356 PINUS PENTAPHYLLA. 



Pinus Teocote. 



Schlechtendal in Liimaea, V. 76 (1831). Lambert, Genus Pinus, ed. II. Vol. III. 

 145, t. 62. Loudon, Arb. et Frat. Brit. IV. 2266, with tigs. Endlicher, Synops. 

 Conif. 156. Gordon, Pinet. ed. II. 287. 



A tall tree, said to attain a height of 80 100 feet ; as seen by 

 Pi-ingle on the mountains of Oaxaca at 9,000 feet elevation where it 

 forms pure forests of considerable extent, it is a slender tree of 

 medium size.* It was discovered about the same time as Pinus patula- 

 by Schiede and Deppe, from whose herbarium specimens it was 

 described and figured by Mr. Lambert who also had a living plant at 

 Boy ton at the date of the publication of London's "Arboretum"; it 

 is chiefly distinguished from P. patula by its much shorter leaves and 

 smaller cones. 



Pinus pentaphylla. 



A tall tree, 70 80 or more feet high. Bark of trunk fissured into 

 thin plates averaging 4 5 inches long and 2 3 inches broad, reddish 

 brown with a whitish surface. Branches with their ramifications and 

 also the leaves as in Pinus parviflora but longer and stouter. 

 Staminate flowers shortly stipitate, sub-cylindric, about 0*4 inch long, 

 reddish at the apex. Cones pendent, sub-sessile, sub-cylindric, slightly 

 tapering from beyond the middle to the apex, 3 3 '5 inches long and 

 1 inch in diameter at the broadest ; scales broadly obovate or 

 suborbicular, nearly flat with a creimlate margin and striated 

 longitudinally, about an inch long and somewhat less broad. Seed' 

 wing rhombic, 0'75 inch long. 



Pinus pentaphylla, Mayr, Abiet. Jap. Reiclies, 78, t. 6, fig. 20 (1890). Sargent, 

 For. Fl. Jap. 80. Pinus parviflora in part, of some authors. 



Eng. Japanese Strobus Pine. Germ. Japanische Weymouthskiefer. Jap. Goyo- 

 niatsu. 



Pinus pentaphylla, like P. parviflora, is endemic in Japan, taking the 

 place of the latter north of the 38th parallel of north 

 latitude and in Yeso, but it is nowhere abundant. It is cultivated 

 in Japanese gardens under many names and in various forms, and 

 often confused with P. parviflora to which it has much resemblance, 

 so much, indeed, that all the earlier European botanists who visited 

 Japan mistook it for that species. It has recently been specifically 

 distinguished and figured by Dr. Heinrich Mayr of the Forest 

 Department, Munieh,f who has conclusively shown that it is a 

 Strobus, not a Cembra Pine, a fact confirmed by a cone brought 

 home by the late John Gould Veitch and still preserved in the 

 Yeitchian collection. A few seeds were introduced by Mr. Maries 

 in 1879, and plants were subsequently distributed from the 

 Coombe Wood nursery as P. parviflora, but their destination is now 

 unknown. 



* Garden and Forest, IX. 102. f Abietineen des J&panischen Reiclies, loc. ciL 



