i8o postelsia 



Section 4. Pseudotsiiga. Carriere, Traite Conif. 



ed. 2. 256. 1867. as genus. 



Leaves flat, narrowly linear, slender petioled, 

 spirally arranged, but somewhat two-ranked by 

 the twisting of the petioles; leaf scars concave, 

 transverselv elliptical, not ])romincnt, or raised 

 on more or less prominent woody sterigmata; 

 leaf grooved above, with a ])r(jminent midrib 

 below, stomatiferous on under side, furnished 

 witii two lateral resin ducts. Staminate flower 

 axillarv, oblong-cylindrical, with a short pedicel 

 which finally becomes considerably elongated; 

 stamens short-stalked, globose, their anther sacs 

 opening o1}liquely, surmounted by a short spur; 

 pollen grains without bladder-like appendages. 

 Pistillate flower in the axil of one of the upper 

 leaves of the growth of the previous season, 

 short stalked, with aristate, two-lobed bracts, 

 much exceeding the scales. Fruit a woody 

 pendulous cone; cone-scales not deciduous from 

 the axis; bracts much exserted, long acuminate 

 and with two prominent lateral lobes, the lower 

 bracts showing a gradual transition to the form 



