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SKETCH OP THE CONIFERS OF JAPAN 



is pale fawn, and of tlie older ones reddish. Buds short, small, sub- 

 globose, covered by a very few reddish-brown soft membranaceous 

 semi-transparent scales, ^Yhich have no midrib, and the edge 

 smooth. Leaves numerous, closely approximated, spirally 

 arranged round the branches, the pulvini being twisted, so as to 

 direct them distinctly on each side of the twig, solitary, linear, 

 short and narrow, sub-teti'agonal, flattish, curling backwards, 

 varying m length from -^ to f of an inch in length, and from ^ 

 to f of a line in breadth, with the tip obtusely rounded (fig. 103); the 

 upper face ^Yithout stomata, and in the dried specimens with a 



Fig. IQ4:. 

 Upper Side 



Fig. 107. 



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" rt • • " 



Fig. 105. 



Under side 



Fig. 103. 

 Upper side. 



FiiT. 108. 



Fig. 109 



Fig, 110, 



broadish raised line in the middle, and a narrower one on eacli 

 side of it (fig. 104). Tliese may be the result of drying, and may 

 all be represented by a single raised central line in the fresh 



the 



with a single raised line in 



specimens ; the under side 

 middle, ^vith about 5 rows of stomata (at intervals more nume- 

 rous) covered with a whitish hue on each side, between it and the 

 thickened margin (fig, 105). The base simple, transverse, and not 

 twisted, the result obtained by the twisting of the leaf, namely, 

 the spreading out the leaves horizontally, being here produced by 

 the apex of the pulvini being twisted instead. Inflorescence not 

 observed- The cones (fig. 1 00) are reddish-fawn coloured, not unlike 

 those of the common spruce growing pendent at the ends of 



