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two Indian forms, T. tenerrimus, Feistm., which has very small 

 horizontal leaflets, and T. planus which has also horizontal leaflets 

 but much longer and broader. 



Sequoiites. Carr. 



Named from the close connection with Sequoia, Endlicher, a 

 genus of splendid trees of gigantic height, separated from Taxodium 

 on account of the non-deciduous leaves, and the seeds being from 

 3 to 5 in each scale. Leaves subulate, flat or scale-like in two 

 rows. Flowers monoecious, male and female separate, but on the 

 same plant, solitary and terminal in the living (S. sempervirens 

 Endl., the Calif ornian Redwood), but axillary in the fossil species. 

 Anthers numerous, bilocular, connective peltoid. Female amentum 

 terminal, densely covered with imbricate scales. Cones small, 

 sub-globular, or obtusely oval and woody, the scales inserted 

 almost horizontally, wedge-shaped and truncate. Seeds (in the 

 fossil species) 5 to 7, affixed to the base of each scale, and winged 

 nearly all round. 



This genus is by most botanists made to include Wellingtonia, 

 from which it can only be distinguished by the seeds being always 

 as stated, and not four in number. The leaves are flat and yew- 

 like, while in Wellingtonia, they have always a triangular section, 

 and are closely imbricated. Sequoia sempervirens and gigantea, 

 Lindley, are the only living species. The first is spread over all 

 the mountains of the west side of North America and in the south 

 of California. The other species is limited to a few places in 

 California. Amongst the fossil species, S. langsdorffii cannot 

 be distinguished from the living S. sempervirens. It occurs in the 

 Miocene strata of Switzerland, Vienna, Berne, Italy, and Eastern 

 Europe. It also occurs amid plant remains of similar age in 

 Vancouver's Island, and on the edge of the Polar regions. S. 

 sternbergii (tertiary) approaches S. gigantea, while S. couttesice is 

 a medium between the two. The earliest recorded appearance of 

 the genus is in the Cretaceous period. 



To this species I am inclined to refer a species which appears to 

 be very common in the plant beds of Rosewood near Rockhampton 



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