258 PiNTjs; OR 



A tree upwards of ninety feet high, found growing upon the 

 mountains about San-Rafael, in Mexico, at an elevation of 9,000 

 feet. 



M. Roezl describes a variety with longer leaves found in the 

 same locality. (? Pinus Russelliana.) 



No. 128. Pinus Paxtoni, RoezI, Sir Joseph Paxton's Mexican 



Pine. 

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



Leaves, in fives, slender, three-sided, and eight inches long; 

 sheaths, rather short, and silky. Cones, recurved, more than 

 six inches long, and one inch and three quarters in diameter in 

 the broadest part. Scales, rounded at the top, transversely 

 keeled across the middle, depressed in the centre ; protuberance, 

 almost level, with a small sharp point in the centre. 



A very handsome tree, upwards of 100 feet high, with long 

 spreading out branches ; found near Tomacoco, in Mexico, at 

 an elevation of 9,000 feet. 



No. 129. Pinus Planchoni, Roezl, Planchon's Pine. 

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



Leaves, in fives, ten inches long, and three-edged ; sheaths, 

 upwards of three quarters of an inch long. Cones, six inches 

 long, and one inch and three quarters in diameter. Scales, 

 transversely keeled, very much elevated, particularly at the 

 upper part of the cone, and depressed at the base, and of a 

 yellow-brown colour; protuberance, large, projecting and curved. 



This species is nearly related to Pinus Carrierei, but difiers 

 in its much shorter and stiffer leaves. It is found in the 

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

 (? Pinus macrophylla.) 



No. loO. Pinus prasina, Itoezl, the Bright-green Mexican Pine. 

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

 Leaves, in fives, slender, of a bright green, three-edged 

 straight, and from nine to ten inches long ; sheaths, whitish, 

 silky, and six lines long. Cones, cylindrical, from three to three 

 inches and a half long, and one inch and a half broad. Scales, some- 



