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O.NU tiling is said respecting the timber of this tree; 

 but the seeds are eaten by the inhabitants of the lower 

 parts of India, in the southern countries. This species 

 was discovered by Captain P. Gerard, of the Bengal 

 Native Infantry ; and named in commemoration of him 

 by Dr. Wallich. Cones have been sent to England, by 

 Dr. Waliich and others, at different times ; though they 

 are often confounded with those of P. longifolia. The 

 plant named P. Gerardiana in the Horticultural Society's 

 Garden has persistent sheaths, anci long slender leaves; 

 and is, doubtless P. longifoiia ; and the same may be 

 said of a number of plants at Messrs. Loddiges's. There 

 are plants of the true P. Gerardiana in the Clapton 

 Nursery, under its syno.ume of P. Nebsa. 



1 37. P. SINE'NSIS Lamb. The Chinese Pine. 



Identification. Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., 1. t. 29. ; Pin. Wob.. p. 39. 

 Synunyme. P. fKesi-ya Royle, a native of Nepal. See Gard. Mag., 1840, 



p. 8. P. nepalensis Pin. Wob. ; P.Cavendishzoraa Hort. 

 Engravings. Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., 1. t. 29. ; Pin. Wob., t. 12. ; and our 



fig. 1873. to our usual scale, from a specimen of a tree at Kedleaf ; 



and figs. 1874. and 1872. of the natural size, the cone and leaves from 



Lambert, and the bud from Kedleat. 



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Spec. Char., &c. Leaves in threes, rarely in twos, very slender. 

 Male catkins short. Cones ovate ; scales truncate at the apex, 

 without any point. Branches tubercled. Leaves squarrose, with 

 stipular scales ; twin, or in threes, slender, spreading, semicylin- 

 drical, mucronated, serrulated ; grass green, 5 in. long ; sheaths 

 cylindrical, in. long. Male catkins numerous, somewhat verti- 

 cillate, i in. long. Cones with very short footstalks, ovate, 

 brownish, 2 in. long. Scales thick, woody, tetragonal at the apex, 

 flattened, truncate, mutic. (Lamb.) Buds (see Jig. 1872.), in the 

 Redleaf specimen, from T \in. to ^in. in length, and about the 

 same breadth ; bluntly pointed, with numerous fine scales of a 

 brownish colour, and wholly without resin. Leaves from 5 in. to 

 5iin. in length; three-sided, slender, straight, and about the same 

 colour as those of P. jPinea. Sheaths 

 from f in. to f in. long ; brownish, 

 slightly membranaceous, and rigid. A 

 large tree. China. Introd.1829, 

 or before, and requiring pro- 

 tection in England in very 

 severe winters. 



\?>;?i. P. sinensis. 



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