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SKETCH OP THE CONIFERS OF JAPAN. 



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longe protractis arcuatis ascendentibus, stroLilig cjlindricis ; 

 squarais chartaceis laxis rectangulis apice dentatis, bracteis mini- 

 mis ovatis mucrouatis, seminum alis ovatis acutis subdentatia. 



Habitat in Japonia, prope Hakodadi. 



Fig. Ill, — Abies microsperma. 



A tree 40 or 50 feet in height, nearly allied to A. Alcocqulana ; 

 brauchlets very rough from the projections of the pulvini; the 

 phyllulse transversely rhomboidal ; pulvini long, -^ith projections 



like pegs near the apex, and in the young branchlets 

 twisted. In general appearance the denuded twigs are so 

 like those of A. Alcocquiana that the same figure mif'ht 

 serve for both. The pulvini of this species are how- 

 bo th above and below the pro- 



ever a little longer 



Fig. 112 re- 



jection on \Yhich the phyllula rests, 

 presents one of the pulvini dissected out. The colour 

 of the young branchlets is pale testaceous. Buds as 

 in A, Alcocquiana. Leaves numerous, closely approxi- 

 mated, arranged as in A. Alcocquiana, solitary, linear 

 and narrow flattish and subtetragonal (fig. 113), 



Fi 112 ^^^^^'^ ^^ ^^ -^* Alcocquiana, but longer, and usually 

 ^^' • with a greater number of rows of stomata (6 to 10) on the 

 underside (fig. 114), no stomata on the upper side (fig. 115). 

 Length from } inch to 1 or 1} inch, and the breadth from | to 

 I of a line; the tip is more apiculate than in A. Alcocquiana; 

 the base^ is simple and not twisted, the base of the phyllula 

 being twisted instead, as in A. Alcocquiana. Inflorescence not 



