SKETCH OF THE CONIFEES OF JAPAN. 



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from the base of wliicli descend two divergent elliptical longitudi- 

 nally bivalve loculi. Female catkins (fig» 149) solitary, terminal 



Fig. 148. 



Fig. 149. 



on tbe branchlets of the preceding year, erect, at first inclosed in 

 scales as much as the 'male catkins, afterwards emerging on a short 

 footstalk, to whose base the scales are persistent. Cones (fig. 141) 

 ripen the first autumn, small, not an inch in length, sub-elliptical, 

 narrowest at the apex, remaining on the tree after the fall of the 

 seeds. ^Scales (fig. 150, back, and fig. 151, inside, with seeds) 

 about 30 in number, imbricated, coriaceous, glabrous on the out- 

 side where exposed, tomentose inside and where covered on the 



Fig. 150 



Fig. 151 



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Fig. 153. 



outside by the neighbouring scales, and somewLat sinning pale 



brown, nearly orbicular, deeply emarginate and stipitate at the 



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