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from five to six lines long, cylindrical, or conical ; when young, 

 placed alternately at the base of the young shoots, but frequently 

 afterwards very distant, owing to the rapid elongation of the 

 young shoot. Branches, long, very slender, little divided, 

 glaucous, and covered with a smooth grey bark, rendered a little 

 rough on the stem and older branches by the transverse scars, 

 forming rhomboidal-shaped figures, which in due time are shed, 

 and give the stem and branches a very peculiar appearance. 

 Cones, ovate, or slightly conical, broadest near the base, two 

 inches and a half long, and one inch and a half in diameter, and 

 obtuse ended. Scales, rather more than three quarters of an 

 inch across, and four lines deep, concave, thin, with a slightly 

 elevated keel or ridge, transversely placed across the scale near 

 the upper or outer margin, and furnished in the centre with a 

 short, stout, reflexed point, a little sunken ; those scales near 

 the base of the cone are very much smaller, and numerous. 



A middle-sized tree, found in the north of China, and much 

 cultivated by the Chinese on the island of Chusan, and other 

 parts of China in pots, as the * Lace-bark Pine.' It is the 

 ' Kieu lungmu' of the Chinese. "^ 



It is quite hardy. 



No. 26. PiNTJS Canariensis, Smith, the Canary Island Pine. 



Leaves, in threes, wavy, very long, slender, and spreading ; 

 seven inches long, of a shining grass green, and slightly angular ; 

 frequently pendulous when full grown, and sharp-pointed. 

 Sheaths, half an inch long, torn at the margin, and much shorter 

 on the old leaves. Branches, rather numerous, and regularly 

 placed on the stem, with the branchlets rather slender and 

 drooping ; the larger branches and trunk producing abundance 

 of short shoots, and tufts of leaves. Cones, oblong, cylindrical, 

 five inches and a half long, and two inches and a half wide, 

 quite straight, without any footstalk, and with a hard, glossy 

 surface. Scales, one inch broad, terminating in an irregular 

 pyramid, not much elevated, and with a blunt point, irregularly 

 four-sided. Seeds, half an inch long, with a wing one and three 

 eighths of an inch long. • 



