PINUS 



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is of thin, ungainly habit ; its leaves (in pairs) are 4 to 6 ins. long, its young 

 shoots are green, and more flexible than those of halepcnsis ; finally, its cones 

 point forwards instead of backwards, and are thicker (2 ins.) at the base. 

 It is rather lacking in attractive qualities, being thin in branch and leaf 

 and inferior in this respect to halepensis. It is said to grow 80 ft. high, 

 and is a native of S.E. Europe (not of the Pyrenees, as a name under which 

 it is frequently grown would imply), with much the same general distribution 

 as 1'. h.ilcpensis, except that it reaches not farther west than Southern 

 Italy. 



PINUS BRLTIA. 



P. BUNGEANA, Zuccarim. BUNGE'S PINE, LACE-BARK PINE. 



(Bot. Mag., t. 8240.) 



A tree sometimes forming a rounded, bushy head, but frequently 

 branching near the ground and forming several stems which grow erect 

 to a height occasionally of 80 to 100 ft. The bark is smooth and peels 

 the trunk like that of a plane ; in young specimens it is brown, but 

 in old ones becomes quite white and gives to this pine its most remarkable 

 character. Young shoots perfectly smooth, shining, greyish green. Leaves 

 in threes, persisting four or five years, about 3 ins. long, two-edged, stiff, 

 sharply pointed, bright green, very minutely toothed, marked all round 

 with faint stomatic lines ; leaf-sheath J to f in. long, soon falling. Cones 

 2 to 2* ins. long, ji to \\ ins. wide, shortly stalked, the scales terminated 

 by a decurved, triangular spine ; seeds \ in. long, without wings. 



Native of China; first seen by Dr Bunge in 1831 in the environs of 



