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SKETCH OF THE CONIFERS OF JAPAN. 



but four or five rows of storaata ou each sides of the keel (fig. 18 

 and 19), all these edges serrulated. The male catkins sessile, 



oblong, situated at the lower part of the young 

 branches, scaly, very numerous, and thickly 

 crowded into a cj'lindrical spike one or two inches 



long 



(fi 



g- 



20). 



Stamens numerous, densely 

 imbricated, with straight cylindrical filaments. 

 Anthers biloculate, opening behind with a longi- 

 tudinal slit. Cones (fig. 13 above) from two to 

 four inches in lengtli, erect elliptic-ovat obtuse, 

 composed of five spiral rows of scales, each 

 containing about 10 scales in the spiral, or 

 about^SP in all ; scales ashy brown, broad, wedge- 

 shaped .from the base, ■ suborbicular, where 

 Fig, 14. Fig. 15. exposed rounded, coricaceous or almost woody 



/in texture (fig. 21), concave on the inner side, 

 and with a Very deep abrupt spoon-shaped hollow to receive the 

 seeds (fig. 22), this hollow moat frequently unilocular, 

 generally containing two seeds. Sometimes however there is only 

 one seed. Figs. 23 and 24 are copied from Siebold's engravings 

 of the same parts. Bracts obsolete. Seeds somewhat obliquely 

 elliptic-obovate, obtuse at both ends, like the seed of the common 

 P. cemhra^ with a short broad dark-brown wing (fig. 25). Test 

 or shell osseous dark brown, smooth, hut opaqvie ; internal tunic 

 brown, membraneous; embryo with eight or ten short linear ver- 

 ticillate cot^^ledons. 



although 



This 



IS a 



and 



Koraiensis '' rQ.\\ie^T lend to 



good and distinct species^ although Siebold 



of it and P- 



very 

 Zuccarini's descriptions and 



figures 



The 



habit 



of the 



foliage 



suggest 



doubts on the subject, 

 is very distinct, and the leaf itself 

 is much shorter, although its form and the disposition of its 

 storaata is very much the same. Still they are not so much alike 

 as they appear in Siebold's magnified figures, and the rows of 

 stomata are more numerous in the one than in the other, being 

 6 or 7 in P. Koraiensis, and obly 4 or 5 in P. pairiflora* The 

 cones are also very distinct, as may be seen by comparing that 

 at the head of this description with that at the head of the 

 description of P. Koralensis, which are both taken from specimens 

 furnished by Mr. Yeitch, the foliage and other parts of which 

 obrrespond too closely with the rest of Siebold's descriptions to 

 leave a doubt of their being true examples of these species. The 

 truth ig, as already mentioned, that Siebold and Zuccarini have 



