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Yedo and Peking. "Near the royal tombstones (at Pekin), I observed 

 a species of Pine tree having a peculiar habit and most striking 

 appearance. It had a thick trunk which rose from the ground to the 

 height of 3 or 4 feet only; at this point some eight or ten branches 

 sprung out, not brandling or bending in the usual way, but rising 

 perpendicularly as straight as a Larch to a height of 80 or 100 feet. 

 The bark of the main stems and secondary stems was of a milky- 

 white colour, peeling like that of the Arbutus, and the leaves, which 

 were chiefly on the top of the tree, were of a lighter green than 

 those of the common Pine. Altogether this tree had a very curious 

 appearance, very symmetrical in form, and the different specimens 

 which evidently occupied the most honourable places in the cemetery, 

 were as like one another as they possibly could be. In all my 

 wanderings in India, China, and Japan, I had never seen a Pine 

 tree like this one. What could it be 1 Was it new ? And had I 

 at last found something to reward me for my journey to the far 

 north. I went up to the spot where two of these trees were standing 

 like sentinels, one on each side of a grave. They were both covered 

 with cones, and, therefore, were in a fit state for a critical examina- 

 tion of the species. But although almost unknown in Europe, the 

 species is not new. It proved to be one already known under the 

 name of Pinus Bungeana." 



This remarkable Pine is still comparatively rare in British gardens. 

 It much resembles the Himalayan, P. Gerardiana, but is superior to 

 it as an ornamental tree. It is quite hardy. 



Pinus Bungeana is named after Alexander von Bunge, a Russian 

 Botanist, who accompanied Ledebour in his travels through Siberia, 

 and who was afterwards (1830) sent by the Eussian Government as 

 naturalist with a mission to Pekin, where he first met with this 

 Pine and many other plants not previously known to Europeans. 

 He subsequently (1836) succeeded Ledebour as Professor of Botany 

 and Director of the Botanic Garden at Dorpat. 



Pinus cembroides.— A low Alpine tree, with the . trunk often 

 tortuous. The branches and their ramifications are very numerous, 

 imparting a dense habit to the tree ; the leaves are about \\ inch 

 long, triquetral and compressed, rigid, erect or sub-erect, and light 

 glaucous green. Cones ovoid, 2 to 2£ inches long. 



Habitat. — The mountains of Orizaba and the Eeal del Monte in 

 Mexico, at elevations between 8,000 and 12,000 feet; also in south 

 California. 



Introduced by Hartweg in 1846. 



On the mountains of Orizaba tins Pine is said to attain a height 



