2272 



AKUOKETUM AND FK UTICKTUJM, 



I'AKT III. 



Spec. Ctiar., %c. Leaves in fives, slender ; sheaths 

 persistent. Cones conical, half the length of the 

 leaves ; scales thickened at the apex, with very 

 small mucros. (Lois.} The following character 

 of thi? pine is given by M Loiseleur Deslong- 

 charaps in the Novveau Du Hamel, from a speci- 

 men with perfect cones, preserved in the herba- 

 rium of M. Poiteau, who gathered it himself 

 in its native country. The leaves of this pine 

 are very slender, from 6 in. to 8 in. long, in fives ; 

 sheath about J in. long, not caducous, as in P. 

 Strdbus and P. Cembra. At the base of the leaves 

 is a lanceolate scale, a few lines long The cones 

 are about Sin. long; the scales are swelled at 

 their upper extremity, and angular; having an 

 umbilicus on the summit, terminated by a small, 

 straight, very slender point. This pine is a native 

 of the mountains of St. Domingo. There is rea- 

 son to believe that it may be acclimatised in the 

 south of France, as snow occasionally falls on the 

 mountains where it is indigenous. In the Bon 

 Jardinier, M. Poiteau observes that he met with 

 this pine in abundance in St. Domingo, in the 

 quarter of Saint Suzanne, where it grows to the 

 height of from 25ft. to 30 ft., with leaves 6in. 

 long, of a fine green, and cones somewhat larger 

 than those of P. sylvestris. 



1 36. P. MONTEZU'MJS Lamb. Monte- 

 zuina's, or the rough-branched Mex- 

 ican, Pine. 



Identification. Lamb. Pin., 1. 1. 22. 



Synonyme. P. occidentals Runth in Httmb. et 



Bonp. Nov. Gen. et Sp. Pi., 2. p. 4., Deppe in 



Schlecht. Linnaa, 5. p. 76. 

 Eneravingt. Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., 1. 1. 22 ; and our 



figs. 2184. and 2185., from Lambert. 



2183 



2184 



Spec. Char., Sfc. Leaves in fives, erect, triquetrous; sheaths about 1 in. long, persistent Cone* 

 oblong, about 9 in. long, tuberculate. (Lamb. Pin.} A native of Orizaba, and other mountains of 

 Mexico. 



Description. A tall tree. Branchlets covered with a thick scabrous bark. Leaves generally in 

 fives, rarely in threes or fours, stipular, persistent, lanceolate, much pointed, with ciliated and torn 

 scales ; erect, waved, somewhat rigid, triquetrous, callous and mucronate, glaucous green, marked 

 with many parallel dotted lines ; slightly bicanalicu late above, flattish beneath, 6 in. long. ; angles cre- 

 nulated, scabrous; sheaths 1 in. to l|in. long, persistent; scales amentaceous, ciliate and torn on 

 the margin, bright brown. Male catkins cylindrical, 1 in. long, with many imbricated, oval, ciliated 

 scales at the base. Appendage to the anthers roundish, convex, coriaceous, membranaceous on the 

 margin, torn, and crenulated. Cones oblong, tubercled, bright brown, thicker at the base, a little 

 attenuated towards the apex, about Gin. long; scales elevatedat the apex, bluntly tetragonal, trun- 

 cate, very thick. (Lamb.) Mr. Lambert says : " JJaron Humboldt has referred this species to P. oc- 

 cidcnt&lis Suoartz; but I have ventured to separate it, as the size of the cones, which may, in general, 

 be relied on, as indicating a specific distinction in this genus, differs so much." Those described by 

 Swartz are only Sin. long, whereas those of P. Montezunru? are more than double that length. 



