COXIFERJE. — THE PINUS, OR PINE TREE. 
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Leaves Jive in a Sheath, 
Pinus Cembra. 
a. Scales of cones thickened and spine- 
less at apex. 
Pinus obcarpa, Schiede (egg-fruited Pine). 
■ — Leaves in fives, very slender, and from eight 
to twelve inches long. Cones round, ovate, 
smooth, hard, with truncated scales. 
A native of the mountains and valleys of 
Mexico, attaining to the height of 40 feet, but 
considered to be too tender for the climate of 
England. The plant is as yet scarce. 
; Pinus leiophylla, Schiede and Deppe 
(smooth-leaved Pine). — Leaves five together, 
very slender and pendent, thickly set on the 
branches, and at the extremities of the shoots 
in close tufts, about five inches long, light 
green, slightly serrated, and covered with dot- 
ted lines ; sheaths of a bright brown, deci- 
duous. Cones two inches long, ovate, pendu- 
lous, on a very short stalk, with depressed 
truncate scales. Seeds very small. 
A tree of 60 feet high and upwards, dis- 
covered by Schiede and Deppe, on the cold 
regions of Mexico, and which gives every 
promise of proving hardy in this country. 
The leaves resemble those of the Weymouth 
Pine, to which it is no doubt related. There 
are plants at Dropmore from 15 feet to 20 
feet in height ; and it is also in the Pinetums 
at Chatsworth, Hendon, and Woburn. The 
tree has a tufted, irregular outline, and can- 
not fail to be in request as a first-rate orna- 
mental object. The timber is said to be 
valuable for various purposes. 
Pinus Montezumoe, Lambert (Montezu- 
ma's Pine). — Leaves five together, rigid, 
lanceolate rough-edged, glaucous green, bear- 
ing dotted lines, and about six inches long, 
with persistent sheaths. Cones bright brown, 
ovate, oblong, about the same length as the 
leaves, with very thick truncated scales, 
elevated at the apex. 
A native of Orizaba and other mountains 
of Mexico, to the height of 11,000 feet above 
the sea, and probably suited to the open air 
throughout Britain. The species is con- 
founded by some writers with P. occidentalis, 
the cones of which are only three inches long. 
The tree, in its native habitations, is repre- 
sented as attaining the height of 100 feet, 
covered with a thick, cracked bark, like the 
common Scotch pine. It is as yet scarce in 
collections. 
Pinus Jilifolia, Hartweg (thread-leaved 
Pine). — Leaves five together, slender, acutely 
triangular, and upwards of a foot in length. 
Cones almost stalkless, nine inches long, 
about three inches in diameter at the base, 
ovate-acuminate, with pyramidal depressed 
scales. 
A noble tree, found by Mr. Hartweg, in the 
province of Guatemala, a mountainous country 
which extends along the coast of the Pacific, 
bounded by Vera Paz and Chiapa, the Hon- 
duras, and Nicaragua. Of its habits, timber, 
&c, very little is yet (1846) known. A 
plant was tried at Pozelle, Ayrshire, in 1845 ; 
but " it was destroyed by the winter." 
Pinus Pseudo-Strobus, Lindley (false 
