous, ascending, divid- 

 ed, disposed in whorls. Bark entire, smooth, 

 soft pale grey. Wood white, abounding in 

 a liquid resin." Leaves in fives, very long, slen- 

 der, triquetrous, loose; glaucous green, pli- 

 able • 5 in. to 7 in. long, roughish on the angles from small teeth ; furnished at 

 the apex with a small callous mucro, crowded on the branches, particularly 

 towards the apexes ; bicanaliculate above, flat beneath ; sheaths about i in. 

 Ion", caducous, imbricated vvith numerous, linear-oblong, brown, membrana- 

 ceous scales. Catkins terminal, with numerous membranaceous brown scales 

 at the base; male ovate, short, obtuse, sessile, dense, collected into a head 

 about 3 lines long, and 1 in. thick. Stamens monadelphous. Anthers very short 

 roundish, opening below 

 longitudinally, filled with 

 sulphur-coloured pollen ; 

 crest small, roundish, 

 simple, membranaceous ; 

 dark-brown, fringed and 

 torn on the margin; 

 female oblong, cylindri- 

 cal, in threes or fours, 

 erect, when young jie- 

 dunculate ; scales broad, 

 roundish, imbricated in- 

 wards, coriaceous, thick, 

 margined, smooth. Cones 

 3 or 4 together, cylin- 

 drical, pedunculate, na- 

 ked, smooth ; 64 in. long, 

 pendulous when ripe, 

 2 in. in diameter, some- 

 what attenuated towards 

 the apex ; scales broad, 

 wedge-shaped, coriace- 

 ous, thick, closely imbri- 

 cated, smooth ; light 

 brown ; apiculate above, 

 with a short, thick, ob- 

 tuse, dark brown mucro. 

 Seeds ovate, compressed 

 on both sides ; testa 

 bony, black, marked with grey spots; wing oblong-obtuse, membranaceous, 

 ferruginous, somewhat cimeter-shaped, reticulate. (Lamfj.) P. excelsa, Mr. 

 Lambert observes, a[)i)roaches so near in habit, and in the shape of its cones, 

 to /'. .Vtrobus, that, were it not for the simple, round, membranaceous crest 

 of the anthers, it would be almost im|)Ossil)io to distinguish them specifically. 

 The leaves are longer than in P. 5tr6bus, nnd the cones are thicker. Dr. 



