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ARBOKETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



PART III. 



and in the Duke of Devonshire's villa at Chiswiek, are from 3 ft. to 5 ft. 

 in height. It is needless to say that such a pine ought to be in every 



collection. Plants, in the London nurseries, are 5/. each. 



t 28. /\ Tf.oco^ti: Schiede et Deppe. The Teocote, or twisted- leaved, Pine. 



ltU-nt{ficatio>i. Schiede et Deppe in Schlecht. Linnsea, 5. p. 76. ; Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., 1. t. 20. 

 BmgrnmHgs. Lamb. Tin., ed. 'J., 1. t. 'JO., from specimens furnished by MM. Schiede and Deppe, the 



discoverers; and our,/?'t, r * 2173. and 'J174., from Lambert's figures, and from a specimen of a living 



plant at Boyton. 



2173 



Spec. Char., eye. Leaves in threes, com- 

 pressed, flexuose, scabrous ; sheaths 

 about A in. long. Cones ovate, 

 smoothish. (Lamb. Pi?i.) A native 

 of Mount Orizaba, near Vera Cruz, 

 in Mexico. Introduced by A. B. Lam- 

 bert, Esq., in 1826, or before. 

 Description, Branchlets very leafy, with 

 a persistent epidermis. Buds imbricated 

 with lanceolate, acuminate, ciliate, and 

 torn scales. Leaves 

 in threes, erect, 

 rigid, compressed, 

 acute, tortuous ; 

 light green, bica- 

 naliculate above, 

 slightly convex be- 

 neath, very smooth ; 

 the intermediate 

 slightly prominent 

 angle, and the mar- 

 gins, crenulated, 

 scabrous ; sheaths 

 2174 cylindrical, about 



1 in. in length, persistent, torn on the 

 margin. ('ones ovate-oblong, drooping, 

 smoothish, scarcely Sin. -long; scales di- 

 lated at the apex, somewhat trapezoidal, 

 much depressed; in the young cones always 

 inutic. (Lamb.) This is a very rare species ; 

 there being no plants of it either at Drop- 

 more or in the Horticultural Society's 

 Garden. Indeed, so far as we are aware, 

 it exists in no other collection in Britain, 

 than that of Mr. Lambert at Boyton. 



| {'>. P. pa'tula Schiede et Deppe MSS. The spreading-/t>am/ Pine. 



ttton. Lamb I'm., ed. L, t. 19. 



Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., I. t. l<). ; md Jigs, '1Mb. and 217fi., from Mr. Lambert's figure. 



Spec. Char., SfC. Leaves in threes, very slender, 2-channeled, spreading; 



i'Ii- about I in. long, ('ones ovate-oblong, polished. (Lamb. Pin.) 



A native of Mexico, at Malpayo de la .Joya, in the cold region, where 



it was discovered by MM. Schiede and Deppe, and introduced into 



ud by Mr. Lambert. 



h' '/</, i ion, Branchlets covered with a smooth, ash-lead-coloured, and 



' epidermis. Scales of the bud lanceolate, acuminate, carinate, 



rigid, thread-like, and ciliate. Leaves in threes, slender, recurved and 



:\ light green; deeply bicanaliculate above, convex beneath, 



