cones in very lax panicles, solitary, binate, or ternate 
at the ends of decurved branchlets, sessile, ovoid-oblong, 
about one-sixth of an inch long, many-fid., yellow, with 
red-brown anthers; bracts in several series, orbicular; 
stamens 1-3, exserted from a bilabiate tubular perianth. — 
Fem. cones much larger, solitary at the ends of the 
branchlets, one-half to three-quarters of an inch long; 
bracts in about three pairs, orbicular, lower pair or pairs 
very small, uppermost pair much larger, connate for two- _ 
thirds of their length, swelling greatly, and forming a — 
red fleshy cup as the seed ripens. Integument of the se 
thin, tip exserted, terminating in a usually twisted tubulus 
Seeds one to three, ellipsoid, if solitary angular, if binate 
plano-convex, if three trigonous.—J. D. H. ; 
Fig. 1, Male cone; 2, bracts of the same; 3, bract and perianth; 4, unripe 
fem. cone ; 5, ripe ditto, with peduncle and portion of stem ; 6, single ripe fem. 
cone ; 7, seed : all enlarged ; 8, panicle of male spikes of the zat. size. 
