244 PiNUS ; OR 



edges, and from eight to ten inches long. Sheaths, one inch 

 and a quarter long, persistent and silky. Cones, slightly curved, 

 five inches long, and two inches in diameter in the widest part. 

 Scales, thickened at the base, rhomboidal, with a transverse 

 ridge, and depressed at the base ; protuberance elevated into a 

 point. 



A very regularly-formed tree, growing from 100 to 110 feet 

 high, upon the mountains west from Ixtacihuatl, near Ameca 

 in Mexico. 



No. 94. PiNUS BULLATA, Roezl, the Puckered-scaled Mexican 



Pine. 

 (Discovered by M. Roezl in 1856-7.) 



Leaves, in fives, slender, three-edged, and twelve inches 

 long. Sheaths, one inch long, and silky. Cones, from six to 

 seven inches long, and two inches and a half in diameter. 

 Scales, rhomboid, blistered or puckered on the surface, three- 

 quarters of an inch wide, and six lines long ; protuberance 

 round, with a sharp point rising up towards the summit. 



A tree from fifty to seventy feet high, with its branches ex- 

 tending more than 100 feet in diameter, and found near the 

 village of San Mateo in Mexico, at an elevation of about 8,000 

 feet. 



No. 95. PiNus Carrierei, Roezl, Carriere's Pine. 

 (Discovered by M. Roezl in 1856-7.) 



Leaves, in fives, twelve or thirteen inches long, sharp-pointed, 

 and three-edged. Sheaths, one inch and a half long, and silky. 

 Cones, five inches long, and nearly two inches in diameter. 

 Scales, rhomboidal, elevated in the centre, transversely keeled 

 across the middle, and of a reddish brown colour ; protuberance 

 large, projecting, and terminated by a recurved point. 



A tree from 100 to 130 feet high, growing ia the forests of 

 Tulancingo in Mexico, at an elevation of 8,000 or 9,000 feet. 



Named in compliment to M. Carriere of Paris. (? Pinus 

 macrophylla.) 



