Morphological Notes. 
BY 
Sir W. T. THISELTON-DYER, K.C.M.G., C.I.E., F.R.S., 
Director , Royal Botanic Gardens , Kew. 
With Plate XL. 
X. A Proliferous Pinus Cone. 
T HE specimen described in this note has perhaps a little 
more than a scientific interest. It was brought from 
Spain by the late H. R. H. the Comte de Paris in 1894 and 
sent by him to me not many months before his death, which 
took place on September 8 of that year. 
Its history is given in the following letters: — 
Palacio de Villamanrique, 
Provincia de Sevilla (Espana), 
April 27, 1894. 
Sir, 
I have in my possession what I consider as a very curious 
botanical phenomenon, and I would gladly present it to the Kew 
Museum, or send it to you for inspection, if you thought it worth 
of it. 
It is a frondiferous cone of the Pinus Pinea , out of the upper end 
of which has grown a young tree just as a pine-apple grows out of the 
crown of this fruit. Generally these cones fall only after having thrown 
away their seeds. This one fell on the ground (how I do not know) 
with the seeds or almonds still encased in it. It was picked up in 
a large Pinar or pine forest which I own in this neighbourhood, by 
[Annals of Botany, Vol. XVII. No. LXVIII. September, 1903.] 
