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No. 103. PiNUsEHREKBETiGiij-EnffZicAer, Ehrcnberg's Mexican 



Pine. 



Leaves, in fives, stiff, and somewhat glaucous, from two inches 

 and a half to three inches long ; sheaths, short, three lines long, 

 and scaly. Cones, ovate, from two to two inches and a quarter 

 long, and rather more than an inch in diameter. Scales, rhom- 

 boid, pyramidal, depressed, thickened at the base, with an 

 acute transverse ridge across the centre ; protuberance, flattened 

 at the top, orbicular, with different elevations, and terminating 

 in a sharp reflexed point. 



A fine tall tree, growing 100 feet high, found in Real del 

 Monte, in Mexico, at an elevation of 8,000 feet, and about 

 Guajimalapa at more than 10,000 feet of elevation. (? Pinus lei- 

 ophylla.) 



No. 104. Pinus elegans, Roezl, the Elegant Mexican Pine. 

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



Leaves, in fives, three-edged, and eleven inches long ', sheaths, 

 one inch and a quarter long, and silky. Cones, recurved, four 

 inches long, and rather more than an inch in diameter at the widest 

 part. Scales, thickened at the base, very irregularly shaped, 

 and with a slight ridge across the extremity ; protuberance, 

 seldom depressed in the centre. 



A magnificent tree, growing from ninety to a hundred feet 

 high, with an elegant appearance ; found on the mountains near 

 the Volcano of Popocatepetl, in Mexico, at an elevation of 9,000 

 feet. 



No. 105. Pinus Endlichebiana, Roezl, Endlicher's Mexican 



Pine. 

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

 Leaves, in fives, six inches long, stiff, and three-edged ; 

 sheaths, three quarters of an inch long. Cones, a little bent, 

 five inches long, and one inch and three quarters broad. Scales, 

 irregularly shaped ; protuberance, elevated. This kind resem- 

 bles Pinus robusta, but differs in its cones and in its leaves being 

 less tufted. 



