PHILIPPINE GYMNOSPERMS. 167 
PINACEAE. 
This family is represented, in the Philippines, by but two genera, 
which are readily distinguished as follows: 
Branchlets of but one sort; leaves broad and alternate or opposite 1. Agathxs 
Branchlets of two sorts; leaves cylindrical and clustered in a sheath 2. Pinus 
1. AGATHIS Salisb.' 
Flowers dioecious, rarely monoecious, axillary or the pistillate ter- 
minal. Staminate flower- clusters oval-laneeolate ; stamens numerous, 
with 5-15 rather long pollen-sacs, and broad, oval, terminal scales. Cones 
crowded, spherical-ovoid, finally deciduous; receptacle broadly scale-- 
shaped, leathery, imbricate. Seeds free, winged on one or both sides; 
cotyledons 2. Large evergreen resinous trees. Leaves on the main axis 
turned in all directions, on the twigs more or less in two planes and 
often opposed in. pairs, broad, smooth, drawn together at the base to 
form a petiole, leathery, with numerous fine longitudinal nerves. Buds 
scaly. Time of ripening of fruit 2 years. 
About 4-6 species in the East Indies, Malay Islands, the Philippines, 
Fiji, N"ew Zealand, and northeastern Australia. 
Agathis alba (Lam.) Foxworthy in Philip. Journ. Sci. 5 {1910) A, 173; 
Jeffrey in Ann. Bot. 20 (1906) 387 (nomen) ; Whitford, Philip. For. Bur. Bull. 
10 part 2 (1911) 25, pi. 1; Koorders- Schumacher, Syst. Verz. Herb. Koord. 3 
(1911) Pinaceae [1.] 
Dammara alha Rumphius in Herb. Amb. 2 (1741) 174, pi 57; Lamarck, 
EncyG.1. 2 (1786) 259; Blume, Kuniphia 3 (1847) 211; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. 2 
(1859) 1070; Pari, in DC. Prodr. 16' (1868) 374; Beecari, Malesia 1 (1879) 180. 
Pinus ahies Lour. FI. Cochiiich. ed. Willd. (1793) 579. 
Agathis loranthifoJia Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. Bot. 8 (1807) 311; Blanco 
Fl. Filip. ed. 2 (1845) 528, od. 3 (1879) 170; F.-Vili. Noyiss. App. (1883) 211; 
Vidal Sinopsis Atlas (1SS3) xlii, pi OS, /. A; Rev. PI. Vase. Filip. (188G) 
295; Than. Cum. Philip. (1885) 160; Ceron Cat. PI. ITorb. (1892) 188; Ahern 
Imp. Phil. Woods (1901) 7; Merr. in Philip. Bur. Govt. Lab. Publ. 27 (1905) 82. 
Ahies dammara Poir. Encyc. Suppl. 5 (1817) 35. 
Dammara orimtalis Lamb. Pinet. ed. 2 (1824) 70; Endl. Conif- (1847) 189; 
Carr. Conif. [iSo^) 425; Gord. Pinet. (185S) 79; Henk. et Hochst. Nadelholz. 
(1865) 210. ■ 
Agathis dammara Rich. Conimentntio bot. de Coniferis et Cycadeis (1826) 
83, t. 19; Eichler in E. & Pr. Pilanzenfam. 2^ (1889) 67, /. 25. 
Dammara rumphii Pre^l Epim. Bot. (1851) 236. 
Podocarpus phiUippeanus Benth. ex Pari, in DC. Prodr. 16^ (1868) 375. 
Agathis philippincnsis Warb. Monsunia 1 (1900) 185; Perk. Frag. Fl. Philip. 
(1904) 36; Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 1 (1900) Suppl. 24; Philip. Journ. Sci. 
2 (1907) Bot. 257. 
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»One of tlie nomina conservanda of the Vienna Congress. 
