CUBAN PINE; SWAMP PINE (Pinus Caribcea, Morelet). 

 80 to 120 feet. Tall, tapering trunk and dense, round head of 

 heavy limbs. Bark brown, scaly, showing orange in the fur- 

 rows between broad plates. Wood heavy, very hard, resin- 

 ous, coarse, dark orange with pale, thick sapwood. Yields 

 turpentine. L T ses of wood same as longleaf pine. Leaves 



e n curve, purps spes, crowe near ps o 

 twigs; pistillate oval cones, clustered, pinkish, in 3's, \ inch 

 long. , Fruits tapering cones, 3 to 6 inches long, red-brown, 

 the thin scales armed with small, curved prickles; seeds 

 mottled, winged. Dist. : Coast plain, South Carolina to Florida 

 and Louisiana; also Bahamas and the Antilles, Central 

 America. 



