LXXVII. CONI‘FERE: PI‘NUS, 1013 
short, broad at the base, and pointed at the ex- 
tremity. Scales at the apex tolérably elevated and 
equal-sided, and sometimes of an irregular four- 
cornered or many-cornered shape ; elevated bands 
1897 | 
NI 1898, 
1896. P. odcarpa. 
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from the middle point to the corners, so that the whole apex of the scal 
tke slightly pyle Cones 22in. to 22 in. long, and 13in. to 2 in. 
broad. (Schlecht.) A tree. Mexico. Height 30 ft. to 40 ft. Introd. 1839, and 
rather tender in British gardens. 
P. oocarpéides Benth. — Cones distributed by Hort. Soc. in 1841, but whether 
more than a mere variation of P. oocarpa appears to us very doubtful. 
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