216 PINUS ; OR 



Section III. QUINiE, or those Kinds having five Leaves 

 IN EACH Sheath. 



No. 58. PiNUS Apulcensis, Lindley, the Apulco Pine. 

 Syn. Pinus Acapulcensis, Don. 



Leaves, in fives, rather sliort, slender, blunt-pointed, six 

 inches long, much undulated, and of a deep glaucous green. 

 Sheaths, rather long, and imbricated. Branches, rather robust, 

 irregular, few, ascending at the points, and of a glaucous violet 

 colour on the young shoots. Cones, ovate conical, widest 

 at the base, four inches long, and two inches and a half wide 

 near the base ; pendulous, and growing in whorls ; surface 

 very hard, and full of resinous matter. Scales, very rugged, 

 unequally four-sided, pyramidal, straight, or sometimes pro- 

 longed into a curved beak, particularly those nearest the base ; 

 the larger ones measuring three-quarters of an inch across. 

 Seeds, rather small, with an oval shaped wing one inch long. 



A tree attaining a height of fifty feet, and inhabiting the 

 ravines in the mountains near Apulco in Mexico, where it was 

 first discovered by Mr. Hartwe-g in 1839. 



It is rather tender. 



No. 59. PiNUS Ayacahuite, Ehrenberg, the Ayacahuite Pine. 



Leaves, in fives, three-edged, slender, but rather stiff, flat on 

 the back, with a sharp projecting mid-rib and two furrows on 

 the inner face ; from three to four inches long, straight, very 

 glaucous on both sides, and whitish when young, with a few 

 wide serratures near the points. Sheaths, short, scaly, mem- 

 branaceous, and soon curling up and falling off. Branches, 

 rather slender, regularly in whorls, spreading, numerous, and 

 covered with a glossy smooth greyish bark. Cones, very long 

 and slender, being from ten to twelve inches in length, and 

 three inches broad at the base, and tapering regularly to a 

 sharp point, which is slightly incurved towards the upper part, 

 full of resinous matter, and pendant from the extremities of the 



