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covered with foliage, in consequence of the large size and breadth 

 of the leaves. Trunk dark fuscous-brown, rough. Branches palo 

 brown; branchlets yellowish green; pulvini very slightly prominent 

 (fig. 173), allied to but not the same as those of the Larch, slightly 

 contracted at the top, then slightly swolleii and again contracted, 

 and then running down for along space, scarcely definable except 

 at the top; phyllultB (fig, 174) appearing pentagonal, but more cor 



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rectly speaking tetragonal, with the angle next the branch partially 

 effaced from not being wholly separated from it. Leaves deciduous, 

 clustered in whorls on the older branches (fig. 175), scattered singly 

 at Ipng distances along the young shoots (fig. 176), from 1 to 2^ 

 inches long and from 4^ to 1 line broad, flat, linear, sabre-shaped 

 (fig. 177), somewhat soft, and of a delicate pale pea-green colour 

 when young — in autumn of a golden yellow, without stomata on the 

 upper side (fig. 178), and with from 8 or 9 to 15 or 16 rows of 

 stomata on each side of the mid-rib on the lower side (fig. 179), mid- 



