190 PINUS; OR 



wMcli is of equal dimensions in these regions. The lofty moun- 

 tains surrounding Bear Valley are well wooded by Pinus 

 Benthamiana. 



This very valuable timber tree was named by Mr. Hartweg, 

 in compliment to George Bentham, Esq., late Secretary to the 

 London Horticultural Society. It is quite hardy, and the most 

 valuable of all the tribe for timber. 



No. 24. Pinus brachyptera, Wislizenus, the Short "Wing- 

 seeded Pine. 



Leaves, in threes, but sometimes in twos, or fours, of a dark 

 green, and rough at the edges ; from three inches and a half to 

 six inches long, and mostly in bunches at the ends of the 

 branches ; sheaths, persistent, and nearly black when old ; buds, 

 covered with regularly acuminated, membranaceous, fringed, 

 persistent scales. Branches, horizontal. Cones, rather erect, 

 ovate, oblong, or somewhat conical, from two and a half to 

 three inches long, and one inch and a half broad at the widest 

 part. Scales, thickened at the base, elevated, recurved, and 

 spiny-pointed. Seeds, three or four lines long, and two lines 

 broad. Wing, shorter than the seeds. 



A handsome tree, growing from eighty to a hundred feet high, 

 and two or three feet in diameter ; found abundantly by Messrs. 

 Wislizenus and Engelmann, on the mountains of New Mexico, 

 producing excellent timber. 



No. 26. Pinus Bungeana, Zuccarini, the Chinese Lace-bark 



Pine. 

 Syn. Pinus excorticata, Gordon. 



Leaves, in threes, very stiff, convex on the back, and acutely 

 keeled on the inner face ; two or three inches long, and thickly 

 placed along the young shoots, frequently in bundles towards 

 the ends of the branches, somewhat in whorls, and irregularly 

 three-edged ; sheaths, composed of numerous loose scales, which 

 soon fall off, and leave the base of the leaves naked ; buds, non- 

 resinous, and formed of several reddish brown, smooth, fringed 

 scales, largest at the base, and rough at the edges. Male catkins. 



