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top branchlets. Scales, projecting at the points, bent down- 

 Avards, and recurved at the points, two inches long, and dimi- 

 nishing to a point at the apex ; standing free, thin, wrinkled 

 lengthways, and of a pale yellowish- brown colour. Seeds with 

 a broad wing one inch long. 



A large tree, growing 100 feet high, and three or four feet in 

 diameter, with very much the appearance of the Weymouth 

 Pine (P. Strobus), found in the provinces of Chiapa and Oaxaca 

 in Mexico, particularly on the higher points of the Combre 

 Mountains in the Sierra of Oaxaca, and on the Mount Pelado or 

 bald-mountain. It is also very common on the mountains of 

 Quezaltenango, at an elevation of 8,500 feet, and on the neigh- 

 bouring mountain of Santa Maria, where it is called ' Tablas' 

 by the inhabitants, and ' Ayacahuite' by the Mexicans. 



Timber, white and soft. 



It is tolerably hardy. 



No. 60. PiNUS Balfouriana, Jeffrey, Dr. Balfour's Pine. 



Leaves, in fives, but sometimes in threes, fours, and fives in 

 a sheath on the same shoot, very dense, short, stout, glaucous 

 below, and rigid : curved inwards, blunt-pointed, quite entire, 

 convex on the back, concave on the inner face, resinous, and 

 from one to one inch and a quarter long, on the adult plants. 

 Sheaths, composed of numerous long jagged scales, which soon 

 fall off, and leave the base of the leaves naked. Branches, pen- 

 dulous, and flexible ; bark, smooth, and of a reddish colour- 

 Cones, dark brown, from fovir and a half to five inches long, 

 and rather more than an inch in diameter, tapering regularly 

 towards the point, slightly curved, mostly solitary, pendant on 

 the points of the branches, and full of resinous matter. Scales, 

 from one and a half to one and three-quarters of an inch long j 

 the larger ones six lines broad, thin, flattened, slightly thick- 

 ened towards the ends, four-sided, and concave ; smallest near 

 the base, sometimes partially sunken in the centre, and termi- 

 nated by a dark brown umbo or scar. Seeds, middle-sized, 

 beautifully dotted, and with an ample wing one inch long. 



