P I C E A P I N S A P O.
ION.—ABIES PINSAPO, Boiffier in Biblioth. Univ. Genev. (1838) ; ISoilfier, Eleneh. PI. Hifp. n„ 197 (1838) ; Boiffier, Voy. Bolan
dans le Midi de CEfpagne, p. 584, t. 167 to 169(1839-45); Spach, Hist. Nat. Vég. PUner., xi. p. 413 (1842); Endlicher,
Syn. Conif., p. 109 (1847) ; Lindley and Gordon in Journ. Iiort. Soc., v. p. 211 (1850) ; Lawson, Abietina, p. 13 (1851 ) :
Carrière, Traité Gin. 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, Pinelum, p. 159
(.858).
ABIES HISPANICA, De Chambray, Traité Prat. Arbr. Rés. Conif, p. 339 (1845).
PI NSA PO of the Spaniards. The Cones. CARJUELOS.
Specific Character.—Abies foliis ramorum fterilium linearibus planis acutis, fertilium oblufis subtereti
fediformibus, ftrobilis erectis ovato-cylindricis, bracteis parvis inclufis obovatis, marginatis et mucronatis.
Habitat in montibus Hifpanias meridionalis, necnon uti videtur ctiam in vicinze Africa: regno Maroccano.
A tree from 60 to 70 feet high, branched down to the very root. Branches verticillate and horizontal.
Phyllulce 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
twifted at the bafe, nor pedicellate, and difpofed in afcending fpirals round the branch, cylindrical, fubglaucous,
very ftiff, obtufe on the younger fruit-bearing branches [fig. 2], acute on the older, never emarginate,
Ihort, compreffed, almofl 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, diftindt, and not fo crowded as in P. Cephalonica
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, rufefcent, obtufe, fublacerated fcales; externally, very refinous, and united at
the bafe by an involucre which adheres for feveral years. Anthers bilocular, feflile, of a reverfed pyramidal
form on the upper furface, keel-ribbed, opening on the under side tranfverfely by a fiffure in the middle,
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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,
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