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CONIFER.E. 



The specific characters of this species, as given by Sir 

 J. E. Smith, are, leaves rigid, in pairs, the young cones 

 stalked and recurved, crest of the anthers very small. 

 As additional characteristics, we may remark that the 

 leaves are from one inch 

 and a half to upwards of 

 two inches long, slightly 

 waved or twisted, the 

 upper surface concave, the 

 under convex, of a glau- 

 cous green-colour. The 

 sheath which incloses them 

 at the base is winged and 

 uneven on the edge. The 

 terminal buds, which are 

 found at the ends of each 

 year's shoots, and consist 



of a central and from four to six smaller side buds around 

 it, are oval and blunt-pointed, clothed with reddish chaffy 

 scales, which are more or 

 less varnished at the base 

 with a white resinous exu- 

 dation, and, in the winter 

 or during the dormant sea- 

 son, are from a quarter to 

 half an inch long. The male 

 flowers or catkins, when in 

 bloom, are from half an inch 

 to upwards of an inch long, 

 and are placed in whorls at 



the base of the young shoots of the current year ; the 

 flowers contain two or more stamens with large yellow 

 anthers, which discharge a sulphur-coloured pollen in great 



