204 PINUS; OR 



PiNUS PATULA STRiCTA, Bentham. 

 Syn. Pinus patula erecta, Hort. 



This is a more slender tree, with shorter and stiffer foliage 

 which does not droop, and only a little spreading, but with cones 

 only half the size of those of the species. 



It is found on the Real del Monte range of mountains in 

 Mexico, a tree from fifty to sixty feet high. 



Pinus patula macrocaupa, Schiede. 



Leaves, in threes, but frequently in fives, slender, and very 

 like those of the species. Cones, very large, from six to seven 

 inches long, and two inches broad ; glossy, pale brown in colour, 

 and with the scales less elevated, but more drawn to a flattened 

 pyramid. 



It is a much larger and taller tree than the species, growing 

 upwards of 100 feet high, but at a much lower elevation than 

 the species. 



No. 40. Pinus Pinceana, Gordon, Mr. Pince's Mexican Pine. 



Leaves, in threes, but frequently in twos, very slender, three- 

 edged, straight, and rather blunt-pointed ; from three to four 

 inches long, quite entire on the margins, and of a slightly glau- 

 cous green colour. Sheaths, scaly, and soon falling off. 

 Branches, long, slender, flexible, and pendulous ; branchlets, 

 slender, long, and drooping. Cones, from three to three inches 

 and a half long, and one inch and a half broad a little above the 

 base, conical, blunt pointed, of a glossy brown colour, and on 

 rather stout footstalks. Scales, irregularly shaped, somewhat 

 four-sided, rounded on the upper margin, and largest one third 

 from the base of the cone ; those nearest the base being very 

 much the smallest, more or less angular, and elevated, with the 

 outer side keeled, and much the longest, while those along the 

 middle of the cone are nearly flat or slightly elevated, with a sharp 

 transverse ridge across the centre, terminated in the middle by a 

 large oval projecting scar, a little hollow on the top, and when 

 young furnished with abroad spine. Seeds, very large, wingless, 

 and more than half an inch long. 



