2 PINETUM B R I T A N N I C U M.
the hack, anil with three, four, or five rows on cach of the inner sides [figs. 3 and 4]. Sheaths half an inch
long, falling off very soon, so that they are only seen on half-developed
I j leaves, and surrounded hy long straight membraneous imbricated brown
/ scales [fig. 5 natural size, and fig. 6 the same magnified]. It flowers
from the end of April to the middle of June, according to exposure, and
the cones take eighteen months to mature. Male catkins purple, terminal,
and sessile, surrounded by brown imbricated scales, short, obtuse,
conic [fig. 7, a cluster of catkins; and fig. 8, a single catkin, magnified];
the anthers bilocular, the crest oval, and with a lacerated margin [fig. 9 '«J- ^'f^*-
front view and fig. 10 side view]. Female catkins, growing three or four together, oblong
cylindrical, with a ver)' short peduncle, which aftenvards becomes longer.
[Fig. II shews the young female catkin of its natural size, and fig. 12 the
same magnified.] Cones, before impregnation, crect, and violet rose colour:
after impregnation, pendent, and with a dull greenish hue spreading over them
like a bloom, afterwards pale brown ; about 6 inches long, cylindrical, smooth,
and .slightly curved and pointed at the apex, ripening in Sejitember and
October of the second year. Scales loosely imbricated, elongate,
with the apophysi.s .slighdy thickened in the
middle, thinned at the edges, obliquely rounded
at the margin, veiy finely longitudinally striated, . \
and with a slightly pointed, short, broad, darker
umbo at the apex, constricted at the base [fig.
13 back, and fig.
what wedgc-sha])ed,
fieil-J
[ front of scale from middle of cone, grown
in the Ilimmalayas: and fig. 15 back and fig.
16 front of similar scale from Knglish-grown
specimen]. The remains of a bract, usually
regulariy broken and defaced, adhere to the
Ixick [fig, 17 natural size, and fig. iS niagni-
I he seedi [fig. 19 foreign growth, and fig, 20 FLnglish
rowth] are not ver)' large (about the size of a
small pea), ovate, flattened on both sides, black,
with .some grey spots : wing from three-fourths
,-^V to an inch in length, oblong obtuse, with the
'''s-'" P ' e b a c k straight. The cotyledons average about
ne in number. The cones shed their seeds towards the latter end of November,
months afterwards hanging to the branches.
This species is very closely allied in habit and
the figure of its cones to Pinus Stro/ws nnd /'.
monticola. Lambert first pointed out the difference
in the crest of the anthers, which is a gnod specific
chararter. The form of the crest of the anther in
P. Strokis is represented in figs, 21 and 22, copied
from Lambert, which m.iy bi; contrasted with fig.
'''' '•*' 10 above and fig. 23. a less cliararterislic drawing
opied from Lambert. The greater size of the leaves and the larger cones, and
the tree, furnish charaders which, although not perhaps so easily de.scribed, are more
Major Madden notes that on the northern side of the Roojiin Pass many speci
with bright green leaves, which at other places are mingled widi foliage of the gl;
to the tree on the lower mountains.
PINUS EXCI-:LS.'V
Dr Griffith speaks of a species which he met whh at 9500 feet in a
very like Pinus exce/sa, but dilTercd in having erect leaves. (Griffith's
npany with ^l/nes morinda, which
Itinerary Notes," i>. 149,) Thi.s
0 s
may have been P. Pence or some other unknown Strohtts. In Nepaul, too, Dr W'allich observed a variety
which appeared to him to come chiser to P. S/robus than the usual form. (Royle's " Illustrations,"^
Information is to be desired about these forms.
Cnvgra/>kiea/ D i s / n l m f i o n — T ^ \ s . species is found along the whole of the llinimalayan range, except
in Sikkim ; also in Haiti, Thibet, and in AfTghanistan. In the following table we have brought together
;dl the localities which we have found recorded of its occurrence, the greatest i)art of which we owe to
Major Maddens paper above quoted. We begin at the easternmost jxirtion ofthe Ilimm.alayas. foHowing
the range westwards; and noting not only the localities where it it
it is absent, and where it might at first sight be expeded to be r
nd, but those in the linu where
let with.
Oil lliL' rang« wliicii the Mo-
Gcnerally clistribuletl
I liy.ins ,
Rikliolee Goodret-
Mountains on soutli side of U
as far down as tl.c Pala] Gi
hind I.ungsiiC Ghat
From Lunj.'see Glut up the (
Ihe Uhouleir
.\sceni ofthe Nuctw Pass -,,•
the must easterly locality for thii
I'ine.
On ihe northern face of Uiis range | Honker, "Flora !ndica,"i), 177,
Common on southern aspccti, forminf; Griffith, "JoumaK of Travels." 211,
lai^c and beautiful wo"ds, at from J37. 239, 264, 2S5, 2»-, 293.
6000 to 10,000 feet next above I'inm W, S. VVehb.
hnp/olia ami below Aiia mormda
Hooker, "Flora Indic,-!," p, iSi.
None .\Ujor Madden sivss I>r Hooker ai
hia authority for saying that there
are none in Eastern Nepaul; but we
do not find this statement in the
••Flora Indica,"
't he liigbcst and largest moumain at Dr Wallich,
this iiart ofthe range
' Major Madden, •'Joum. llcrt-S««."
Dr Francis Hamilton, "Account of Nepaul,"
and liuchanan-
I'robably introduced. Major Madden
1 North of Nepaul Dc Hooker, "Flora Indica,"
On the Upper Kalee, where Kumaon Cap lain Strachey,
borders on the Nepaul province of
Dote«
None Do,
Do,
\ spur from Trisool Native report, but not observed so far
«outh-east by Euroi>ean^i
Nc-ar Kainrec Do,
Iklow Abifs morinda and PiiM Pin- Major Madden and I-t R, .Strachey,
I)..
Dr Jamieson, I.t, R, Strachcy, and Mr
Commi5',ioncr Uatten.
Uppermost and only Pine there met Do.
with • -
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