Illustrations of Conifer**. 41 



PIXU8 UEUKXMH (Juwjhn and Dt Vriet). 



Plant. lnd. Bat. Or. S, i. 2, (1SU). 

 Hooker, Fl. Brit. India, V. p. Wt (1088). 

 GamUt, Manual Indian Timber*, 710 (IMS). 

 Brandu, Indian Tru, 091 (1906). 



A tree attaining in Banna a height of 50 to 60 feet, and in Sumatra 

 00 to 100 feet, with a trunk occasionally 15 feet in girth. Bark thick 

 and rough- Branches forming a flat umbrella-like crown, resembling 

 that of Pinwt Pinea. 



Leave* in two*, slender, serrulate, semi -terete in section, 8 to 10 

 inches long, with a persistent fimbriate sheath about J inch long; 



Cones oroid-oblong, about three inches long ; scales with a 

 thickened, 4- to 5-angled, pyramidal apophysis, which is transversely 

 ridded. 



iVftu* Merkwrii ocean in Burma in the hill-forests of the Khan 

 States, Martaban and Tenasserim, between 500 and 3,500 feet alti- 

 tude; and also in Sumatra, Cochin China, and the Philippine Islands, 

 It is unknown in cultivation in England. 



The illustration represents a native specimen from Pin , 

 photographed in the Kew Herbarium. 



