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long, and of a glaucous gray colour, ribbed on the inner side, 

 rather flat, incurved, pointed, and compressed. Sheaths ragged, 

 thready, persistent, one inch and a half long on the young 

 leaves, but much shorter and torn on the old ones. Branches 

 stout, rather distant, but regularly placed in whorls on the 

 stem, nearly horizontal, slightly elevated towards the ex- 

 tremities, and tinged with violet on the young shoots. Cones 

 conical-oblong, tapering to the point, solitary, very large, 12 

 to 14 inches long, and six inches broad, very hard, smooth, 

 pale-yellow, with a polished surface, and frequently weighing 

 from three to four pounds each. Scales wedge-shaped, with 

 the points thickened and drawn out into a strong hook ; those 

 nearest the apex shortest, incurved, and slightly bentj while 

 those below the middle and at the base are elongated, deflexed, 

 and point downwards, two inches long, and one inch and a 

 half broad in the largest ones. Seeds half an inch long, 

 of a blackish colour, rather flattened, and much smaller than 

 those of P. Sabiniana, and with broad wings more than an inch 

 long. 



A large tree, with spreading branches, growing from 80 to 

 100 feet high, and three or four feet in diameter, found on the 

 mountains of Santa Lucia, near the Mission of San Antonia in 

 California, within sight of the sea, at an elevation of from 3000 

 to 4000 feet. It is also plentiful in other parts of California, 

 particularly on the " Crusta," an ascent from San Luis Obispo, 

 on the brow of the mountain. 



No. 33. PiNUS CuBENSis, Grisebach, the Cuba Pine. 

 Leaves in threes, but frequently in pairs, very long, rigid, 

 compressed, and three-sided, rough on the edges, mucronate, or 

 somewhat spiny-pointed, and from eight to ten inches long and 

 nearly a line broad. Sheaths short and persistent. Cones 

 solitary or in pairs, ovate- conical, somewhat obtuse at the 

 points, pendulous, and two and a half inches long and one inch 

 broad near the base. Scales rhomboid, somewhat pyramidally 

 elevated and prominently keeled transversely, with the um- 



