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It produces a valuable timber, but so hard as to resist the 

 plane. 



It is rather tender. 



No. 75. PiNUS LiNDLEYANA, Gordon, Dr. Lindley's Pine. 



Syn. Pinus Montezumse Lindleyi, Loudon. 

 „ rudis, Endlicher. 

 „ Endlicheriana longifolia, Roezl. 

 „ Richardiana, Roezl. 



robusta, Roezl. 

 „ Decaisneana, Roezl. 



Leaves in fives, very robust, and sharp-pointed, nine inches 

 long, three-edged on the inner face, and rounded on the back ; 

 of a deep green, a little glaucous when young, and very thickly 

 placed on the young shoots ; older ones spreading or pendent, 

 younger ones ascending. Sheaths more than an inch long on 

 the young leaves, scaly, and a little wrinkled and jagged at 

 the ends ; older ones much torn, very short, rough, and loose. 

 Branches very robust, curved upwards at the ends, and nume- 

 rous ; lateral ones stout, short, and twisted. Buds large, 

 rather obtuse, and covered with close, light-brown, non-resinous 

 scales. Cones from six to seven inches long, and two inches 

 in diameter near the base, regularly conical, a little curved, and 

 tapering to a regular point. Scales numerous, small, three- 

 quarters of an inch across, regularly rhomboid, nearly flat, or 

 slightly tuberculated on the top, or with a slightly-elevated 

 transverse ridge across the centre, a little sunken in the 

 middle, and furnished with a stout blunt prickle in the centre, 

 of a dark-brown colour. Seeds small, with rather long nar- 

 row wings. 



A superb tree, growing seventy or eighty feet high, with its 

 branches and leaves in tufts, and very robust, forming a beau- 

 tiful head, and one of the most elegant of Mexican Pines; 

 found upon Mount Ajusco, in Mexico, at an elevation of 10,000 

 or 11,000 feet. 



It is quite hardy, and very distinct from Pinus Montezumse, 



