2444. 



ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



PART iir. 



recurved, with membranaceous 

 wings on the margin, replicate. 

 (^Lamb. Pin., iii.) A tall tree, 

 a native of New Holland. In- 

 troduced in 1824, and requiring 

 the protection of the green- 

 house. 



Description. A tall tree, but 

 more loose than A. excelsa ; 

 varying from 60 ft. to 100 ft. in 

 height, with a very straight naked 

 trunk, covered with a brownish 

 bark, from 4 ft. to 8 ft. in diame- 

 ter. Branches verticillate, spread- 

 ing. Leaves smooth, shining 

 green, of different forms : in the 

 young tree, vertically compressed, 

 divaricate and spreading, 2-rowed 

 in a quincunx manner, linear- 

 awl-shaped, spinulose and mucro- 

 nate, straight, rigid, decurrent at 

 the base, ^ in. long ; in the full- 

 grown tree horizontal, and in a 

 close spiral, incurved, loosely 

 imbricated, lanceolate from the 

 broad base, acute, glabrous, thick 

 and coriaceous; flattish above 

 keeled beneath, § in. long. Male 

 catkins terminating the branch- 

 lets, solitary, sessile, cylindrical, 

 obtuse, 3 in. long, about as thick 

 as the finger, a little contracted 

 at the apex and base ; scales 

 peltate, stalked, closely imbri- 

 cated, discoid and flattish, semi- 

 -ovate, mucronulate, callous ; 

 stalk linear compressed, bluntly keeled before, scarcely longer than the disk. 

 Anthers many (10), linear, parallel, inserted under the disk of the scales, in 

 2 rows, and there connate, but in other respects free, pendent. Pollen 

 rather large, spherical, smooth. Young 

 cones only seen, terminal, solitary, 

 sessile, ovate, 3 in. long, and of nearly 

 the same thickness ; about the size of 

 the head of Z)jpsacus fullonum : scales 

 wedge-shaped, thick, coriaceous, dark 

 yellow, \ in. long, membranaceous and 

 winged on the margin, replicate and 

 wavy; point linear awl-shaped, spinulose 

 and mucronate, recurved, callous, i the 

 length of the scale. Ovule conferrumi- 

 nate with the scale (flattened pericar- 

 pium), not free, but, as it were, con- 

 cealed in the scale. Mature seed not 

 seen. {Lamb.) 



Gcogra'phy, Sfc. The Moreton Bay 

 pine is found, as the name imports, 

 on the shores of Moreton Bay : it 

 has also (according to a statement published by Mr. Allan Cunningham, 

 the colonial botanist, in the 3d volume of Lambert's Pinus), a range 



230-1. 



