vated central ridge: those of the older branches are smaller, 
shorter, more compact, and crowded, ovato-lanceolate, acute. 
Male. flowers unknown. Of the cones we are only acquainted 
with fully ripe ones, from which the seeds had been removed ; 
they are nearly two inches long, by one and three-quarters inch 
broad in the widest part, ovate, obtuse, sessile? ligneous, com- 
posed of a central axis (or apophysis), of a stoutish cylindrical 
form, bearing a number of rather large, thick, spreading scales, 
of the same substance and texture as the apophysis, and forming 
one with it, by means of the thickened base; the thickness of 
the scale is increased by the entire union of the éractea with the 
scale: its apex dilated, convex, transversely rhomboideal, with a ~ 
transverse, elevated ridge or keel, and in the centre an umbo- 
nated depression. Beneath each scale, according to Dr. Lindley, 
are lodged seven seeds, exactly as in Sciadopitys; and these 
seeds of the same shape, too, as in that genus, that is, nearly 
orbicular, compressed, small, less than one line long, scarcely 
winged at the margins. 
Tab. 4777. Representation of the entire tree, reduced with Mr. Veitch’s per- 
mission from his plate above alluded to.—Tab. 4778. Fig. A, Small specimens of 
a young branch. B. Older specimen :—nat. size. Fig. 1. Foliage from A. 2. 
Foliage from B :—both magnified. 3. Cone :—nat. size. 4. Vertical section of 
a cone :—nat. size. 5. Seeds :—magnified. 
