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

 above, and somewhat glaucous below. Sterile aments, 

 short -pcduncled, globular. Branches spreading and droop- 

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



Fig. 63. CEPHALOTAXUS FORTUNIT. BRANCH ONE-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, 



