KAXXK.
23. PINUS ORIENTALIS
ORIENTAL PINE.
P in u s o r i e n t a l i s , fo lü s s o lita rü s te tra g o n is , s tro b ilis o v a to -c y lin d ra c e is : sq u am is rh om b e is .
P, orientalis. Linn. Sp. PL 1421. Syst. ed. Reich, v. 4 . 1/8. Vitm. Sp. PL v. 5. 340.
Abies orientalis, folio brevi et tetragono, fructu miniino deorsùm inflexo. Tourne/. Cor. 4 1 . Duhamel.
Arb. v. 1. 4 . n. 10.
eA ty] Græcorum recentiorum. Tourne/
Die Morgenländische Tanne. Linn. Pfl. Syst. v. 2. 3/0 .
Habitat in Oriente.
D E S C R IP T IO
Folia brevia, recta, mutica. Strobili biunciales, ovato-cylindracei, penduli, squamis cuneato-rhombeis,
integris.
T in s e r t this species on the authority of Tournefort only, who states, see Voy. du Levant, tom. 2. 238,
that he found it growing in the vicinity of Trebisonde, where it is known by the name of ExLn. Its
trunk and branches, he says, are about the size of P. Picea. The leaves are but four or five lines in
length, and not more than half a line in breadth, their colour a shining greenish brown; the cones are
described as being nearly cylindrical, about two inches and a half in length, and eight or nine lines in
diameter, pointed, and composed of soft, thin, rounded scales which cover very minute and oily seeds.
I have never seen a specimen of P. orientalis either recent or dried, but am inclined to think that
some cones brought from China belong to this species. These cones I have figured; and having been
fortunate enough to obtain a copy of the drawing of P. orientalis made by Aubriet under the eye of
Tournefort himself, and which is now in the possession of M. de Jussieu, I am enabled to shew exactly
what that celebrated traveller described. The copy was made by M. Marechal, painter to the museum
at Paris, whose talents are well known; and it was obligingly communicated to me by that eminent
naturalist M. Latreille.
EXPLANATION OF TAB. 29-
a. Figure of P. orientalis from the original drawing of Aubriet.
b, b. Cones from China, supposed the same species.
c, c. Scales.
d. Seeds.