LXXVII. CONI’'FERE: PI‘NUS. 
Nothing is said respecting the timber of this tree; 
but the seeds are eaten by the inhabitants of the lower 
parts of India, in the southern countries. This species 
was discovered by Captain P. Gerard, of the Bengal 
Native Infantry; and named in commemoration of him 
by Dr. Wallich. Cones have been sent to England, by 
Dr. Wallich and others, at different times ; though they 
are often confounded with those of P. longifolia. The 
plant named P. Gerardiana in the Horticultural Society’s 
Garden has persistent sheaths, and long slender leaves; 
and is, doubtless P. longifolia; and the same may be 
said of a number of plants at Messrs. Loddiges’s. There 
are plants of the true P. Gerardidna in the Clapton 
Nursery, under its synonyme of P. Nebsa. 
2 37. P.sine’nsis Lamb. The Chinese Pine. 
Identification. Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., 1. t. 29.3 Pin. Wob., p. 39. 
Synonyme. P. ? Keséya Royle, a native of Nepal. See Gard. Mag., 1840, 
p. 8. 2. nepalénsis Pin. Wob. ; P.Cavendishiana Hort. 
Engravings. Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., 1. t. 29.; Pin. Wob., t. 12.; and our 
. 1873. to our usual scale, from a specimen of a tree at Redleaf; 
and figs. 1874. and 1872. of the natural size, the cone and leaves from 
Lambert, and the bud from Redleaf. : 
Spec. Char., &c. ‘Leaves in threes, rarely in 
1871. P. Gerardiina. 
twos, very slender. 
Male catkins short. Cones ovate ; scales truncate at the apex, 
colour as those of P. Pinea. Sheaths 
without any point. Branches tubercled. Leaves squarrose, with 
stipular scales ; twin, or in threes, slender, spreading, semicylin- 
drical, mucronated, serrulated; grass green, 5 in. long; sheaths 
cylindrical, }in. long. Male catkins numerous, somewhat verti- 
cillate, 2in. long. Cones with very short footstalks, ovate, 
brownish, 2 in. long. Scales thick, woody, tetragoval at the apex, 
flattened, truncate, mutic. (Lamb.) Buds (see fig. 1872.), in the 
Redleaf specimen, from 4,in. to 3-in. in length, and about the 
same breadth ; bluntly pointed, with numerous fine scales of a 
brownish colour, and wholly without resin. Leaves from 5 in. to 
52 in. in length; three-sided, slender, straight, and about the same 
from 2 in. to ¢in. long; brownish, 
slightly membranaceous, and rigid. A 
largetree. China. Introd.1829, 
1873. P, sinduusls. 
or before, and requiring pro- 
tection in England in very 
severe winters. 
