210 PINUS ; OR 



spreading, sharp-pointed, grass-green, five inches long, and 

 angular on the inner sides ; sheaths, smooth, half an inch long, 

 rather entire at the ends, and of a brownish colour. Branches, 

 rather slender, irregularly placed on the tree, and spreading ; 

 buds, blunt-pointed, with numerous fine scales, and entirely 

 destitute of resin. Cones, small, ovate, blunt-pointed, two 

 inches long, and one inch and a quarter broad, four or five in 

 a whorl, on very short footstalks. Scales, rounded, flat, slightly 

 elevated by a raised line, across the middle, terminated in the 

 centre by a sunken scar, and with the scales much smaller 

 towards the base. Seeds, rather small, with a straight wing 

 half an inch long. 



A low, branching tree, growing thirty or forty feet high, with 

 a drooping appearance, found on the hills all over China, and 

 in Japan. It is also found in Nepal, on the Khasiya hills, and 

 on the mountains of Upper Assam, where it grows fifty or sixty 

 feet high. 



It is tender. 



No. 47. PiNus T^EDA, Linnceus, the Loblolly Pine. 

 Syn. Pinus Virginiana tenuifolia, Pluknt. 



Leaves, in threes, rather slender, and light-green, from five to 

 five inches and a half long, rigid, blunt-pointed, and channelled 

 in the middle on the inner side ; sheaths, one inch long, nearly 

 smooth, and whitish when young, but becoming much shorter and 

 browner when old. Branches, spreading and dense; buds 

 pointed and very full of resin. Cones, mostly in pairs, ovate- 

 oblong, tapering to a blunt point, three and a half to four 

 inches long, and from one and three-quarters to two inches 

 broad, with little or no footstalk. Scales, one inch and a quarter 

 long, and three-quarters of an inch wide, lengthened into a 

 low pyramid, terminated with a sharp prickle turned inwards. 

 Seeds, small, with a longish wing, upwards of an inch in 

 length. 



A lofty tree, growing eighty feet high, with a clear stem 

 fifty feet, and from two to three feet in diameter, with a wide- 

 spreading head. 



