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is a broad, glaucous, stomatic band. Male and female flowers on 

 the same tree, the anthers arranged in a spiral and opening 

 longitudinally. Female floivers solitary at the ends of branches on 



Fig. l.—SAXEGOTHEA CONSPICUA. 



a, shoot ; 6, spray ■nitli two braiichlets bearing j'oung male flowers ; c, under leaf-surface and 

 four young stalked male flowers ; d, section ol leaf ; e, fruiting cone ; /, cone-scale with pendulous 

 seed ; g, seed with small aril. 



short, scaly stalks, consisting of overlapping, triangular, glaucous, 

 carpellary scales, the upper ones each bearing two inverted ovules. 

 Ri'pe cones \-\ in. in diameter with fleshy grooved scales, con- 



