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imbricated scales. Cones solitary, on a very short, lateral branch, 
but rising erect; our specimen is more than three inches long, 
exclusive of the spines, four and a half inches to the tip of the 
uppermost spines, broad, ovate, formed of copious, imbricated, 
somewhat unguiculate, entire, obtuse scales, having an obcordate 
appendage or bractea on the back, from the apex or sinus of 
which a long, rigid, linear, subulate, leaf-like (but narrower than 
the leaf) spine arises, slightly curved inwards, two inches long, 
including the base. Within the scale, and lying pressed against 
the inside of it, are two somewhat oval seeds, each with a broad, 
cuneate, and somewhat oblique wing. 
Fig. 1. Outside of a scale, with its appendage and spine. 2. Inside of ditto, 
showing the seeds. 3. A seed :—wat. size. 
