28. PINUS LANCEOLATA.
BROAD-LEAVED FIR.
P inus LANCEOLATA, foliis solitariis lanceolatis planis patentibus, strobilis globosis; squamis acuminatis.
Abies major sinensis, pectinatis Taxi foliis subtus csesiis, conis grandioribus, sursitm rigentibus, foliorum
et squamarum apiculis spinosis. Pluk. Amallh. Bot. 1. t. 351. Jig. 1.
Habitat in China.
D E SC R IP T IO .
Folia sessilia, undique patenti-deflexa, sesquiuncialia, lanceolata, acuminato-pungentia, rigida, plana,
integerrima, margine scabriuscula. Amenta nondum nobis innotuere. Stroiili magnitudine nucis
Juglandis, sessiles, nutantes, globosi, lseyes, squamis ovatis, acutis, mucronulatis.
T he fine specimen from which the figure was taken, was brought to England by Sir George
Leonard Staunton, Bart, and is now in the Banksian herbarium. The Province in which it was seen
growing was Chekiang.
P. lanceolata is so strikingly different from all the other species of this genus, that it can never be
confounded with any one of them. Its large globular cones, and the singularity of their scales, with
the broadness of its leaves, at once distinguish it. The latter have a glaucous hue on the under surface,
and terminate, as well as the scales, in bristly points.
This tree has not yet been introduced into this country, nor have I heard of any attempt being
made to raise it from seed.
EXPLANATION OF TAB. 34.
a, a. Leaves.
b. Scale of a Cone.
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