TAB. 21. 



15. PINUS LONGirOLIA. 



LONG=LEAVED INDIAN PINE. 



PiNus LONGiFOLiA, foliis temis tenuissimis longissimis pendulis, vagina elongata, stipulis integerrimis 



deciduis, antherarum crista convexa iiitegriuscul 



a 



P. longifolia. Ro.vb. MSS. 1180. 



Habitat In montibus Napaulensibus, Indian Orientalis. 



DESCRIPTIO. 



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^rbor vasta, excelsa. Folia demum pendula, ultra pcdalia. gracillima, subtus striata, convexa, supr^ 

 canaliculata, neryo tenui, prominulo, margine nndique sermlato-scabra. Fagi7ia^ semiunciales, vel 

 panl6 longiores, Iscves, apice lacer^. Slljml^ breves, integerrim^, recurve, decidual. ^me?ifa 

 mascula ovato-cylindracea, dupl6 ctuam in prcecedcnte breviora; antherarum crista priori similis sed 

 latior: fmminea globosa, pedunculata, areata. Strohili ovati, par^im incurvi, tuberculosi, nee muricato- 

 spinosi, baud biunciales. 



For the following account of this tree, I am obhged to a manuscript communication of Dr. Ptoxburgh's. 



'' Leaves threefold, filiform, very long and pendulous, with margins a httle scabrous. Cones ovate, 

 considerably shorter than the leaves, scales thereof smooth, anthers crowned. 



In gardens about Calcutta a few small trees of this species are found, all from Napaul, or reared 

 from seed from that country, where they are found on the stupendous mountains, there growing to an 

 immense size, and there they blossom about the beginning of the hot season. P. Tteda, with Its varie- 

 ties, and F.pahislris, or Swamp Pine of America, are the only other species with threefold leaves- but 

 as I am not in possession of any figure thereof, I cannot take upon me to say, this is not one of them- 

 however it is not likely that the Swamp Pine of America, should be found an Alpine plant in Asia- 

 bcsides, their cones differ in shape; the great length and disposition of the leaves, as well as the struc- 

 ture of the scales of the cone, preclude the chance of its being P. palustris, or P. Ta^da, or anv one of 

 its (supposed) varieties. 



Trunk. I have observed above, that the trees about Calcutta are small, but in Napaul I am 

 informed they grow straight to a very great height, upwards of an hundred feet; the bark Is scabrous, 

 the branches verticelled, and rather few in number than otherwise, so that here the head is thin, of a 

 roundish form, and yields little shade. 



Leaves threefold, disposed in approximated spiral rows round the ends of the branehlets, perfectly 



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