ARBORETUM AND FKUTICKTUAI. 



PART III. 



Sjw. ch.tr-., $c Leaves In fives, slender ; sheaths 

 persistent. ' Cones conical, half thelength ofthe 

 leaves; scales thickened at the apex, with very 

 small mucros. {lot's.) The following character 

 of this pine is given by M Loiseleur Deslong- 

 champs in the NomteauDu Hamel, from a speci- 

 men with perfect cones, preserved in the herba- 

 rium of M. Poiteau, who gathered it himself 

 in its native country. The leaves of this pine 

 are very slender, from 6 in. to S in. long, in fives ; 

 sheath about J in. long, not caducous, as in P. 

 Strobus and P. Cc rubra. At the base of the leaves 

 is .1 lanceolate scale, a few lines long The cones 

 are about Sin. long; the scales are swelled at 

 their upper extremity, and angular; having an 

 umbilicus on the summit, terminated by a small, 

 straight, very slender point. This pine is a native 

 of the mountains of St. Domingo. There is rea- 

 son to believe that it may be acclimatised in the 

 south of Fiance, as snow occasionally falls on the 

 mountains where it is indigenous. In the Bon 

 Jardinier, M. Poiteau observes that he met with 

 this pine in abundance in St. Domingo, in the 

 quarter of Saint Suzanne, where it grows to the 

 height of from 25 ft to SO ft., with leaves 6 in. 

 '.ong, of a fine green, and cones somewhat larger 

 than those of P. sylvestris. 



5 36. P. Montezu'MjE Lamb. Monte- 

 zuma's, or the rough-branched Mex- 

 ican, Pine. 



Identification. Lamb. Pin., 1. 1. £2. 



Sym nyme. P. occidentals Kvnth In ITumb. et 



Bon/t. Nov. Gen. ct Sp. Pi., 2. p. 4., Dcppe in 



Sehlecht. Liiinna, 5. p. 76. 

 Engravings. Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., 1. 1. 22 ; and our 



figs. 2184. and 2185., from Lambert. 



Char. t t[C. Leaves in iivc«, erect, triquetrous ; sheaths about 1 in. long, persistent. Cones 

 oblong, about 9 in. long, tuberculate. [Lamb. Pin.) A native of Orizaba, and other mountains of 

 .Mi . 



,./,fion. A tall tree. Branchletl covered with a thick scabrous bark. Leaves generally in 



[n threes or tours, Stipular, persistent, lanceolate, much pointed, with ciliated and torn 



t, waved, somewhat rij;;d, triquetrous, callous and mucronate, glaucous green, marked 



with many parallel dotted lines ; slightly bicanaliculate above, flatfish beneath, b* in. long, j angles cre- 



ibeaths I in. to Jim. long, persistent; scales amentaceous, ciliate and torn on 



rgin, bright brown. Male catkins cylindrical, 1 In. Ioiik, with many imbricated, oval, ciliated 



ppendagC to the anthers roundish, convex, coriaceous, membranaceous on the 



margin, torn, and crenulated. Cones oblong, tubercled. bright brown, thicker at the base, a little 



the apex, about 6 in. long ; scales elevatedat the apex, bluntly tetragonal, trun* 



• . Lamb!) Mr. Lambert says: " Baron Humboldt has referred this species to P. oc- 



ii/., but I nave ventured to leparate it. as the size of the cones, which may, in general, 



- ating a specific distinction in this genus, differs so much." Those described by 



.ne only .'Jin. long, ■ <>f /'. MontezSnu* are more than double that length. 



