p. ijedinata is a native of rocky places in New Cale- 

 donia. The Eoyal Gardens, Kew, received the plant from 

 which the figure here given was taken from Mr. Moore, 

 Director of the Botanic Garden, Sydney, in 1891 ; it 

 flowered in a greenhouse in January, 1902. 



The descriptions of the female inflorescence and fruit 

 are taken from the Bulletin of the Botanical Society of 

 France, cited above. 



Bescr. — A tree fifty to sixty feet high ; trunk attaining 

 sixteen inches in diameter ; branches spreading ; branch- 

 lets rather stout, bifarious, flexuous, green. Leaves of 

 two forms ; (1) minute, scale-like, appressed to the branches 

 and branchlets, one-tenth to one-fourth of an inch long, 

 ovate, acuminate, green ; (2) sessile on to the ultimate 

 branchlets, bifarious, crowded, linear, half an inch long, 

 obtuse or acute, straight or sub-falcate, dark green 

 with a broad white stripe on each side of the midrib. 

 Male inflorescences spiciform, one to three on the tips of 

 the branchlets, an inch to an inch and a half long, one- 

 sixth of an inch in diameter, recurved, densely covered with 

 imbricating, triangular, ovate anthers, each about one- 

 tenth of an inch broad ; cells diverging at the base of the 

 broad, thin connective. Fern, inflorescence of two to three 

 terminal, incurved, bracteate peduncles three-fourths of an 

 inch long, each bearing a single ovule in the terminal 

 bract. Immature seed ovoid, with a fleshy coat, broad 

 basilar hilum, and two-lipped micropvle below the apex. — 

 J.D.E. 



Fig. 1, leaves ; 2, male inflorescence; 3, dorsal, and 4, front view o£ anther: 

 — all enlarged. 



