P I CEA 
P I N S A P O. 
Identification. —ABIES PINSAPO, Boiffier in Biblioth. Univ. Genev. (1838); Boiffier, Elench. PL Hifp. n., 197 (1838); Boiffier, Voy. Botan. 
dans le Midi de 1 'Efpagne, p. 584, t. 167 to 169 (1839-45); Spach, Hist. Nat. Vdg. Phaner., xi. p. 413 (1842); Endlicher, 
Syn. Conif. , p. 109 (1847); Lindley and Gordon in Journ. Hort. Soc., v. p. 211 (1850); Lawson, Abie time, p. 13 (1851); 
Carriere, TraitS Gfoi. des Conif. , p. 227 (1855). 
PINUS PINSAPO, Boiffier (MS.); Antoine, Conif. , p. 65 (1840-46). 
PICEA PINSAPO, Loudon, Encycl. of Trees , p. 1041 (1842); Knight, Syn. Conif. , p. 39 (1850); Gordon, Pinetum , p. 159 
(1858). 
ABIES HISPANICA, De Chambray, TraitC Prat. Arbr. Res. Conif., p. 339 (1845). 
PINSAPO of the Spaniards. The Cones, Carjuelos. 
Specific Character. —Abies foliis ramorum fterilium linearibus planis acutis, fertilium oblufis subtereti 
fediformibus, ftrobilis erebtis ovato-cylindricis, brabteis parvis inclufis obovatis, marginatis et mucronatis. 
Habitat in montibus Hifpaniae meridionalis, necnon uti videtur etiam in vicinae Africae regno Maroccano. 
A tree from 60 to 70 feet high, branched down to the very root. Branches verticillate and horizontal. 
Phyllulae large, more or lefs orbicular; no pulvini; the fears on the bark around the phyllulae rather ftraight 
and fub-parallel [fig. 1]. Leaves very clofe together, growing at right angles to the branchlets, fcarcely 
twiffed at the bafe, nor pedicellate, and difpofed in afeending fpirals round the branch, cylindrical, fub- 
glaucous, very ftiff, obtufe on the younger fruit-bearing branches [fig. 2], acute on the older, never emar- 
ginate, fhort, compreffed, almoft flat, without ftomata on the upper fide, and with from 4 to 6 rows on each 
fide on the under fide [figs. 3 and 4]; the ftomata rather large, diftinbt, and not fo crowded as in P. Cepha- 
lonica and its allies ; there is very little filvery appearance on the ftomata, fo that the upper and under fide of 
the leaf have nearly the fame colour; the under fide is bifulcate, with the midrib prominent; dilated at the bafe. 
Male catkins fhort, fcarcely exceeding the leaves in length, ovoid, intenfely purple, cluftered on the under 
fide of the extremity of the branches, very numerous on the upper two-thirds of the tree, feffile, furrounded 
at the bafe with membraneous, rufefeent, obtufe, fublacerated feales; externally, very refinous, and united at 
the bafe by an involucre which adheres for feveral years. Anthers bilocular, feffile, of a reverfed pyramidal 
form on the upper furface, keel-ribbed, opening on the under side tranfverfely by a fiffure in the middle, 
Fig. 1. Fig. 2. Fig. 3. Fig. 5., Fig. 7. 
truncate at the apex, fubmarginate and depreffed in the middle; the granules of pollen are large, fpherical, 
and pale yellow. The female catkins are cylindrical, and from an inch and a half to two inches in length, 
[ a ] a greenifh 
