288 PINUS, OR 



imbricated, and free from resin. Cones ovate-oblong, tapering 

 to a point, smootb, drooping, two inches and a half long, and 

 one inch across, rounded at the base, and with rather a long 

 foot-stalk. Scales half an inch across, irregularly four-sided, 

 slightly elevated, widened at the apex, and much depressed, 

 but without any spine or point in the centre. Seeds very 

 small, with wings rather more than half an inch long. 



A tall tree, growing 100 feet high, and three or four feet in 

 diameter, on the high lands of Mexico, particularly on the 

 sloping sides of the mountains of Orizaba and Real del Monte. 

 It is also plentiful on the mountains in the State of Oaxaca at 

 an elevation of from 5500 to 8000 feet above the sea. 



It is the " de'ocote" or " Pino de'ocote " (candle wood) of the 

 Mexicans. 



Timber durable and full of resin. 



It is tolerably hardy. 



No. 55. PiNiTS TUBERCULATA, D. Don, the Tuberculated Coned 



Pine. 

 Syn. Pinus Californica, Hartweg. 



Leaves in threes, thickly set on the branches, bright green, 

 rather stiff, broad, and flat, with an elevated rib running along 

 their middle on the inner side, and from four and a half to five 

 inches in length ; sheaths short, smooth, and not more than half 

 an inch long on the young leaves, but very much shorter on the 

 older ones, and only partially persistent. Seed-leaves on the 

 young plants from seven to eight in number, rather slender, and 

 not very long. Branches not very stout, rather numerous, and 

 irregular, with a roughish bark ; buds below the middle size, 

 imbricated, and not very resinous or pointed. Cones mostly 

 in clusters of four, but sometimes solitary or in pairs, and only 

 produced on the main stems; of a long, conical shape, five 

 inches in length, and two broad, the outer surface curved, the 

 inner straight, widest near the base, and gradually tapering to 

 the point, quite sessile, and uneven-sided at the base, very 



