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them slightly waved, reflexed, and 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 3J 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 within, 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. Ripe 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 the whole falls to pieces.” 
