foliage not being distichous, in the scales of the cone not 
being peltate, but arising from one point at the base of the 
cone, and in the winged seeds. ‘The habit too is very re- 
markable, owing to the great slenderness of the twisted stem, 
decurved branches, and pectinately disposed branchlets. 
Descr. A slender tree, forty feet high ; trunk straight, co- 
vered with ragged reddish-brown bark. Branches horizontal 
and decurved, slender, ultimate four to six inches long, at 
first ascending and nearly erect, giving the branches a pecti- 
nate appearance, pendulous and deciduous in autumn. Leaves 
inserted all round the branchlets, young one-sixth to one quar- 
ter of an inch long, subulate, trigonous; adult half to three- 
quarters of an inch long, nearly flat, narrow linear acicular, 
acuminate. Male inflorescence in pendulous spikes or nar- 
row racemes two to four inches long, from the tips of the 
branches. Male cones one-eighth of an inch long, as broad 
as the short peduncles, which are covered with closely im- 
bricating triangular scales, and ovoid-obtuse. Scales eighteen 
to twenty, like those on the peduncles, each bearing six to 
eight globose anther-cells at its base. Female cones minute, 
solitary or few at the bases of the male spikes, on very short 
scaly peduncles. Scales twelve to twenty, ovate with subulate 
lips, spreading, each with two collateral erect flagon-shaped 
ovules at its base. Ripe cone unknown.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1. Leaves. 2. Male peduncle and cone. 3. and 4. Male scales — 
and anther-cells. 5. Female cone. 6. Scale of ditto and ovules :—all 
magnified, 
