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them slightly waved, reflexed, aod obsoletely toothed at the 

 edges ; midrib stout, rigid, prominent on both surfaces ; veins 

 divergent, parallel, forked once or twice near the costa. 

 Rachis doubly channelled at the upper extremity. 



Flowers unisexual, without either calyx or corolla, and col- 

 lected in stalked, terminal, resiniferous cones ; peduncle round, 

 furrowed, spirally twisted, tomentose. Male cone 3| inches 

 long and two inches thick, formed of numerous imbricated, 

 rigid scales which bear on their lower or inner side innu- 

 merable, irregularly grouped anthers or one-celled pollen-cells 

 which are longitudinally split. Scales broad, 3-angular, con- 

 nate and appressed at base, blunt, serrato-crenate at the 

 margin, smooth on the inner, densely clothed with thick 

 fulvous felt on the outer surface. 



Female cone oblong-ovate, broad, 3 inches long, 4 inches in 

 circumference. Scales like those of the male plant, but larger^ 

 concave wdthin, saccate, and perforated on each side of the base 

 by a small roundish aperture or sinus, which is destined for 

 the insertion of the ovules. Eipe fruit hitherto unknown.* 



* The description of the female cone was drawn from an immature spe- 

 cimen. •' I find it impossible," says Mr, Plant (who sent it from Natal) " to 

 preserve the female cones if suffered to reach a larger size on the plant. 

 The process of ripening goes on till tlie whole falls to pieces." 



