Illustrations of Conifers. 43 



PINUS TROPICALIS (Morelet). 

 Pmus Tethrocarpa (Shaw). 



Sargent, Trees and Shrubs, p. 149 (1903). 

 Gardeners' Chronicle, Vol. XXXVI. p. 98 (1904). 



A tree attaining a height of 50 to 60 feet with a girth of 6 feet. 

 Bark greyish, tinged with red, irregularly broken into large oblong 

 plates, with small closely appressed scales. Branches ascending and 

 forming an open rounded crown. Branchlets | to 1 inch thick, 

 covered with the crowded prominent bases of the primary leaves. 

 Leaves in twos, rarely in threes, rigid, serrate, 4 to 8 inches long. 



Mature cones shortly stalked, growing nearly at right angles to 

 the branch, *2\ to 3 inches long and about half as wide, rounded at 

 the base, tapering to the narrow apex ; orange - brown in colour, 

 usually early deciduous ; apophysis of the scale slightly corrugated 

 from the margin inwards, and transversely keeled with a small spine- 

 less umbo. 



Pinus tropicalis has a restricted distribution. It occurs in the 

 western province of Pinar del Rio, Cuba, and on the neighbouring 

 Isle of Pines, and is also found on the mainland in Florida. 



The specimen figured was obtained by Mr. Louis Bosanquet 

 from Fruitland Park, Florida. 



