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slightly bending downwards, and on short, slender foot-stalks. 

 Scales projecting, pyramidal, regularly recurved at the points, 

 one inch and a quarter broad, and nearly one inch long, slightly 

 convex at the extremities, thickest on the summit, woody, and 

 of a dark, glossy brown colour. Seeds small, with short, 

 narrow wings half an inch long, and a quarter of an inch broad 

 in the middle. 



A very large tree, growing 100 feet high, found on the island 

 of Sumatra, on the mountains of Tanna-Huring and Tobah, at 

 an elevation of from 3000 to 4000 feet above the sea. It is 

 also found in Cochin-China, in Borneo, and probably in the 

 other islands in the Indian Archipelago. 



It is quite tender. 



No. 13. Pinus mitis, Michaux, the Soft-leaved or Yellow Pine. 



Syn. Pinus variabilis, Pursh. 



Tasda variabilis, Michaux. 

 echinata, Miller, not Lambert. 

 lutea, Loddiges. 

 Roylei, Lindley. 

 intermedia, Fischer. 



Leaves in twos, but not unfrequently in threes, pale, yellowish 

 green, rather spreading, from two to two and a half inches in 

 length, rather broad, stiff, blunt-pointed, partially twisted, 

 channelled on the upper surface, and light, glaucous green. 

 Sheaths half an inch long on the young leaves, but very short 

 on the adult ones, ragged or torn, and partially persistent. 

 Branches spreading on the lower part of the trunk, but less 

 divergent as they approach the head of the tree, so as to form 

 the summit into a regular pyramid ; the young shoots are of a 

 violet glaucous colour, and the buds slightly resinous. Cones 

 small, two and a half inches in length, and one inch broad in 

 the middle, of a grayish brown colour, oblong- conical, slightly 

 tapering to the base, and rather blunt-pointed, solitary, and 

 with a short, stout foot-stalk. Scales small, half an inch wide 

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