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bud, erect and exserted from the sheath of bracts when fully out. 
Anther with 2 large distinct cells, placed back to back, and opening in 
2 valves. Female fl: Perianth none. Ovary minute, 1-celled. Style 
very shortly entire, with 2 long filiform stigmatic branches. Ovules 2, 
an a nerve (the base of the style). Seeds solitary, erect, laterally 
attached by a funicle showing at its apex the second abortive ovule; 
flowers, &c., are superposed in twice as many series as there are 
. of each whorl. ale spi lets, 
. almost sessile along the permanent bran es, the female cones usually 
sessile or only shortly pedunculate, but in both sexes there are always 
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. and style-branches usually purple or red, the latter elegantly fringing 
_ the female flower-cones. 
The Australian speci appear t all endemic except olia, which ranges 
over nearly the whole area of the Order, and has become naturalized in m pic 
subtropical regions of the New and the Old World. Except the New Caledonian 
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