Pinus.'] CXLIV. CONIFERS. (J. D. Hooker.) 653 



Wall. Cat. 6062. P. Latteri, Mason in Journ. As. Soc. Seng, xviii. (1849) 

 74, and Burma, 545; Kurz in Flora, 1872, 264. 



MABTABAN and UPPER TENASSEEIM, alt. 500-2500 fr., Kurz. TENASSEBIM; on 

 Thoungyong, alt. 3-4000 ft., Riley. DISTEIB. Sumatra, Borneo. 



A tree, 50-60 ft. in Burma (60-100 ft. in Sumatra). Leaves quite smooth, slender ; 

 sheaths J in. long, fimbriate. Cones about 3 in., erect, scales with a pyramidal boss, and 

 small transverse rough scar. Kurz describes the tips of the cone scales as " notzonate, 

 with a depressed umbonate tubercle." Parlatore adds " radiation rugose." 



9. CEDRUS, Loud. 



Large trees, evergreen. Leaves triquetrous, in dense clusters, acicular, 

 jointed near the base. Cone of Pinus, but scales deciduous, leaving a 

 columnar axis. Species 1, with three marked forms, a Himalayan, an 

 Oriental, and an Algerian. 



C. Libani, Barrel., var. DEODARA, Hook.f. Himal. Journ. i. 257, and 

 in Nat. Hist. Rev. (1861) ii. t. 1-3 ; branches and leader with drooping 

 tips, leaves 1-1^ in., cones oblong, scales broadly flabellately triangular. 

 0. Deodara, Loud. Arb. Brit. iv. 2428, f. 2283-2286 ; Forbes Pinet. Wob. 

 149, t. 48, 49 ; Parlat. in DC. Prodr. xvi. ii. 408 ; Brand. For. Fl. 516 ; 

 Cleghorn Pines of N. W. Himal. 1. 1 ; G-jmble Man. Ind. Timb. 400 Boiss. 

 Fl. Orient, v. 699. Abies Deodara, Lindl. in Penny Cyclop. 34. Pinus 

 Deodara, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 651; Lamb. Pin. Ed. 2, 68, t. 42; Ed. 3, 93, 

 t. 52 ; Endl. Conif. 135 ; Antoine Conif. 9, t. 22, f. 2 ; Griff. Ic. PL Asiat. 

 t. 364 ; Wall. Cat. 6060 (by error 5060). 



N.W. HIMALAYA, from Kumaon westwards, alt. 3500-12,000 ft. DISTBIB. 

 Affghanistan. 



A -lofty robust tree, attaining 250 ft., with a girth of trunk 36 ft., and 600 years' 

 age ; bark thick, furrowed vertically and cracked transversely. Leaves usually 

 glaucous green, acute, persistent for 3-5 years ; sheaths very short. Cones 4-5 by 

 3-4 in., erect, top rounded ; scales very numerous, margin thin. Seeds % in. long ; 

 wing longer, broadly triangular with rounded sides. 



10. PICEA. Link. 



Large evergreen trees. Leaves scattered, acicular, jointed at the base. 

 Cones cylindric, pendulous, or erect when young, scales thin, not thickened 

 at the tip, persistent. Species 12, N. Temperate and Arctic. 



P. IVTorinda, Link, in Linnaa, xv. 522; branchlets slender pendulous 

 glabrous, leaves 1-1 1 .in. acicular tetragonous pungent, cones 4-6 in., 

 scales broadly ovate or subreniform from a cuneate base, outer margin 

 rounded, seeds oblong with a broad spathulate wing. A. Smithiana, Forbes 

 Pinet. Woburn. 103, t. 30 ; Loud. Arbor et. iv. 2317,.f. 2229 ; Brand. For. Fl. 

 525; Cleghorn Pines of N.W. Himal. t. 5; Gamble Man. Ind. Timb. 407. P. 

 Khutrow, Carr. Conif. 258. Abies spinulosa, Griff. Journ. 259 ; Itin. 

 Notes 145, No. 694 ; Ic. PI. Asiat. t. 363. Pinus Smithiana, Lamb. Pin. iii. 

 t. 88 ; Wall. PI. As. Rar. iii. 24, t. 246; Cat. 6063; Parlat. in DC. Prodr. 

 xvi. ii. 416. P. Kutrow, Royle III. 353, t. 84, f. 1 ; Endl. Conif. 122. 



TEMPEEATE HIMALAYA ; throughout the range at elevations of 6-11,000 ft. 

 DISTEIB. Affghanistan. 



A conical tree, attaining 150ft., with a trunk 21 ft. ; branches whorled, spreading ; 



