230 PINUS, OR 



colour, and with the scales less elevated, but more drawn to a 

 flattened pyramid. 



It is a much larger and taller tree than the species, growing 

 upwards of 100 feet high, but at a much lower elevation than 

 the species. 



No. 46. Pinus Pinceana, Gordon, Mr. Pince's Mexican Pine. 



Leaves in threes, but frequently in twos, very slender, three- 

 edged, straight, and rather blunt-pointed; from three to four 

 inches long, quite entire on the margins, and of a slightly 

 glaucous green colour. Sheaths scaly, and soon falling off. 

 Branches long, slender, flexible, and pendulous ; branchlets 

 slender, long, and drooping. Cones from three to three inches 

 and a half long, and one inch and a half broad a little above 

 the base, conical, blunt-pointed, of a glossy brown colour, and 

 on rather stout foot-stalks. Scales irregularly shaped, some- 

 what four-sided, rounded on the upper margin, and largest one- 

 third from the base of the cone ; those nearest the base being 

 very much the smallest, more or less angular, and elevated, 

 with the outer side keeled, and much the longest, while those 

 along the middle of the cone are nearly flat or slightly elevated, 

 with a sharp transverse ridge across the centre, terminated in 

 the middle by a large oval projecting scar, a little hollow on 

 the top, and when young furnished with a broad spine. Seeds 

 very large, wingless, and more than half an inch long. 



A very handsome tree, growing 60 feet high, with long 

 weeping branches like those of the Weeping Willow, and 

 easily distinguished from all other Mexican pines on that 

 account. 



It was first discovered in 1844 by M. Gheisbreght, near the 

 Hacienda del Potrees, in the Eavine of Mestitlan, on the route 

 from Mexico to Tampico, and is No. 34 of M. Gheisbreght's 

 specimens. It was also found by Mr. Charles Ehrenberg' (to 

 whom I am indebted for my specimens, and account of the 

 tree), upon a mountain along the road to the city of Mexico, at 



