LXXVII. CONI'I-EU/E: pi^nus. 



999 



Nothing 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 

 Avas discovered by Captain P. Gerai'd, of the Bengal 

 Kative Infantry; and named in commemoration of him 

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

 l)r. Waliich and others, at diiferent times ; though they 

 are often contounded with those of P. longifolia. The 

 plant named P. Gerard;?ia in the Horticultural Society's 

 Garden has persistent sheaths, and long slender leaves ; 

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

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

 are plants of the true P. GerardM?i in the Clapton 

 Nursery, under its S3'nonyme of P. Nehsa. 



i 37. P. sine'nsis Lamb. The Chinese Pine. 



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

 fKesiyn Koyle, a native of Nepal. See (iard. Mag., 1840, 



1S7I. P. Gerardmnn. 



very slender, 

 at the apex, 



Jdentification. 

 Synonyme. P 



p. 8. P. nepaleqsis "Pin. Wob. ; P.Cavendish?a Hort 

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



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



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



Lambert, and the bud from Redleaf. 



Sj^ec. Char., ^c. Leaves in threes, rarely in twos, 

 JNIale catkins short. Cones ovate ; scales truncate 

 without any point. Branches tubercled. Leaves squarrose, with 

 stipular scales ; twin, or in threes, slender, spreading, sen.icylin- 

 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 fig. 1872.), in the 

 Redleaf specimen, from .5-%- in. to -j^in. in length, and about the 

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

 brownish colour, and wholly without resin. Leaves from Sin. to 

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

 colour as those of P. P'mea. Sheaths 



1S72. 



from 2. in. to 4 in. k 



brownis 



slightly membranaceous, and rigid 



large tree. China. Introd.1829 

 ^^* or before, and requiring pro- 

 tection in England in ver 

 severe winters. 



\filZ. P s:iiw:sls. 



1S74. P. sinensis. 



3s 4 



