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| 6rAnswers to Baron A. Humboldt’s queries
on Botanical Geography.
Note the addressee (inserted within the line) par Mr Brown
N 1. I have no reason to believe that any
species of Pinus is found in the Southern
hemisphere.
– 2[.] The Araucaria of Brazil
(no doubt the
Pino of the inhabitants) of which we
have
seeds and specimens with young female aments,
appears to be the
same as that of Chili..
– 3[.] There are at least two species of Pinus
in India. P.
longifolia
of
Roxb.
& Lambert,
and P. Deodwara
of Eine erste Edition der Flora Indica gab William Carey zwischen 1820 und 1824
heraus (Roxburgh/Carey/Wallich
1820–1824).
[Close]Roxbs.
unpublished flora indica,
which is nearly allied to P. Cedrus..
Neither of them are known to grow within the
tropic..
of
P. longifolia[.]
Roxburgh says that it
is found among
the mountains of Nepaul and
on those
north of the plains of Bengal, Oude &c[.]
P. Deodwara is a native of the mountains
North of
Rohilcund[.]
– 4[.] I possess no correct information concerning
the Pines of Thibet nor even of those
of China
except Pinus Massoniana
of Lambert, of which
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