LXXVII. CON’ FERE: PI‘NUS. 971 
Flowers in May, and the cones 
are matured in November of the 
second year. 
1801. P. inops. 1802. 
The violet colour of the shoots is peculiar to this species and to P. mitis, 
among the 2- and 3-leaved pines, but it occurs in the 4-leaved pines, in P. 
Sabinidna and P. Coilter. The buds are resinous; and this matter very 
readily exudes, and incrusts the surface of the sections wherever a branch is 
cut off. At Dropmore, in warm weather during sunshine, the fragrance of 
the air in the neighbourhood of this tree is delight- 
fully balsamic. 
2 13, P. pu’Ncens Miche. The prickly-coned, 
or Table Mountain, Pine. 
Identification. Michx. Arb., 1. p. 61. ; Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept., 
2. p. 643. ; Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., 1. t. 17. 
Engravings. Lamb. Pin., ed.2., 1. t.17.; Michx. N. Amer. 
Syl., 3. t. 140.5 our fig. 1804. to our usual scale, and figs. 
1803. and 1805, natural size, all from Dropmore specimens. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves short, and thickly set. 
Cones top-shaped, very large, yellow. Scales 
with hard incurved prickles, thick, and 
broad at the base. (Michr.) Bud (jig. 
1803.) from Zin. to £in. long, and 2 in. 
broad; cylindrical, blunt at the point ; 
brownish, and covered with white resin ; 
generally without small buds. Leaves 
(fig. 1805.) 24in. long, including the 
sheath, which has 4 or 5 rings; the 
leaves are much broader, and rather 
shorter and lighter, than those of P. 
(s.) pumilio, and tipped with a sharp 
point. Cone 34 in. long, and about 
24in. broad. Scale woody, and furnished witha 
strong awl-shaped hook, exceeding 3 in.in length. 
Seeds nearly as large as those of P. sylvéstris, 
rough and black. Cotyledons from 6 to 8. 
1804. P. pingens. 
