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ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



PART III. 



ticultural Society's Garden, in. long 

 and -^ in. broad ; conical, with straight 

 sides, and pointed. (Fig. 2197.) Leaves 

 rather more than 6 in. long. Cone 9 in. 



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long, and 2 in. broad, with a footstalk 



1 in. long; scale 1| in. long, and l|in. 



broad. Seeds ^ in. long, and f in. 



broad; with the wing, lin. long, and 



fin. broad. A native of Nepal, on 



mountains. Introduced in 1823. 

 2197 Description. A tall, handsome, pyra- 

 midal tree, attaining the height of from 90 ft. to 

 120ft. Branches numerous, ascending, divid- 

 ed, disposed in whorls. Bark entire, smooth, 

 soft, pale grey. Wood white, abounding in 

 a liquid resin. Leaves in fives, very long, slen- 

 der, triquetrous, loose; glaucous green, pli- 

 able ; 5 in. to 7 in. long, roughish on the angles from small teeth ; furnished at 

 the apex with a small callous mucro, crowded on the branches, particularly 

 towards the apexes ; bicanaliculate above, flat beneath ; sheaths about in. 

 long, caducous, imbricated with numerous, linear-oblong, brown, membrana- 

 ceous scales. Catkins terminal, with numerous membranaceous brown scales 

 at the base; male ovate, short, obtuse, sessile, dense, collected into a head 

 about 3 lines long, and 1 in. thick. Stamens monadelphous. Anthers very short 

 roundish, opening below 

 longitudinally, filled with 

 sulphur-coloured pollen ; 

 crest small, roundish, 

 simple, membranaceous; 

 dark-brown, fringed and 

 torn on the margin ; 

 female oblong, cylindri- 

 cal, in threes or fours, 

 erect, when young pe- 

 dunculate ; scales broad, 

 roundish, imbricated in- 

 wards, coriaceous, thick, 

 margined, smooth. Cones 

 3 or 4 together, cylin- 

 drical, pedunculate, na- 

 ked, smooth ; 6 in. long, 

 pendulous when ripe, 

 2 in. in diameter, some- 

 what attenuated towards 

 the apex; scales broad, 

 wedge-shaped, coriace- 

 ous, thick, closely imbri- 

 cated, smooth ; light 

 brown ; apiculate above, 

 with a short, thick, ob- 

 tuse, dark brown mucro. 

 Seeds ovate, compressed 

 on both sides ; testa 

 bony, black, marked with grey spots; wing oblong-obtuse, membranaceous, 

 ferruginous, somewhat cimeter-shaped, reticulate. (Lamb.) P. excelsa, Mr. 

 Lambert observes, approaches so near in habit, and in the shape of its cones, 

 to P. Strobus, that, were it not for the simple, round, membranaceous crest 

 of the anthers, it would be almost impossible to distinguish them specifically. 

 The leaves are longer than in P. tftrobus, and the cones are thicker. Dr. 



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