TAB. 34. 



28. PINUS LANCEOLATA. 



BROAD-LEAVED FIR. 



Pmus LANCEOLATA, folHs solitaiiis knceolatis planis patentibus, strobilis globosis; squamls acuminatis. 



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Abies major sinensis, pectinatis Taxi folils subtus esssiis, conis grandioribus, sursum rigentibus, foliorum 

 et squamarum apiculis spiuosis. PluL Amaltli. Bot. 1. t. S5\.Jig. 1. 



Habitat in China. 



DESCRIPTIO. 



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Folia sessilia, undiqne patenti-deflexa, sesquiuncialia, lanceolata, acuminato-pungcntia, rigida, plana, 

 integcrrima; margine scabriuscula. Amenta nondum nobis innotuere. Strohili magnitudine nucis 

 Jufflandis, sessiles, nutantes, globosi, Iseves, squamis ovatis, acutis, mucronulatis. 



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The fine specimen from which the figure was taken, was brought to England by Sir George 

 Leonard Staunton, Bart, and is now in the Banksian herbarium. The Province in which it was seen 

 growing was Chekiang. , . / 



- P. lanceolata is so strikingly difierent from all the other species of this genus, that it can never be 

 confounded with any one of them. Its large globular cones, and the singularity of their scales, with 

 the broadness of its leaves, at once distinguish it. The latter have a glaucous hue on the under surface, 

 and terminate, as well as the scales, in bristly points. 



This tree has not yet been introduced into this country, nor have I heard of any attempt belno- 

 made to raise it from seed. 



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EXPLANATION OF TAB. 34. 



a, a. Leaves. 



b. Scale of a Cone. 



