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FOREIGN NOTICES. 



Fig. a. branch of SAXE'GoinMx conspicca. 



Podocarp -with the flower? in a cone — a view which he was probably led to take by the condition 

 of the ovule, and which may be regarded as the naost philosophical mode of understanding tlic 

 nature of this singular genus ; to which Nageia may be said to be a slight approach, and which ^ 

 is not distinguishable by habit from a Podocarp. ^ 



In its systematic relations Saxe-Gothsea possesses great interest, forming as it does a direct 



