PINUS, OR THE TRUE PINES. 09 



tained, as Bhotan is its most southern, and Jalalabad its most 

 western limits. 



This tree flowers about the end of May, and the cones re- 

 quire eighteen months to mature. 



PiNUS LOPHOsrERMA, Lindlty, the Crest-seeded Pine. 

 Leaves, in fives, from 8 to 10 inches long, stout, stiff, and 

 pungent at the points, with the sides rough, three-edged, and 

 not unlike those of Pinus macrocarpa. Sheaths on the young 

 leaves upwards of au inch long, and smooth ; while those on the 

 old ones are little moiC than half that length, are torn at the 

 ends, and much wrinkled along the surface. Shoots, very stout, 

 and covered, when young, with a white powder or glaucous 

 bloom. Cones, from 4J to 5| inches long, and rather more than 

 3 inches in diameter, somewhat globular or obtusely egg-shaped, 

 tapering most towards the apex, and flattened at the base, with 

 a hard, glossy surface, and very much resembling those of the 

 Stone Pine (Pinus Pinea), but somewhat larger. Scales, very 

 thick at the points, rather large, elevated, glossy, hard, and dis- 

 tinctly two-edged, or irregularly four-sided ; those nearest the 

 base of the cone being very much the smallest, more recurved, 

 and furnished with a short, stout point, which on the larger 

 scales is obsolete. Seeds, very large, and, like those of Pinus 

 Sabiniana, furnished with a thick crest, of a dark colour, from 

 which proceeds a very narrow, short, oblique, membranaceous 

 wing, which, along with the crest, separates from the seed in 

 the form of a horse's collar. 



A magnificent tree, somewhat resembling Pinus Sabiniana, 

 with very glaucous, stout shoots, found in Lower California by 

 Mr. William Lobb, who transmitted seeds of it to Mr. Hugh 

 Low, of the Clapton Nursery, in the early part of the year 1860. 



It is more or less tender in England. 



Pinus Manchurica, Hart, the Manchurian Pine. 

 This is a kind about which little is at present known, except 

 that it has five leaves in a sheath, and large edible seeds, and is 



