SKETCH OF THE CONIFEES OP JAPAN. 



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at the apex, very feebly creimlated at the margin, and some- 

 what shorter than the filament, bilocular, the loculi yellow, 

 ohlong, parallel and closely applied, and open behind. The 

 female catkins (fig, 198) are at first sessile, surroijpded at the 

 base by coriaceous scales, afterwards T\-ith a short peduncle, and 

 the scales persistent around it; the scales numerous, imbricated, 

 glabrous, entire, seraiorbicular, broadly \veclge-shaped from the base, 

 rounded at the margin which is reflexed, bearing truncate wedge- 

 shaped bracts one half shorter than the scale, thickened towards 

 the apex, at first adhering only at the base, afterwards throughout. 

 Ovules seven to nine in number, j>kced in a transverse series along 

 the upper face of the scale, freely pendulous and not embedded 

 iuthe scale, imbricated ou each other, naked, elliptical, compressed, 

 emarginate at the apex, perforated and pervious at the micro- 

 pyle. Cones (figs. 184 and 194) ripe in the second year, elliptico- 

 cylindrical, obtuse, about 3 inches long and 1| inch in diameter, when 

 opened nearly as broad as long (fig. 194). Scales (fig. 195) broadly 



Fifi. 195a. 



Fig, 



1955. 



Fig. 195c. 



wedge-shaped towards the base, semiorbicular where exposed, with 

 the margin irregularly interrupted and partially reflexed ; dirty 

 greyish-brown, corrugated, longitudinally opaque, dull and finely 

 downy or pubescent ; the tip of the margin is rather thin, but a 

 little behind the scale becomes tumid, faHing in again where it 

 meets the bract. Bracts (shown in fig. 195a) closely applied and 

 adherent to the scale, as broad as the scale and about half 

 its length, with its margin thickened, forming a transverse 

 corticaceous fungoid looking crest, longitudinally corrugated lilve 

 the scales, but more finely, and where they are exposed, as at the 

 base of the cone, they are seen to be glabrous. Seeds (figs. 195i 



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on each other, and arranged in a single transverse series (fig. 

 195), the outer seeds lowest, the middle one on the top, elliptical, 

 flat, compressed with a membranaceous wing, excised at the 

 xnicropyle ; the test membranaceous, brown. 



.E'ound wild in the eastern parts of Nippon, ou the Koya ridge 



