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the largest and sterile, and the upper ones fertile. Seeds soli- 

 tary, pitcher-shaped, naked at the top, and girded at the base 

 by a cup. 



A ramose shrub, with the branchlets crowded close together, 

 found in the Province of Valdivia, and on the Cordillera 

 Pelada, in Chili. 



Gen. LIBOCEDEUS. Endlioher. The Incense Cedar. 



Flowers, monoecious, or male and female on the same plant, 

 but separate and terminal. Male catkins almost cylindrical ; 

 female ones solitary and globular. 



Cones, oval, more or less obtuse, woody, and composed of 

 from four to six scales, which are flat, or slightly concave on 

 the inner face. 



Scales, in opposite pairs, face to face, and not overlapping ; 

 the lower ones small and mostly abortive ; the whole of them 

 furnished" with a terminal, small, incurved point below the 

 apex, and leathery in texture. 



Seeds, singly, or in twos under each scale ; the upper or 

 larger scales having each two seeds at the base, while the two 

 lower or smaller ones are either abortive, or have but one seed 

 each. Seeds unequally two-winged. 



Seed-leaves, in twos. 



Leaves, scale-formed, compressed in opposite pairs, and in 

 four imbricated rows, the under and upper ones much the 

 smallest. 



Name, derived from " Libanos," incense, and " Cedrus," the 

 cedar. 



AU large evergreen trees, found in California, ChiU, and New 

 Zealand. 



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