272 PINUS, OR 



Timor. It very much resembles Pinus longifolia, but differs in 

 having much slenderer and darker green leaves, and very much 

 smaller cones. 

 It is quite tender. 



No. 39. Pinus Jeffeeyii, Balfour, Jeffrey's Pine. 

 Syn. Pinus Jeffreyana, Van Houtte. 



Leaves in threes, pendulous at the ends, deep green, keeled 

 on the inner face, rounded on the back, very acute pointed, 

 and from eight to nine inches long. Sheaths persistent, one 

 inch and a quarter long when young, but v*y much shorter, 

 lacerated at the ends, and of an ashy-gray colour when old. 

 Buds short, stout, imbricated, and resinous. Branches hori- 

 zontal, a little declining, rather slender, and of a light, yellowish- 

 red colour. Cones large, ovate-conical, tapering most to the 

 point, eight inches long, and three inches and a half in diameter 

 at the widest part, which is towards the base, and mostly pro- 

 duced in clusters round the branches. Scales pyramidal, more 

 or less projecting, one inch and a half broad in the larger ones, 

 but much less on those towards the base and extremity, stoutly 

 hooked towards the points, the hook being nine-tenths of an 

 inch long, and slightly incurved on all the scales. Seeds four- 

 tenths of an inch long, and dark-brown, with wings, rather more 

 than an inch long, beautifully striated with dark-brown. 



A noble tree, growing 150 feet high, and four feet in 

 diameter, found by Jeffrey in the Shasta Valley in Northern 

 California, growing in poor, sandy soil. 



A very distinct pine, and quite hardy. 



No. 40. Pinus Kasiya, Royle, the Khasiya Pine. 



Syn. Pinus Cavendishiana, Paxton. 

 „ „ Khasyana, Hooker. 

 „ „ Nepalensis, Pinetum Woburnense. 



Leaves in threes, very slender, long, spreading, compressed, 

 three-sided, somewhat convex on the back, scabrous on the 



