262 PINUS ; OR 



No. 138. PiNus EuMELiANA, Roezl, the Rumel Pine. 

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



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

 one inch long, and silky. Cones, slightly curved towards the 

 ends, five inches long, and nearly two inches in diameter. Scales, 

 thickened at the base, very smooth, elevated in the centre, and 

 depressed round the base ; protuberance rounded, with a small, 

 terminal sharp point. 



A tree from 90 to 100 feet high, with very large branches, 

 and few, but very compact leaves, found near San Rafael, in 

 Mexico, on the road to Zavaleta, at an elevation of 8,000 feet. 



No. 139. PiNUS San-Rafaeliana, Roezl, the San-Rafael Pine. 

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



Leaves, in fives, three-edged, very slender, curved, and from 

 eight to ten inches long ; sheaths, nearly an inch long, very 

 thin, and persistent. Cones, four inches long, one and a half 

 to two inches broad, and quite straight. Scales, irregularly 

 rhomboid, striated, a little elevated, with a slight transverse 

 line across the middle, closely inlaid, very firm, and much 

 smaller towards the base ; protuberance terminated with a small 

 sharp point. 



A superb tree, growing upwards of 100 feet high, and much 

 resembling, by its long and slender branches, and recurved 

 leaves, the Pinus patula, but differs in having its leaves more 

 tufted. 



It grows upon the descent from Aculco to San Rafael, in 

 Mexico, at an elevation of more than 10,000 feet. (? Pinus 

 patula.) 



No. 140. Pinus Soulangeana, Roezl, Soulange's Mexican 



Pine. 



(Discovered by M. Roezl in 1857.) 



Leaves, in fives, stiff", three-edged, ten or eleven inches long ; 



sheaths, one inch and a quarter long, and silky. Cones, five 



inches long, and two inches broad at the widest part, and 



