15. PINUS LONGIFOLIA.
LONG-LEAVED INDIAN PINE.
P in u s L oN G iroL iA , fo liis te rn is te n u is s im is lo n g is sim is p e n d u lis , v a g in a e lo n g a ta , s tip u lis in te g e rrim is
d e c id u is, a n th e r a ru in c ris ta c o n v e x a in te g riu s c u la .
P. longifolia. Roxb. MSS. 1 1 80.
Habitat in montibus Napaulensibus, Indiic Orientalis.
D E SC R IP T IO .
Arbar vasta, excelsa. Folia demnm pendula, ultra pedalia, gracillima, subtüs striata, convexa, suprä
canaliculata, nervo tenui, prominulo, margine undique semüato-scabra. Vagina, semiunciales, vel
paulo longiores, Iffives, apice lacerse. Stipidce breves, integerrimro, recume, decidu®. Amcnta
mascula ovato-cylindraeea, duplö quam in priecedente breviora; antherarum Crista priori similis sed
I^tior: Jceminea^ globosa, pedunculata, erecta. Strobili ovati, parum incurvi, tuberculosi, nec muricato-
spinosi, haud biunciales.
1 o R the following account of this tree, I am obliged to a manuscript communication of Dr. Roxburgh’s.
Leaves threefold, filiform, very long and pendulous, with margins a little scabrous. Cones ovate,
considerably shorter than the leaves, scales thereof smooth, anthers crowned.
In gardens about Calcutta a few small trees of this species are found, all from Napaul, or reared
from seed from that country, where they are found on the stupendous mountains, there growing to an
immense size, and there, they blossom about the beginning of the hot season. P. Tceda, with its varieties,
and P. palustris, or Swamp Pine of America, are the only other species with threefold leaves; but
as I am not in possession of any figure thereof, I cannot take upon me to say, this is not one of them;
however it is not likely that the Swamp Pine of America, should be found an Alpine plant in Asia;
besides, their cones differ in shape; the great length and disposition of the leaves, as well as the structure
of the scales of the cone, preclude the chance of its being P. palustris, or P. Tceda, or any one of
its (supposed) varieties.
hunk. I have observed above, that the trees about Calcutta are small, but in Napaul I am
informed they grow straight to a very great height, upwards of an hundred feet; the bark is scabrous,
the branches verticelled, and rather few in number than otherwise, so that here the head is thin, of a
roundish form, and yields little shade.
Leaves threefold, disposed in approximated spiral rows round the ends of the branchlets, perfectlv
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