520 MONOECiA MONANDRiA. Casuariua. 



ferance four feet above ground, but in their native soil, the 

 large trees are said to be nearly one hundred feet high, and 

 nine or ten feet in circumference. The wood is not held in 

 estimation, though of a reddish colour, and texture like Ce- 

 drela Toona. In the Botanic garden they blossom during 

 the months of February and March. 



Trunk straight up to the top of the trees, as in the Firs and 

 Pines. Bark smooth, brown, and considerably cracked. 

 Branches scattered, horizontal with apices ascending and the 

 extreme twigs often drooping. Leaves or rather extreme fi- 

 liform division of the branchlets verticelled, though frequent- 

 ly not more than one or two in the verticel, that is from the 

 same annular stipule, slightly furrowed, simple, or ramous, 

 jointed, with joints ending in a six to eight-cleft cup, in 

 which the next joint sits. Stipules, for so I will call the six 

 to eight-cleft, annular, woolly ring that surrounds the branch- 

 lets and embraces the insertion of the leaves, or small slen- 

 der branchlets and the peduncles. Male. Aments cylindric, 

 terminating the leaves. Scales from six to eight in a verti- 

 cel, and united at the base, they are pointed and woolly. 

 jFloicers as many as there are divisions in the verticel. Co- 

 rol, two opposite, boat-shaped, ciliate scales opposite to each 

 cleft of the verticel. Filaments single, twice as long as the 

 verticel. Anthers two-lobed. Female flowers, on a dif- 

 ferent tree ; at least trees now seventy feet high, that have 

 been annually in flower these ten years have not produced 

 any other, and issue solitarily with the leaves, from the six 

 or eight-cleft, annular stipules. Aments oval, short-pe- 

 duncled. Scales from six to eight, at the base united into 

 a verticel, with a single flower between each. Corol none. 

 Germs oblong ; style, the entire part very short, soon divid- 

 ing into two long, recurved, bright, garnet-coloured portions. 

 Stigmas s\m])\e. Strobiles oval, about the size and shape of 

 a nutmeg, armed with the sharp conic points of the two- 

 valved capsules. Seeds small, with a large, wedge-shaped, 

 membranaceous wing. 



