stems several feet high, simple; leaves numerous in a cluster, those of the previous seasons persisting and hanging for some time; rhachis very woolly, especially when young, subterete; leaflets numerous, crowded, the middle and upper ones overlapping, linear, very pungent-pointed, about 4 in. long and 3 1/2 lin. broad, glaucous and pilose above, soon glabrous, with 12–14 prominent and contiguous nerves below, margins very thick and callus-like, at first ciliate with woolly hairs; male cones shortly pedunculate, cylindric, slightly narrowed at each end, nearly 6 in. long and 2 in. in diam., with about 12 spirals of scales; scales narrowly rhomboid at the top and densely woolly-tomentose, about 3/4 in. across; female cones shortly pedunculate, cylindric, abruptly narrowed at each end, about 7 in. long and 3 in. in diam., with about 9 spirals of scales; scales very broadly rhomboid, about 1 in. deep and 2 in. broad, densely but shortly tomentose except towards the margin which swells and forms a thick glabrous callus; seeds broadly ellipsoid, about 1 in. long, probably yellow. null