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ARBORETUM ET FRUT1CETUM BRITANNICUM, 



The figure of the cone of P. Teocote, in Art). 

 Brit., 1st edit. p. 2266., does not exactly agree 

 with the cones sent home by Hartweg, and 

 therefore w.e have omitted it 

 in this abridgement. 



Branchlets very leafy, with 

 a persistent epidermis. Buds 

 imbricated, with lanceolate, 

 acuminate, ciliate, and torn 

 scales. Leaves in threes, 

 erect, rigid, compressed, 



18. r >2. P Teocbte. 



acute, tortuous ; light green, 

 bicanaliculate above, slightly 

 convex beneath, very smooth ; 

 the intermediate slightly pro- 

 minent angle, and the mar- 

 gins, crenulated, scabrous. 

 Sheaths cylindrical, about 

 1 in. in length, persistent, 

 torn on the margin. Cones 

 ovate-oblong, drooping, and 

 smoothish, scarcely 3 in. 

 long. Scales dilated at the 



apex, somewhat trapezoidal, much depressed ; in the young cones always 

 mutic. (Lamb.) This, till lately, was a very rare species ; there having been 

 no plants of it either at Dropmore or in the Horticultural Society's Garden. 

 Indeed, so far as we are aware, it existed in no collection in Britain, but 

 that of Mr. Lambert at Boy ton, till 1840. 



1 32. P. PA'TULA Schiede et Deppe MSS. The spread'mg-leaved Pine. 



Identification. Lamb. Pin., ed. 1., t. 19. ; Penny Cyc., vol. 18. 



Engravings. Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., 1. 1. 19. ; and figs. 1855. and 1856., from Mr. Lambert's figure. 



Spec. Char., $c. Leaves in threes, very slender, 2-channeled, spreading ; sheaths 

 about 1 in. long. Cones ovate-oblong, polished. Branchlets covered with 

 a smooth, lead- coloured, and persistent epidermis. Scales of the bud 

 lanceolate, acuminate, carinate, rigid, thread-like, and ciliate. Leaves in 

 threes, slender, recurved and spreading ; soft, light green ; deeply bicana- 

 liculate above, convex beneath, marked with many dotted lines ; 6 in. to 

 9 in. long ; the intermediate somewhat prominent angle, and the margins, 

 sharply serrated, scabrous. Sheaths cylindrical, 1, in. to l in. long. Apex 

 and margin of the scales thread-like and ciliated. Cones ovate-oblong, 



