Agathis.'} CXLIV. CONIFERS. (J. I). Hooker.) 651 



oylindric-oblong. Fern, cone 1-2 in. diam., globose or ovoid ; scales broadly cuneate, 

 s in. across. Seeds % in. long, including the falcate decurved obtuse wing. 

 Dammar. 



8. PINUS, Linn. 



Evergreen monoecious trees. Leaves dimorphic, primary consisting of 

 small membranous scales, secondary linear in clusters of 2, 3, or 5 in the 

 axils of the primary; clusters girt at the base by a sheath of hyaline scales. 

 Male fl. spicate ; staminal column ovoid oblong or cylindric ; anthers in 

 many series, shortly stipitate ; cells 2 ; connective produced at the tip. Fern. 

 cones globose or ovoid, bracts spirally imbricate; ovuliferous scale much larger 

 than the bracts ; ovules 2, at the base of. the scale, reflexed. Ripe cone ovoid 

 or oblong, bracts obsolete or small ; scales persistent, formed of the enlarged 

 thickened usually woody ovuliferous scales the tips of which are often 

 square and with a boss. Seeds 2, reversed, usually winged, the wing 

 formed by the adhesion of the hard testa to a thin separable layer of the 

 scale; cotyledons 2 or more. Species 70, confined to the Northern Hemi- 

 sphere, very rare in its tropics. 



Finns Hoyleana, Jameson in Journ. Hort. Soc. Lond. ix. 52, with a woodcut 

 (Parlatore in DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 390), a species which on the authority of Royle is 

 a native of the Nepal Himalaya, alt. 8-10,000 ft., is referred by Gordon (Pinetum 

 Ed. 2, 170) to P. vnitis of N. America, and if it came from Nepal was no doubt from 

 the Residency Garden. P. nepalensis, Royle (P. Latteri, Madden mss.), is P. 

 Pinaster, also no doubt from the Residency Garden. P. nepalensis, Forbes, Pinet. 

 Woburn. 34, referred by Endlicher to P. sinensis, and by Parlatore 1. c. to P. Kasya, 

 is known only from Forbes's insufficient description, which states that it is a very 

 tender species, a native of Nepal, procured for Messrs. Lawson of Edinburgh, with 

 leaves in pairs, occasionally in threes or fours, glaucous when young, green when old. 

 Neither flower nor fruit fire known ; and it is not worth further notice. Wallich's 

 " Pinus No. 7278 an P. Pinea," from specimens cultivated in Nepal or Kumaon, is 

 one of above. 



* Leaves in clusters of 5-8. 



]. P. excelsa, Wall. PI. As* Rar. iii. t. 201; Cat. 6059 (by . error 

 H059) ; leaves 4-8 in. slender drooping, sheaths and primary leaves 

 deciduous, cones peduncled cylindric pendulous, scales rhomboidly ovate 

 hardly thickened at the rounded apex, seeds oblong, wing subfalcate 

 obliquely truncate. Endl. Conif. 145 ; Parlat. in DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 404 ; 

 Griff. NotuL iv. 18 (Itin. Notes 123, No. 398) ; Ic. PI. Asiat. 366 ; JSrand. 

 For. Fl. 510 ; Clegliorn Pines of N. W. Himal. t. 2 ; Gamble Man. Ind. 

 Timb. 398 ; Lamb. Pin. Ed. 2, 40, t. 26. P. pendula, Griff. Journ. 211, &c. 

 P. Griffith!!, McClelland in Griff. Notul. iv. 17 (Itin. Notes 145, No. 21 P) ; 

 Ic. PL Asiat. t. 365. 



TEMPERATE HIMALAYA, alt. 6-12,500 ft. (absent in Central and N.W. Kumaon 

 and in Sikkim). DISTKIB. Afghanistan, Macedonia? 



A lofty symmetrical tree, attaining 150 ft. Leaves filiform, triquetrous, grey- or 

 blue-green, margins serrulate, white on two of the faces, falling in the second or 

 third year; sheaths f in., wholly deciduous, entire. Male spikes short cylindric- 

 obloug. Cone 6-10 in. ; scales concave. Seeds about 1 in., cotyledons usually 9. 

 The P. Pence of Macedonia is hardly distinguishable by definable character in a dry 

 state. P. Griffithii, M'Clelland, is founded on Griffith's drawing of the ripe cone of 

 P. excelsa. 



