1086 The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland 



Cornwall, and of the south of Ireland, where there are many fine specimens. One 

 at Carclew (Plate 285) measured, in 1908, 61 ft. in height and 6 ft. 3 in. in girth. 

 At Luscombe Castle, Dawlish, a tree 55 ft. by 6 ft. 3 in. was bearing cones 

 abundantly when I saw it in 1908. At Tregrehan, a tree, 1 42 ft. by 8 ft. in 1898, 

 was 60 yards round the branches. At Bicton, Mr. A. B. Jackson measured in 

 1908 a tree 48 ft. high, dividing at 2 ft. from the ground into two stems, 5 ft. 

 11 in., and 7 ft. 5 in. in girth. At Pencarrow, Lamorran, and Menabilly, I have 

 seen other specimens of less dimensions. At Fota, near Queenstown, a branchy 

 tree, with a short bole of 8 ft. dividing into wide-spreading limbs, measured in 1908, 

 63 ft high by 1 1 ft. in girth. Many of the branches had been broken by previous 

 gales. This tree was planted in 1847. (H. J. E.) 



PINUS TEOCOTE 



Pinus Teocote, 2 Schlechtendal et Chamisso, in Linnaa, v. 76 (1830); Lambert, Genus Pinus, i. 37, 

 t. 20 (1832); Loudon, Arb. et Frut. Brit. iv. 2266 (1838), and Encycl. Trees, 991 (1842); 

 Kent, Veitch's Man. Conif. 356 (1900); Masters, mjourn. Linn. Soc. (Bot.) xxxv. 598 (1904); 

 Shaw, Pines of Mexico, 16, t. ix. (1909). 



A tree, attaining 90 ft. high in Mexico, with bark fissured into scaly plates. 

 Young branchlets glabrous, glaucous, pale brown ; the epidermis of the decurrent 

 pulvini peeling off in the second and third year. Buds cylindric-conic, obtuse, about 

 f in. long, resinous ; scales with tips free, interlaced at their bases by white marginal 

 fimbriae. 



Leaves in threes, persistent three years, 4 to 8 in. long, ^ in. broad, spreading, 

 rigid, sharp-pointed, serrulate, with stomatic lines on the three surfaces ; resin-canals 

 median ; basal sheath about an inch long. 



Cones sub-terminal, rarely lateral, single or in pairs, spreading or reflexed, 

 short-stalked, opening when ripe, and falling soon afterwards, ovoid -cylindrical, 

 about 2\ in. long, dull brown or slightly shining ; scales numerous, f in. long, \ in. 

 broad ; apophysis thickened at the margin, slightly raised, transversely ridged ; umbo 

 usually depressed and ashy-grey, with a minute, straight, often obsolete prickle. 

 Seed small, with a narrow wing. 



Var. macrocarpa, Shaw, Pines of Mexico, 17, t. x. (1909). 



Pinus leiophylla, Bentham, PI. Hartw. 58 (1842) (in part). 



Leaves in threes, fours, or fives. Cones considerably larger than in the type, 

 and illustrated by Lambert's plate. Recorded from a few localities in Mexico, 

 Chiapas, and Tlaxcala. 



P. Teocote, according to Shaw, grows at temperate altitudes in the southern, 

 central, western, and north-western Sierras of Mexico, associated with P. leiophylla, 



1 This tree is figured in Gard. Chroti. xxiii. 108, fig. 22 (1885). Fig. 20 represents a cone from a Carclew tree. Three 

 trees are mentioned as existing at Carclew in 1885, measuring 30 ft. by 6 ft., 40 ft. by 6J ft., and 30 ft. by 5 ft., the girths 

 being taken at three feet from the ground. One of these has since been destroyed by lightning. The dimensions of other 

 trees in 1885 were : Lamorran, 24J ft. by 3 ft. 10 in. ; Pencarrow, 43 ft. by 7 ft. 3 in. ; and Bicton, 36 ft. in height. 



8 According to Shaw, the word " ocote," from which the tree derives its name, signifies in Mexico, pitch pines and their 

 products. Small bundles of firewood offered for sale in the markets of the cities are also called " ocote." 





