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rather slender, regularly in whorls, spreading, numerous, and 

 covered with a glossy smooth grayish bark. Cones very long 

 and slender, being from 10 to 12 inches in length, and three 

 inches broad at the base, and tapering regularly to a sharp 

 point, which is slightly incurved towards the upper part, they 

 are full of resinous matter, and pendent from the extremities of 

 the top branchlets. Scales projecting at the ends, bent down- 

 wards, and recurved at the points, two inches long, dimi- 

 nishing to a point at the apex ; thin, wrinkled, lengthways, 

 standing free, and of a pale yellowish-brown colour. Seeds 

 Avith broad wino-s one inch long. 



A large tree, growing 100 feet high, and three or four feet 

 in diameter, with very much the appearance of the Weymouth 

 Pine (P. Strobus), found in the provinces of Chiapa and Oaxaca 

 in Mexico, particularly on the higher points of the Combre 

 Mountains in the Sierra of Oaxaca, and on the Mount Pelado 

 or bald-mountain. It is also very common on the mountains 

 of Quezaltenango, at an elevation of 8500 feet, and on the 

 neighbouring mountain of Santa Maria, where it is called 

 " Tablas" by the inhabitants, and "Ayacahuite" by the 

 Mexicans. It is also found on the higher peaks of the moun- 

 tains about Cosiquiriachi, in Northern Mexico, at an elevation 

 of 7000 or 8000 feet. 



Timber white and soft. 



It is tolerably hardy. 



No. 61. Pinus BALFOUittANA* Jeffrey, Dr. Balfour's Pine. 

 Syn. Pinus Parryana, Parlatore. 

 quadrifolia, Parry. 



Leaves mostly in fours, but sometimes in threes, fours, and 

 fives on the same shoot, very dense, short, stout, glaucous 

 below, and rigid ; curved inwards, blunt-pointed, quite entire, 

 convex on the back, concave on the inner face, resinous, and 



* A figure and description of this pine was first given in the Proceed- 

 ings of the Oregon Committee in 1854, under the name of P. Bal- 

 fouriana. 



