The Anatomy of Saxegothsea conspicua, Lindl. 21 i 
occasional tendency to a two-ranked arrangement of the pits, and 
in these cases the pits tend to become alternate and hexagonal 
(Fig. 28). Resin-canals were not found in the wood. 
The medullary rays are never more than one cell wide as seen 
in transverse sections of the stem, while longitudinal sections, of 
young stems at any rate, shew that they are rarely more than 
three cells deep. Beust has remarked, and Gothan confirmed, 
the peculiar simple pits on the horizontal walls of the cells 
of the medullary ray, as well as the fact that the tangential 
walls of the ray-cells are unpitted. As these writers state, Saxe* 
gothaea shews an approach to Cupressinoxylon 1 as regards the 
medullary rays. 
The Leaf. 
The leaf appears to show no peculiarities of anatomical 
interest. Its structure was investigated by Bertrand 2 , who stated 
that it closely resembled that of Podocarpus, except for the smaller 
quantity of transfusion tissue near the single vascular bundle. 
This transfusion tissue increases in amount towards the tip, and 
has been figured by Bernard 3 . As in Conifers generally, the leaf* 
trace is single, being accompanied by a single resin-canal on the 
outside of the phloem. 
The Male Cone. 
The male cones, which are of a reddish-brown colour, and 
about seven or eight millimetres long, are borne on short stalks in 
the axils of foliage leaves so as to form a raceme; they have been 
figured by Bindley 4 , Masters 5 , and Thibout 6 , but the figures of the 
first named writer are very unsatisfactory, while those of Masters 
shew little detail. There is generally only one cone in the 
axil of the leaf, but as Thibout states, there may be two or three. 
In the material at my disposal branched cones were numerous, 
but shewed no peculiarity of structure beyond the dichotomous 
branching of the vascular system. 
The axis of the cone bears a number of spirally-arranged 
appendages, each of which consists of a pedicel containing a small 
vascular bundle and terminating in a short rather obtuse tip, while 
1 Barber, C. A. (1), p. 329. See also Lignier, O., “ V^getaux 
Fossiles de Normandie, IV., p. 266, 1907. 
2 Bertrand, C. E. (5), p. 69. 
3 Bernard, C. (4), p. 293. 
3 Lindley, J. (18), p. Ill ; (19), p. 229b. 
3 Masters, M. T. (21), p. 782. 
3 Thibout, E. (29), p. 179. 
