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and pendulous, from four to five inches long, and two inches 

 and a half broad at the base, straight, and tapering to a point, 

 with a foot-stalk nearly one inch in length, and with from 

 twelve to sixteen rows of scales in each, which are much 

 elevated, slightly hooked, and nearly all of a size, but rather 

 smaller towards the extremities, and measure about half an 

 inch across. Each scale contains two very small seeds, with 

 wings nearly an inch in length. 



It was first discovered by Hartweg on the eastern declivity 

 of the Mountain of Orizaba, in Mexico, at the same elevation 

 (10,000 feet) as P. cembroides, growing in company with that 

 species and a bushy Juniper ; forming a small tree about 30 

 feet high, with a very graceful foliage and habit, but not abun- 

 dant. It ripens its seeds in November, and is not quite hardy, 

 as a very severe winter in England kills it. 



No. 84. Pinus parviflora, Siebold, the Small (male) Flowered 



Japan Pine. 

 Syn. Pinus Cembra, Thunberg, not Linnceus. 

 Leaves in fives, very glaucous on both faces, stiff, pointed, 

 slender, and mostly bent or twisted, convex, or fiat on the 

 back, with the inner face stoutly keeled, three-edged, denticu- 

 lated on the back of the keel, and varying in length on the 

 same shoot; from three- quarters of an inch to two inches 

 in length, and remaining on the branches for three years. 

 Sheaths composed of long membranaceous scales, which soon 

 fall off and leave the base of the leaves naked, jutting out, and 

 not decurrent. Male catkins very small, not more than three 

 or four lines long, conical, or egg-shaped, and in clusters round 

 the ends of the previous shoots. Branches spreading, horizontal, 

 slender, and covered with smooth ashy-gray bark ; lateral 

 ones thickly covered with short, stiff, curved, glaucous leaves. 

 Cones oval or elliptic, blunt at the ends, two inches and a 

 quarter long, and composed of about twenty scales. Scales 

 wedge-shaped, large, somewhat orbicular at the base, and 

 rounded above, leathery, or almost woody, concave, and of a 



