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Conical, or egg-shaped, and in clusters round the ends of the 

 previous shoots. Branches, spreading, horizontal, slender, and 

 covered with smooth ashy.grey bark ; lateral ones thickly covered 

 ■with short, stiff, curved, glaucous leaves. Cones, oval, or ellip- 

 tic, blunt at the ends, one inch and a quarter long, and composed 

 of about twenty scales. Scales, wedge-shaped, large, somewhat 

 orbicular at the base, and rounded above, leathery, or almost 

 woody, concave, and of a greyish brown colour, each scale 

 covering two large wingless seeds at its base. Seeds, oval, or 

 elliptic, obtuse at both ends, and resembling those of the Sibe- 

 rian Stone Pine, but much larger, with a hard, bony, smooth 

 shell, of a yellowish brown colour. Seed-leaves, from eight to 

 ten in number. 



A small tree, growing from twenty to twenty-five feet high, 

 in the northern parts of Japan, on the island of ' Kuriles,' on 

 high mountains, and on the hill sides of Falcone. It is also 

 found cultivated in the Japanese gardens, where they call it 

 * Goyono Matsu ' (Pinus pentaphylla), and distinguish diflTe- 

 rent varieties, some on account of their small dimensions (Fime- 

 gajo-Matsu, the Dwarf Pine, with five leaves), and others on 

 account of their longer leaves and less stunted appearance. 



It is quite hardy. 



No. 83. Pinus Pseudo-Strobus, Lindley, the False Strobus Pine. 

 Syn. Pinus Tenangaensis, Roezl. 



Leaves, in fives, very slender, eight or ten inches long, of a 

 bluish grey or glaucous colour, rather pendulous when full 

 grown, and slightly angular ; sheaths, one inch long, composed 

 of imbricated scales, and jagged at the ends. Branches, diverg- 

 ing at right angles from the main stem as in the Weymouth 

 Pine (P. Strobus), with numerous slender branchlets. Cones, 

 long, oval-pointed, and curved, four or five inches long, and 

 two inches and a half broad near the middle, and growing in 

 whorls round the branches in a horizontal direction. Scales, 

 rather thin, and not very hard, rhomboid, and thickened at the 

 apex, pyramidal, erect, and straightish, with a transverse ele- 

 vated line, and a blunt point in the centre. Seeds, middle- 

 sized, with a dark marbled wing one inch and a quarter long. 



