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SKETCH OF THE COIS^IFEES OP JAPAN. 



\^ holly adpressed to the branchlet; pbyllulse semi-orbicular. (Fig. 

 143,) Buds surrounded \N-ith scales vihkh are very numerous 

 and imbricated; the lower scales ovate, obtuse, keeled, glabrous, 

 coriaceous, abbreviated, persistent, but not placed remote from 

 each other; the upper (and inner) scales much longer, spathulate, 

 obtuse, membi-anaceous, and deciduous. Leaves (fig. 144) from 

 6 to 10 lines long, perennial, approximated, and alternate, but 

 subdistichous from the louver leaves being more or less twisted 

 at the base, distinctly stalked, ^vith the stalk rather long 

 and slender and slightly curved, linear, generally obtuse and 

 emarginate, rarely somewhat sharp pointed, entire, glabrous, 

 coriaceous, above deep clear green, -without storaata (fig. 145), 

 below keeled with a midrib, on each side of ^vhich is a \N'hite line 

 of from 7 to 10 storaata (fig, 146), Male catkins (fig. 147) 





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growing in the axillae of tbe branclilets of the preceding j'ear, 

 scattered, solitary, encircled with scales; the scales more nume- 

 rous than in the leaf-bearing buds, closely imbricated in other 

 respects conformable to them ; the catkins themselves cylindrical, 

 stipitate, ^vith a straight stijff slender cylindrical stalk, longer 

 than the scales. Stamens (fig. 148) numerous, at first closely 

 imbricate, afterwards somewhat looser, spreading out horizontally, 

 father long; the filaments filiform, dilated at the apex into a scale, 

 or a stpall spathulate obtuse entire coriaceous connective appendix, 



