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SKETCH OF THE COiTIFERS OF JAFAN. 



side dolabrata, Pino densifiora rel. cousociata. Floret, vere 

 maturat strobiles autumno. 



Fig. 151 



A tree with tlie habit of a lai'cb, but more slender; it grows 

 to the height of 40 feet. Its timber, when mature, is reddish- 

 bro\Yn, and tough. Branches round, glabrous, dirty yellowish- 

 ash coloured, the branchlets browner, spreading stiffly ; pulvini 

 angularly decurrent, sub-convex, equally thick throughout, wholly 

 adpressed to the branch, and crowned with semi-orbicular phyllulae. 

 Buds scattered over the whole length of the branch, scaled ; the 

 scales imbricated alternately, broadly ovate, rounded, coriaceous, 

 glabrous shining brown, after the expansion of the twig remaining 

 persistent around the base of the branches. Leaves annual, 

 single, distinctly alternate in the fresh pushing branchlets, in 

 the lateral abbreviated buds or •undeveloped shoots very much 

 approximated or clustered together as in a whorl or bundle of 

 many leaves (fig.157), needle-shaped, very narrowly linear, mucro- 



