236 piNUs ; OR 



vation, very slender, sharp-pointed, three- edged, thickly set on 

 the branches, very rough at the edges, of a light but bright 

 green colour, and much resembling those of Pinus Pseudo- 

 Strobus ; sheaths, persistent, or not falling off, about half an 

 inch in length, rather smooth, and entire. Seed-leaves, on the 

 young plants from seven to eight in number. Branches, nume- 

 rous, spreading, rather irregular, slightly incurved, and slender, 

 bark rough, buds large, light brown, much imbricated, and 

 destitute of resinous matter. Cones, in clusters of four or five, 

 and pendulous, from four to five inches long, and two inches 

 and a half broad at the base, straight, and tapering to a point, 

 with a footstalk nearly one inch in length, and with from twelve 

 to sixteen rows of scales in each,which are much elevated, slightly 

 hooked, and nearly all of a size, but rather smaller towards the 

 extremities, and measure about half an inch across ; each scale 

 contains two very small seeds, with wings nearly an inch in 

 length. 



It was first discovered by Hartweg on the eastern declivity of 

 the Mountain of Orizaba, in Mexico, at the same elevation 

 (10,000 feet) as P. cembroides, growing in company with that 

 species and a bushy Juniper ; forming a small tree about thirty 

 feet high, with a very graceful foliage and habit, but not abun- 

 dant. It ripens its seeds in November, and is not quite hardy, 

 as very severe winters in England kill it. 



No. 82. PiNUS PARViFLORA, Siehold, the Small (male) Flowered 



Japan Pine. 

 Syn. Pinus Cembra, Thunberg, not of others. 

 Leaves, in fives, very glaucous on both faces, stiff, pointed, 

 slender, and mostly bent or twisted, convex, or flat on the back, 

 with the inner face stoutly keeled, three- edged, denticulated on 

 the back of the keel, and varying in length on the same shoot ; 

 from three quarters of an inch to two inches in length, and 

 remaining on the branches for three years ; sheaths, composed 

 of long membranaceous scales, which soon fall off", and leave the 

 base of the leaves naked, jutting out, and not decurrent; male 

 catkins, very small, not more than three or four lines long. 



