392 



THE BOOK OP EVERGREENS. 



distichous, flat, almost sessile, smooth, dark shining green 

 above, and somewhat glaucous below. Sterile aments, 

 short-peduncled, globular. Branches spreading and droop- 

 ing, long, slender ; with long, filiform, scattered branch- 



Fig. 63. CEPHALOTAXTJS FOBTUNn. BRANCH OXE-QUARTER SIZE, WITH 

 SINGLE LEAF OF LIFE SIZE. 



lets; and small buds with acute, persistent, imbricated 

 scales. Fruit, very large, from 1 to 1 inch long, and 

 about } of an inch in width, elliptical, with a solitary, 



