2286 



ARBORETUM AND FRUTICETUM. 



ART III. 



ticultural Society's Garden, a in. long 

 and T 8 F in. broad; conical, with straight 

 sides, and pointed. (Fig. 2197.) Leaves 

 rather more than 6 in. long. Cone 9 in. 

 long, and 2 in. broad, with a footstalk 

 1 in. long; scale If in. long, and 1^-in. 



2 198 



broad. Seeds 



long, and 



* 11K 



broad; with the wing, l£in. long, and 



I in. broad. A native of Nepal, on 



mountains. Introduced in 1823. 

 - 11 ' 7 Description. A tall, handsome, pyra- 

 midal tree, attaining the height of from 90 ft. to 

 120 ft. Branches numerous, ascending, divid- 

 ed, disposed in whorls. Bark entire, smooth, 

 soft, pale grey. Wood white, abounding in 

 a liquid resin. Leaves in fives, very long, slen- 

 der, triquetrous, loose; glaucous green, pli- 

 able ; 5 in. to 7 in. long, roughish on the angles from small teeth ; furnished at 

 the apex with a small callous mucro, crowded on the branches, particularly 

 towards the apexes ; bicanaliculate above, flat beneath ; sheaths about £ in. 

 long, caducous, imbricated with numerous, linear-oblong, brown, membrana- 

 ceous scales. Catkins terminal, with numerous membranaceous brown scales 

 at the base; male ovate, short, obtuse, sessile, dense, collected into a head 

 about 3 lines long, and 1 in. thick. Stamens monadelphous. Anthers very short 

 roundish, opening below 

 longitudinally, filled with 

 sulphur-coloured pollen ; 

 crest small, roundish, 

 simple, membranaceous; 

 dark-brown, fringed and 

 torn on the margin; 

 female oblong, cylindri- 

 cal, in threes or fours, 

 erect, when young pe- 

 dunculate ; scales broad, 

 roundish, imbricated in- 

 wards, coriaceous, thick, 

 margined, smooth. Cones 

 3 or 4 together, cylin- 

 drical, pedunculate, na- 

 ked, smooth ; 6£ in. long, 

 pendulous when ripe, 

 8 in. in diameter, some- 

 what attenuated towards 

 the apex ; scales broad, 

 wedge-shaped, coriace- 

 ous, thick, closely imbri- 

 cated, smooth | light 

 brown; apiculatc above, 

 with B short, thick, ob- 

 tuse, dark brown mucro. 

 ;-. ovate, compressed 



on both sides ; testa 

 bony, black, marked with grey spots; wing oblong-obtuse, membranaceous, 

 ferruginous, somewhat cimeter-shaped, reticulate. (Lamb.) P. excelsa, Mr. 

 Lambert ODSi rves, approaches so near in habit, and in the shape of its cones, 

 to I'- .S'trobus, that, were it not for the simple, round, membranaceous crest 

 of the anthers, it would be almost impossible to distinguish them specifically. 

 The leave* are longer than in P. Strdbus, and the cones arc thicker. 



Dr. 



