278 PINUS, OR 



Pinus Benthamiana, but slenderer. Cones in clusters round the 

 branches, a little declining, regularly conical, widest near the 

 base, and tapering to the apex, six inches long, and two inches 

 in diameter at the widest part, sessile, with a crowd of very 

 small scales close to the base. Scales rhomboid, numerous, 

 glossy, hard, woody, and largest on the widest part of the 

 cones, nearlj' one inch broad, and half an inch long, but much 

 smaller at both extremities ; slightly elevated across the middle 

 by a transverse, acute keel or ridge, highest in the centre, and 

 terminated by a short, straight, sharp point of a dark brown 

 colour. Seeds below the middle size, almost round, with rather 

 narrow linear wings, rounded and bifid at the apex, of a 

 grayish colour, and not very membranaceous. The cones re- 

 semble those of the common Cluster Pine (P. Pinaster), and 

 are very different from any other known Caiifornian Pine, they 

 are of a bright, glossy, yellow colour, and entirely free from 

 resinous matter. 



A large tree, resembling Pinus Benthamiana, but with much 

 narrower and slenderer leaves, and very different cones, found 

 on the Sierra Nevada, in Upper California, by Lobb and 

 Bridges. 



It is quite hardy. 



No. 45. Pinus patula, Schiede, the Spreading-leaved Mexican 



Pine. 

 Syn, Pinus subpatula, Roezl. 

 „ „ Escandoniana, Roezl. 

 „ „ Hoseriana, Roezl. 

 „ „ prasina, Roezl. 

 „ „ TzompoUana, Roezl. 



Leaves in' threes, but not unfrequently in fours and fives ■ 

 very slender, soft, spreading, light green, and recurved, from 

 seven to nine inches long, deeply channelled on the upper side 

 and convex beneath. Sheaths on the young leaves scaly, one 

 inch and a half long, but very much shorter, and rather jagged 



