SKETCH OF THE CONIFERS OF JAPAN. 



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Fig. 86. 



phyllulis rotundato triangulatis vel circularibus, pulvinis obsoleti?, 

 ramulis junioribus rubiginose hirtis, strobilis subcj'lindricis rectius- 

 culis, squamis couvexis baud horizontaliter positis corneis basi 

 cuneatis pedicellatis apice rotundatis, bracleis teuuibus ante 

 medium amplificatis apiculatis, seminibus angulatis cuneatis ala 

 magna elongata et explanata. 



Occurrit prope templum Koo-shan, juxta Foo-cbow-foo in China, 



A magnificent tree, ^Yitb the port of a cedar of Lebanon. 

 Branclilets clothed in the young state with a rubigineous 

 pubescence, which afterwards disappears, 

 smooth, with the phyllulse roundish, and 

 scarcely depressed (fig. 86). The pulvini 

 almost obsolete (fig. 87); in the older 

 branchlets the outer epidermis of the bark 

 splits up between the phjilulae, making a sort of 

 large diamond-shaped reticulation. Buds short, 

 subglobose. The leaves are not veiy closely ap- 

 proximated, distichously arranged, solitary, sessile, 

 somewhat sabre-shaped and expanded, small and 

 soft in their youth, becoming stiff and firm with 

 age, of a very brilliant green on both faces, paler 

 on the under side, varying in length from to 13 

 lines, and | to 1 line in diameter, terminated in a 

 strong point, with about 16 rows of stomata on 

 each side of the middle on the under face, and 

 usually none on the upper face (figs. 84 and 85), 

 although sometimes two or three rows may be 

 seen, especially near the tip. Fig, 88 is taken from 



Pig. 87. 



an old leaf from one of Fortune's specimens (under side). Fig. 



89 from a soft young leaf of a plant raised from the seed sent by 



him. Fig, 90 shows the upper side of the point of a leaf from 



the base of one of the cones ; fig. 91, its under side ; and fig. 92, 



a bidentate apex which sometimes occurs in the leaf. The 



inflorescence not observed. Tlie cones of a beautiful bluish 



purple before they are ripe ; when ripened, of a brown colour, 



which still retains some of the purplish bloom. They grow 



erect and numerous along the horizontal branches on a short 



thick stalk, large, from 6 to 8 inches in length, and 2 J in 



diameter, rather straight, obtusely rounded at each end. Scales 



large, convex, rather longer than broad, pedicellate, with the 



apical margin rounded, the basal half cuneate (fig 93, inner side, 



and fig. 04, outer side), dull, and tomentose. Bracts (fig. 95), 



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