282 FAGUS APICULATA. 
| | DESCRIPTION. | | 
Fagus apiculata, Colenso, Trans. N.Z. Inst., Vol. xvi. 
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A tree, oft. high. Branchlets pubescent; petioles and leaves - 
beneath. Leaves broadly oblong-lanceolate, iin. long, minutely « 
strongly apiculate. Male flowers as in F. fusca; solitary or in twos. 
solitary: fruiting cupule with three or, rarely, four lobes, each with fi 
to four transverse Jamelle. Nuts, two or three, one flat, the others trig 
winged at the margins. — sees 
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Fagus apiculata, Colenso. 1. Female flowering specimen. 
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