StUTCil OF THJ3 tJOJtlFEKS OF JAPAK. 



Cones (fig, 63) pendent by a short Stalk, thick, deflexed, and 

 clothed with persistent imbricated scales, cjliiidrical, straight, ot 

 somewhat curved, one side being rounder than the other, 3 to 4^ 

 inches long, IJ to 1| in diameter; scales (fig. 72) dirty-cinereous 

 brown, coriaceous, downy, imbricated, rounded at the margin, 

 which is broad, wedge-shaped at the base and thinly mem- 

 branaceous and under a lens appearing irregularly crenulated, 

 bearing long lanceolate, or sub-rhomboidal, sharp, keeled bracts, 

 which are supported on a long wedge-shaped stalk or base, 

 and have their margin glabrous, niembranaceous, and irre- 



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Fi£C. 72. 



gnlarly laciuiated or crenulated. When ripe, in autumn, the 

 scales drop off from the axis and fall along with the seedf. 

 Goncretions of resin are usually found adhering to or exuding 

 froai the cone ; the resin is pale, not quite colourless, but with a 



