hike shoots. Cladodes in verticils of 20-30, spreading, 
two to four inches long, linear, rigid, apex obtuse 
minutely bifid, dark green and shining with a median 
groove above, paler beneath with a white median furrow. 
Male flowers ovoid, half an inch long, in a terminal com- 
pact raceme, about one inch long, subsessile, with a few 
short membranous bracts. Stamens broadly oblong, 
shortly stipitate, apex acute reflexed. Cells, 2, pendu- 
lous, oblong, dehiscing by a vertical slit. Pollen globular, 
minutely tuberculate. Female cone terminal, afterwards 
thrown to one side by the growth a lateral branch, 
often crowned by sterile cladodes, about three inches 
long, one and a half inch broad, oblong-ovoid, shortly 
stalked ; peduncle with a few membranous bracts. Ovuli- 
Jerous scale rather large, about three-quarters of an inch 
wide, longer than and adnate to the subtending bract, 
orbicular-rhomboid, fleshy, green below, with a brown 
margin, Bract membranous, apex acute reflexed. Ovules 
6-9, compressed —W. T. T.-D. 
Fig. 1, section of leaf, magnified; 2, anther front, and 3, back view, 
magnified ; 4, bract and ovuliterous scale back, and 5, front view (young); 
6, young ovule (magnified); 7, bract and ovuliferous scale back, and 8, front 
view of latter (mature) ; 9, young seed magnified. 
