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versely lanceolate. Seeds ovate-oblong, obtuse at both ends, 

 three lines long and two lines broad, and covered with a hard, 

 brittle, bony shell of a yellowish-gray colour, and furnished with 

 ample wings. 



It is a native of the mountains of Macedonia and Rumelia, in 

 European Turkey, at an elevation of from 5000 to 6000 feet, and 

 in favourable situations forms an erect tree from 30 to 40 feet 

 high but in high and exposed situations it becomes a low, 

 spreading bush, not more than four feet high. 



This kind bears a considerable resemblance to the Californian 

 Pinus monticola. 



No. 86. Pinus peotubebans, Roezl, the Protuberant scaled 

 Mexican Pine. 

 Syn. Pinus rudis, Roezl, not Endlicher. 

 „ „ angulata, Roezl. 



„ „ Occidentalis, Hort., not Humboldt or Swartz. 

 „ „ exserta, Roezl. 

 „ „ heteromorpha, Roezl. 



Leaves in fives, very slender, curved, and 10 inches long. 

 Sheaths nearly one inch long. Cones beautifully curved to- 

 wards the point, in clusters of three or four together, and sharp- 

 pointed, six inches long, and from two to two inches and a half 

 in diameter. Scales irregular shaped, more than one inch broad, 

 and half an inch long, rounded at the top, and smooth ; pro- 

 tuberance very elevated, with diflerent faces, or centres set 

 straight. 



A tree upwai'ds of 100 feet high, with its branches a little 

 raised or elevated at the ends, and curved leaves ; a very 

 handsome kind, found at an elevated place on the Contreras, 

 in Mexico, at from 9000 to 10,000 feet of elevation. Roezl 

 found it growing from 70 to 75 feet high, with very slender 

 branches, and curved leaves, upon low hills on Mount Tzompoli, 

 in Mexico, at an elevation of 9000 feet. 



A fine hardy kind, somewhat resembling Pinus Montezuma 

 in foliage and general appearance, but with very much smaller 

 cones, having very angular, glossy scales, much elevated towards 

 their points, and quite hard. 



