These preparations were selected from slides of more than 
800 different specimens represented by nearly 2200 slides. 
Serial sections of four strobili (three male, one female) 
have been made. 
The largest individual strobilus which I have observed 
has alength of 18 mm. and a maximum width of 7.5 mm. 
The proportion of length to width is approximately two 
to one. The average size of twelve good female strobili is 
10.5 mm. X5.2 mm. The width varies considerably (8.5 
to 5.7 mm.), but some distortion may have been respon- 
sible for the extremes. 
The best preserved male strobilus is 11 mm. long and 
4.8 mm. wide, although two good specimens are broader 
(10 mm. long and 6 mm. wide). 
In both male and female strobili the enveloping 
woody bracts vary from 8.5 mm. to nearly 6 mm. in 
length, the average being 4.5 mm. The bracts are broad 
at the base, curve upwards and inwards (at least when 
young), and gradually taper to a narrow, sometimes 
pointed tip. Bracts provided with a single leaf-trace com- 
posed of a number of spiral tracheids, surrounded by 
crushed phloem which is miserably preserved. The trace 
has been termed ‘‘protostelic,’” but ‘‘mesarch’’ is more 
suitable. 
It appears, then, that the strobilus is a very simple 
organ system borne in the axil of a bract. This is best 
shown on figure 3 which reveals a single ovulate strobilus 
on ashort thick pedicel, the whole strobilar aggregation 
being axillary. Figure 1, a more mature inflorescence 
shows (at least in the middle strobilus to the left of the 
axis) a short bract. 
The whole fructification, it would seem to me, is a 
naked branch system bearing a number of small strobili. 
I have before me an impression of an inflorescence attrib- 
uted to Cordaianthus gemmifer Grand’ Eury, a poorly 
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