Bark roughened in old trees; buds small; branchlets densely pubescent with short, patent, rusty-brown hairs; leaves linear, 1-2 cm. long, about 2.5 mm. wide, slighdy broadened at tip, rounded or emarginate, lustrous above, with 2 broad whitish stoma tai bands beneath; cones narrowly ovoid, 4-9 cm. long, purplish when young, the scales about 2.5 cm. wide, the bracts not exserted. Mountains;