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No. 81. Pinus Occidentals, Swartz, the West India Pine. 



Leaves in fives, bright green, from five to six inches long, 

 rather angular, sharp-pointed, slender, but stiff, rather distant 

 on the shoots, a little rough at the edges, and with a lanceolate, 

 sharp-pointed scale, half an inch long, growing at their base. 

 Sheaths smooth, entire, more than half an inch long, and per- 

 sistent. Cones rather pendulous, three inches and a half long, 

 and one inch and a half broad at the widest part, which is near 

 the base ; conical, and with rather a long foot-stalk, covered 

 with sharp-pointed scales, like those growing at the base of the 

 foliage. Scales swelled or thickened at their upper extremity, 

 half an inch broad, and angular, with a scar on the summit, 

 terminated b}^ a small, straight, but very slender point ; the 

 scales are nearly all of a size, except a few near the base and 

 the apex. Seeds very small, with short, narrow wings. 



A small tree, with the appearance of the Aleppo Pine (P. 

 Halepensis), thin of foliage. 



It is a native of St. Domingo and Cuba, found plentiful in 

 the quarter of Saint Suzanne, in St. Domingo, growing to the 

 height of from twenty-five to thirty feet, and is easily distin- 

 guished by its lance-shaped scales at the base of each bundle 

 of leaves on the younger shoots. 



It is tender, and distinct from the Pine called " Occiclentalis," 

 from Mexico. 



No. 82. Pinus oocarpa, Schiede, the Egg-coned Pine. 

 Leaves in fives, from eight to ten inches long, slender, sharp- 

 pointed, rather pendulous, and slightly angular, bright-green, 

 and thickly set on the younger branches. Sheaths long, rather 

 smooth, and persistent. Shoots rather slender, and pendulous 

 at the extremities. Cones egg-shaped, solitary, broadest near 

 the base, and tapering to a point, three inches and a half long, 

 and two inches and a half broad near the base, with a very 

 hard, shining surface of a pale, glossy, yellow colour, free from 

 resinous matter, and with rather a long foot-stalk. Scales de- 

 pressed, or bluntly pyramidal, three-quarters of an inch wide, 

 with elevated bands from the centre to the corners, particularly 



