152 ON THE HUON PINE, &c. 
6. DacrypiuM, Sol. 
1. D. Franklinii, Hook. fil.; ramis cum foliis tetragonis ramo- - 
sissimis, folis parvis cruciatim oppositis ramo appressis 
rhombeo-ovatis subacutis dorso carinatis, amentis fcemineis 
terminalibus curvatis cernuis v. pendulis 5-7 floris, fruc- 
tibus laxe spicatis minimis, squama parva, squamula fructi- : 
fera concava antice fissa, semine parvo erecto elliptico- - 
compresso subdrupaceo (Tas. VI ) 
 Huon Pine" of the Colonists. 
Has. Tasmania, Huon River; Gunn, n. 1248 ; McQuarrie 
Harbour, Mr. A. Cunningham. 
This is certainly the most interesting and valuable tree of 
Tasmania; but it has been seen by few scientific persons. 
Mr. nt s specimens are very imperfect, consisting 
merely of the ends of branches, about four inches lon 
much divided in a fasciculated manner, the ultimate divi- 
sions, which are exceedingly numerous, are about one quarter 
of an inch long and a line in diameter, very brittle, and 
covered with the leaves. The latter are quadrifariously imbri- 
cated, less than halfa line in length, dark-green, and shining 
when dry, acutely keeled at the back, having a depression 
on each side of the keel. The spikes of fruit are inconspt 
cuous, at the apices of the branchlets, either drooping 9T 
curved downwards, about one line long, consisting of a cen- 
tral axis or stalk, which gives off 6-8 horizontal scales or 
bracts; the latter are ovate, plane or concave on the up} 
surface, and very convex or rounded beneath; upon each 
situated a shallow cup (the fruit-bearing scale) open toware 
the axis of the spike, formed in the old and dried specimen 
of two membranes, with an interposed hollow; the d 
this cup are obscurely crenated, and turned rather out 
and they surround the base of the seed. "The majority | 
the seeds of Mr. Cunningham’s specimens are in a very 
state; the most perfect are broadly ovato-oblong, or son 
what elliptical, compressed from back to front, the : 
rather acute or blunt, the apex notched, with a small tu 
