270 PINUS, OR 



which that of easy digestion is certainly not to be reckoned 

 one. 



The Neoza Pine also affords abundance of fine turpentine, 

 and the cones exude a copious white resin, and produce about 

 100 seeds each, which are sold in the Simla bazaars under the 

 name of Neoza nuts, and in those of Affghanistan as Chilghoza 

 nuts. 



It is quite hardy, but very slow in growth. 



No. 36. PiNUS Geeggi, Engelmann, Dr. Gregg's Mexican 



Pine. 



Leaves in threes, short, rigid, compressed, and three-sided, 

 somewhat rough on the margins, and from two and a half to 

 three inches long, and half a line wide. Cones oblong, or 

 oblong-cylindrical, obtuse at the points, pendulous, subsessile, 

 and three inches and three-quarters long and one and a half 

 broad. Scales somewhat rhomboid, shining, and pyra- 

 midally depressed. Those on the outer side of the cone are 

 pyramidally elevated, sharply keeled transversely, blunt 

 pointed, and much the largest. Umbone or scar somewhat 

 depressed and mucronate. Mucro short, thick, and deflexed, 

 but sometimes wanting. 



A moderate-sized tree, from 30 to 50 feet high, resembling 

 Pinus Teocote, found on the mountains of Sullillo in Mexico, 

 by Dr. Gregg, and of which but very little is known. 



No. 37. PiNUS iNSiGNis, Douglas, the Kemarkable Pine. 

 Syn. Pinus Californica, Loisel, not Hartweg. 

 „ „ adunca, Bosc. 

 „ „ Montereyensis, Ra/tich. 



Leaves in threes, deep grass-green, rather slender, straight, 

 or twisted in all directions, very densely set on the branches, 

 of different lengths, from four to six inches long, ribbed on 

 the inner sides, and sharp-pointed. Sheaths very short, smooth, 

 and rather more than a quarter of an incb long. Branches 



