leaf, densely clustered, involucrate, clavate-cylindric, 14-2 
in. long; the cataphyllaries scarious, brown, lanceolate, 
very acuminate, fimbriate, 2—$ in. long. Jnvolucral scales 
10-12, like the cataphyllaries but smaller, entire and not 
acuminate ; anthers very many. female cones spuriously 
terminal, solitary, erect, stipitate, the stipe clothed with 
many scales; carpels small, at length almost disappearing ; 
ovule-bearing scales caudate, with rounded bases. Fruit- 
cones when ripe or nearly so lateral, pendulous, oblong 
cylindric before opening, 6-7 in. long, almost. ellipsoid 
after opening, becoming brownish; seed-bearing scales 
pais Seeds samaroid, including the wing about 12 in. 
ong. 
Fig. 1, two clusters of mature leaves; 2,a-shoot bearing male flowers and 
young leaves; 3 and 4, anthers; 5, a shoot bearing young leaves, a female 
flower and a nearly mature cone; 6,7 and 8, carpel and ovuliferous scale in 
different positions; 9,a female flower, somewhat advanced ; 10, a seed-bearing 
scale with a trace of the undeveloped carpel; 11 and 12, seeds :—1, 2, 5 and 10, 
of natural size, the other figures variously enlarged. 
