THE TRUE PINES. 303 



PiNUS GoBDONiANA. See page 303. 



No. 70. PiNUS Grenville^, Ooo^don, Lady Grenville's Pine. 

 Leaves in lives, 14 inches in length on the wild specimens, 

 very robust, three-edged, thickly set on the branches, dark 

 green, and very much resembling those of Pinus macrophylla, 

 but rather longer. Sheaths persistent, or not falling off, nearly 

 one inch and a half in length, rather rough, and scaly. Seed- 

 leaves on the young plants mostly ten in number, and rather 

 long. Branches mostly solitary, rarely in pairs, irregularly 

 placed, and very robust. Buds very large, imbricated, non- 

 resinous, and thickly set with long narrow brown scales. 

 Cones pendulous, solitary, stalkless, quite straight, tapering 

 regularly from the base to the point, 16 inches in length, and 

 three inches and a half broad at the base, with from twenty- 

 eight to thirty rows of scales. Scales nearly all of a size, six- 

 eighths of an inch broad, and slightly elevated, and blunt, par- 

 ticularly towards the base, from which a small portion of clear 

 resin sometimes exudes. Seeds about the ordinary size, with 

 mostly, but not always, bifid wings, which are rather broad, 

 and more than an inch in length. 



This noble Pine is called " Ocote Mache," or Male Pine, by 

 the inhabitants, on account of its robust habit, and is found 

 plentiful on the highest parts of the Cerro de San Juan, a 

 range of mountains to the south-west of Tepic, chiefly com- 

 posed of crumbled pumice-stone, of volcanic origin, and which 

 at a distance gives the place a whitish appearance. 



Mr. Hartweg found it growing on the Cerro de San Juan, or 

 Saddle Mountain, near Tepic, in Mexico, attaining a height of 

 from 60 to 80 feet. The timber is white, soft, and not very 

 durable. 



It has been named in compliment to that excellent patron of 

 Conifers, the late Lady Grenville, of Dropmore. 



It is tender. 



