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with divaricating falcate apices 1 em. long by 7 mm. broad. The leaves 
gradually become smaller and more modified in form as the plant matures, 
till, in young trees of + 19 m. in height, they are fleshy coriaceous in texture, 
1 em. long by 6-7 mm, broad, showing + 5 whitish lines of stomata in 
formalin material, connate almost to the extreme apex, which is apiculate or 
acute, with incurved tendency. The small scale-like leaves of the fruiting 
branches are 1 mm. long by about the same in breadth, with a few faint 
stomatal lines. The ¢ cone is 14 mm. by 3 mm., with peltate sporophylls 
bearing 4—6 sporangia (4 being the usual number) at the base; in one case 
3 sporangia to each scale were present throughout the strobilus, and in 
another 4—6 were seen ; the strobilus (first ovoid) elongates considerably on 
the dehiscence of the sporangia, the sporophylls drying light brown in 
colour. The ? strobilus consists of 4 simple bracts, opposite decussate in 
arrangement, subtended by 4 modified scale-leaves ; the 2 fertile interior 
bracts, each bearing 2 ovules at the base, are longer, and in the pollination 
stage unmodified, when they are + 4 mm. long by 3 mm. broad, showing no 
differentiation between the fertile and sterile bracts. As the strobilus 
increases in size, a swelling appears between the two fertile bracts. This 
swelling gradually develops into 2 ovate-elongate projections which displace 
the apices of the bracts, and it is these secondary projections which open 
to liberate the ovules, both reflexing on dehiscence, like the outside bracts, 
which are modified in the same manner but to a less extent. In both 
cases this hypertrophied secondary tissue is ciliate round the margin. The 
strobilus before dehiscence may be 14 cm. long by 9 mm. broad, and the 
ovule, of which the wing is still undeveloped, 5 mm. by 4 mm. All 
measurements are from formalin material. 
On the ridges this tree was small and not seen in fruit. Some beautiful 
specimens occurred in the sheltered forest by the lake, + 34 m. high, with 
very straight round boles and red scaly bark; the more or less conical 
crowns, spreading at the base, of graceful dark green foliage, rose above the 
level of the forest. All these fine trees showed dead branches at the tops, as 
if their development had been arrested or their maximum passed. The only 
trees seen in fruit were in a more or less open space on the western slopes of 
Koebré ; these were grouped together, + 16 m. high, with the g cones just 
shedding their pollen and the ? cones in all stages, both borne abundantly 
on separate branches as in Thuja. 
This species is distinct, like L. papwana F. Muell., in the spirally -arranged 
sporophylls of the ¢ strobilus and in the varying number of the sporangia. 
It differs in the shape and texture of the leaves, which are dark green on 
both surfaces, in the more numerous rows of sporophylls in the g, and in’ 
the bracts of the @ strobilus, 
