nerves, sometimes with resinous dots on both surfaces ; 

 main lateral veins 6-10 on each side ; petiole 1-2 in. 

 long. Male catkins 3-6 in a terminal raceme, each 

 catkin 2-4| in. long. Female catkins (cones) solitary or 

 2-3 in an erect raceme ; in fruit ovoid or ellipsoid, 

 1-1 \ in. long, ?,— | in. wide. Nutlets suborbicular with a 

 marginal wing. 



Figs. 1 and 2, scales with male flowers; 3, a male flower ; 4 and 5, scales 

 with female flowers ; 6 and 7, fruit scales with nutlets ; 8, gland-scale from 

 nutlet : — all enlarged. 



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