SKETCH OP THE CONIFERS OF JAPAN, 



635 



Bate, acute, or slightly obtuse, usually attenuated towards the base, 

 and sub-petiolate, with the margin entire, uader side hollow with 



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Fig. 155. — Larix Leptolepis, far, minor. 



a very prominent midrib, on each side of which 

 are 4 or 5 rows of stomata (fig- 158); when 

 young, from 6 to 8, when old from IS to 14 

 lines long. Flowers not seen. Cones (fig. 

 154) 16 lines in length, and 8 in breadth; 

 number of scales about 60, coloured yellowish 

 brown, growing at the tips of the abbreviated 

 lateral branchlets, ovate, obtusely rounded, 

 ripening the first year, and remaining empty 

 on the branch after the fall of the seed. 

 Scales (fig. 159) closely alternately imbricated, 

 attenuated, and with a shore stalk at the base, 

 further up orbicular, with the margin trun- 

 cate or emarginate, reflexed, undulated and 

 snb - membranaceous, the rest coriaceous, 

 slightly and somewhat parallely striated, 



Fig. 156. 



— (Copied 

 from SieboW.) 



glabrous, with a slight sparingly scattered pubescence, pale 

 cinereous brown. Bracts (fig, 160) with a projecting mid-rib, 

 raucronate, or acute and lanceolate, or at least apparently so 



