2GO 



GYMNOSPERMJE. 



resembling certain Ferns the Adiantums. It is a native of East 

 A. -in, and the only surviving species of a genus which in earlier 



FIG. 260. G in l:go (nat. size) : A a branch with a small flowering dwarf-branch (male 

 flower); B a leaf ; C a flower with two ovules ,- Da ripe seed; ar collar. 



times was very rich in species, and distributed over the entire 



Northern. Hemisphere. Ceplialotaxns (Eastern Asia) is related to it. 

 13. PODOCARPO:. The female flower is reduced to one ovule, 



placed in the axil of a bract, or a little forward upon it. The ovule 



has an aril (2 integuments). Phyllocladus 

 (Fig. 261), from New Zealand and Tasmania, 

 has obtained its name from its flat, leaf-likf 

 branches, the leaves proper being scale-like 

 (/). The ovules stand erect in the axil of 

 the scale-like leaves (c), and several are 

 collected at the end of short branches. 

 Microcachrys tetragona (Tasmania) has a 

 small female catkin with several spirally- 

 placed, fleshy bracts, at the end of which 

 the inward and downward turned ovule is 

 attached (Fig. 262 A, A'). The ripe cones 

 are red, succulent, and resemble Straw- 

 berries. In Dacrydium (Tasmania, New 

 - branch C '"'!tu Zealand > Malaysia) the female cone has most 



female flowers (nat. size). frequently only 1-2 (-6) bracts, which re- 



