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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



PART III. 



2117 



App. i. Species of Pine having Two Leaves in a Sheath, which 

 we cannot with certainty refer to any of the preceding Sections. 



P. Massoniana Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., 1. t. 8., N. Du Ham., 5. p. 243., Wittd. Sp. Pi., 4. p. 497., 

 IMWS. Man., p. 348. ; ? P. nepalensis Cels. Leaves in pairs, very long, and slender ; sheaths short' 

 Crest of the anthers dentate-lacerate. (Lamb.} Bud apparently like that of P. sinensis. Leaves 

 6 in. long, slender; sheaths Jin. long, white, membranaceous, with brown scales at the base. Male 

 catkins numerous, fin. long. A tree, a native of China, and probably identical with P. sinensis. 

 Mr. Lambert's plate is from a specimen in the Banksian herbarium, brought by Mr. Francis Massoii 

 from the Cape of Good Hope, where it was raised from seeds which had been sent from China 

 Neither cones, seeds, nor living plants, have yet been introduced under the name of P. Masson<Jna 

 but Mr. Lawson observes, " on comparing a plant, received from M. Cols, nurseryman, Paris, under 

 the name of P. nepalensis, with Mr. Lambert's figure and description of I'. Mnssonidna, there seems 

 little doubt but they are the same. In habit of growth and general appearance it resembles P. lon- 

 gif6lia, but differs in having only two leaves in each sheath, whereas the latter has three. The 

 plant, however, above referred to, has not attained sufficient size to show whether its leaves will 

 become so pendulous as those of the long-leaved East In- 

 dian pine." There is a plant of P. nepalensis in the pine- 

 turn at Haddo House, of which the Earl of Aberdeen 

 has sent us a specimen, but the leaves are in threes. 

 P. Massom'iww Professor Don considers, as we have.seen 

 in p. 2218., nothing more than P. Pinaster ; and, with 

 respect to the P. nepalensis received from Lord Aber- 

 deen, it is probably P. longifblia. 



Pinus sp., from Nepal. Some cones of a pine have 

 been kindly sent us by Mr. Paxton, which were brought 

 home from the East Indies in 1837, by a collector sent 

 out by His Grace the Duke of Devonshire. The cones 

 resemble those of P. Pinaster in the termination of 

 their scales, but they are much smaller ; the largest is 

 2 in. long, and 2 in. broad ; and the smaller ones, 

 and the seeds and their wings, resemble Jig. 2117. No 

 leaves were brought home ; but Mr. Paxton informs 

 us that the general appearance of the tree, on its native 

 hills, was like that of an old, stunted, weatherbeaten 

 Scotch pine; it having, like that tree, dark heavy fo- 

 liage, rather dense. All the trees the collector saw had 

 that character, except one or two which were growing 

 more freely, and had more the appearance of cedars of 

 Lebanon ; only that the branches did not spread so 

 much at bottom; though they had the habit of that 

 tree, the head tapering on every side, from the extre- 

 mity of the bottom branches upwards to a point The 

 height to which the tree grows is estimated at between 

 30 ft. and 40 ft. As the cones bear so close a resemblance 

 in their scales to those of P. Pin&ster and P. Pinea, 

 we have noticed them in this Appendix, rather than 

 under any of the sections of 3 or 4-leaved pines, to 

 which, however, the species may ultimately be found 

 to belong. As the seeds are fresh, young plants will soon be raised ; and these, in a few years, will 

 enable us to decide at least to what section the tree belongs. 



Sect. ii. Terndta. Leaves 3 in a Sheath. 



A. Cones hardly so long as the Leaves ; the Scales with Prickles. 



v. Tec* da. 



Sect. Char. Leaves 3 in a sheath, longer than the cones. Cones in twos, threes, 

 or clusters, with the scales prickly. The trunk and larger branches throw 

 out tufts of foliage and abortive shoots, even in the thickest parts, and in 

 every stage of the tree's growth. Natives of North America. The kinds 

 brought together in this section, though generally considered species, may, 

 possibly, be only varieties. Though the pines belonging to this division are 

 easily known by the cones, and even by the leaves and buds, when the trees 

 are mature and seen together; yet we have found none so difficult to deter- 

 mine by their leaves and buds, when the plants are young. In general, the 

 leaves of P. Tae'da are longer, stronger, and of a more glaucous hue ; and its 

 buds are larger than those of any other kind in the section. P. rfgida has 

 shorter leaves, fewer of them, and they are less glaucous; and the buds are 

 long, cylindrical, and blunt-pointed. P. serotina resembles P. rfgida in the 

 leaves, but these are still fewer, and the cones are egg-shaped. The P. 

 variabilis of Lambert, according to his figure, is different from any of these, 

 and in no way resembles the P. mitis of Michaux, of which it is said to be a 

 synonyme. The P. mitis of Michaux is known with certainty at first sight, by 

 its numerous, thickly set, and slender, short leaves ; and, above all, by the 



