234 riNus ; OR 



Grand Rapids of the Columbia, and on the rocky banks of 

 Spoken River. Timber, white, fine-grained, and tough. 



There is a variety with red-coloured cones, found on the 

 banks of Spoken River. 



It is quite hardy. 



No. 79. PiNus OcciDENTALis, Swartz, the West India Pine. 

 Syn. Pinus Cubensis, Hort. 



Leaves, in fives, bright green, from five to six inches long, 

 rather angular, sharp-pointed, slender, but stiflf, rather distant 

 on the shoots, a little rough at the edges, and with a lanceolate, 

 sharp-pointed scale, half an inch long, growing at their base ; 

 sheaths, smooth, entire, more than half an inch long, and per- 

 sistent. Cones, rather pendulous, three inches and a half long, 

 and one inch and a half broad at the widest part, which is near 

 the base ; conical, and with rather a long footstalk, covered 

 with sharp-pointed scales, like those growing at the base of the 

 foliage. Scales, swelled or thickened at their upper extremity, 

 half an inch broad, and angular, with a scar on the summit, 

 terminated by a small, straight, but very slender point ; the 

 scales are nearly all of a size, except a few near the base and 

 the apex. Seeds, very small, with a narrow, short wing. 



A small tree, with the appearance of the Aleppo Pine (P. 

 Halepensis), thin of foliage. 



It is a native of St. Domingo and Cuba, found plentiful in 

 the quarter of Saint Suzanne, in St. Domingo, growing to the 

 height of from twenty-five to thirty feet, and is easily distin- 

 guished by its lance-shaped scales at the base of each bundle of 

 leaves on the younger shoots. 



It is tender, and distinct from the Pine called ' Occidentalis,' 

 from Mexico. 



No. 80. PiNUS oocARPA, Schiede, the Egg-coned Pine. 



Leaves, in fives, from eight to ten inches long, slender, 

 sharp-pointed, rather pendulous, and slightly angular, bright 



