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other from its r£ot agreeing with tlie descriptiou in the text, 

 which speaks of the scales being reflexed, a character well shown 

 in the figure of the true coue of Koralens'u (fig. 1). Tlie smaller 

 figure Riven by Siebold (fig. 2D) is also a cone of P. parviflora. 



Fig. 25 



Fig. 26. 



Fi". 27 



akhough a very small old, bad, and uncharacteristic specimen. 

 His, or Zuccarlui's, description, has beeh probably taken from it, as 

 he speaks of the cone ha\ing only 20 scales, which seem about 

 the number on it, but this is qui'te a mistake— the number of 

 scales on all cones varies with the size of the cone, and in the 

 specimens brought by Mr. Veitch, instead of being only 20 

 scales, there arc upwards of 50, as stated above. Another more 

 serious error made by Siebold and Zuccarini is that they say 

 that the seeds of P. parvifiora are apterous. Very commonly 

 they will be found so, from the wings being short and easily 

 broken off, but the figures of two (fig. 25) nearly perfect examples, 



