The pinnae figured on t, 8592 are rather wider than is 
usual in this species. 
DeEscriptTion.— Tree with a cylindric stem, sometimes 
very short or at times up to 20 ft. in height, 1 ft. in 
diameter, closely beset with persistent imbricating leaf- 
bases. Leaves suberect or—at least in cultivated speci- 
mens—with the outer spreading, rigid, slightly recurved, 
up to 9 ft. in length, 1 ft. wide, petiole and rachis at first 
woolly but soon becoming glabrous and ultimately quite 
smooth, terete; pinnae 50-70 along each side increasing in 
size from the base to the middle, the central ones obliquely 
linear-lanceolate, with acute spinescent tips, up to 9 in. 
long, 3-1 in. wide, with from 4-1 (usually 2-3) spines 
on each side, the uppermost spine generally some distance 
below the tip, rigidly leathery, quite glabrous, indistinctly 
parallel-nerved, the lowermost pinnae very short and 
coarsely spinous-toothed. Male cone pedunculate, cylin- 
dric, 8-18 in. long, 21-4 in. thick; scales as seen from 
behind wide-obovate, with dilated rhomboid tip, 2-3 in. 
wide, 3 in. long, contracting somewhat in drying, brick- 
red or greenish-red, their lateral angles acute, above and 
below blunt, marked by a transverse raised line and by 
a second ridge extending from the upper angle to the 
middle; peduncle up to 34 in. long, woolly, sparingly 
scaly. /emale cone subsessile, cylindric, up to 2 ft. long and. 
7 in. thick, leather-yellow ; scales as seen from behind 
anchor-shaped, the head up to 2 in. wide and 1 in. long, 
claw 1] in. long, tip rhomboid up to 2 in. wide and 1 in. 
long with a raised process, as in the scales of cones of 
various species of Pinus, close to the lower angle and 
truncate at its tip. Seeds ellipsoid or ovoid, vermilion, 
1} in. long, } in. across. 
_Tas. 8592. Fig. 1, a male scale; 2 and 8, anthers before and after the 
discharge of their pollen respectively; 4, sketch of the entire male plant :— 
1 of natibral size, 2 and 3 enlarged, 4 much reduced. 
Tas. 8593. Fig. 1, seale and seeds ; 2, sketch of the entire female plant :— 
1 of natural size, 2 much reduced. 
