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It produces a valuable timber, but so hard as to resist the 

 plane. 



It is rather tender. 



No. 75. Pinus Lindleyana, Gordon, Dr. Lindley's Pine. 



Syn. Pinus Montezuma? Lindleyi, Loudon. 

 rudiSj Endlichev. 



Endlicheriana longifolia, Roezl. 



Richardiana, Roezl. 



robusta, Roezl. 



Decaisneana, Roezl. 



Leaves in fives, very robust, and sharp-pointed, nine inches 

 long, three-edged on the inner face, and rounded on the back ; 

 of a deep green, a little glaucous when young, and very thickly 

 placed on the young shoots ; older ones spreading or pendent, 

 younger ones ascending. Sheaths more than an inch lono- on 

 the young leaves, scaly, and a little wrinkled and jagged at 

 the ends ; older ones much torn, very short, rough, and loose. 

 Branches very robust, curved upwards at the ends, and nume- 

 rous ; lateral ones stout, short, and twisted. Buds large, 

 rather obtuse, and covered with close, light-brown, non-resinous 

 scales. Cones from six to seven inches long, and two inches 

 in diameter near the base, regularly conical, a little curved, and 

 tapering to a regular point. Scales numerous, small, three- 

 quarters of an inch across, regularly rhomboid, nearly Hat, or 

 slightly tuberculated on the top, or with a slightly-elevated 

 transverse ridge across the centre, a little sunken in the 

 middle, and furnished with a stout blunt prickle in the centre, 

 of a dark-brown colour. Seeds small, with rather lono- nar- 

 row wings. 



A superb tree, growing seventy or eighty feet high, with its 

 branches and leaves in tufts, and very robust, forming a beau- 

 tiful head, and one of the most elegant of Mexican Pines; 

 found upon Mount Ajusco, in Mexico, at an elevation of 10,000 

 or 11,000 feet. 



It is quite hardy, and very distinct from Pinus Montezunne. 



