Fagus.] CXIII. CUPULIFERJE. - 211 
Stamens about 8, the anthers oblong, longer than the filaments. 
. Female involucre sessile in the upper r axils, containing me 3 mp aet 
. Perianth-limb of 3 small teeth on the an les of the ovary. Sti 
 eapitate. Fruiting involucre about three lines long, the dota alo 
. or recurved tips of the catkin-scales narrow and terminating in a g an 
Nuts usually 2 with 3 wings and a central flat one with 2 w 
. Hook.. it Tasm. i. 946 ; ‘A. DC. Prod. xvi. ii. 122, 
E Viet per Yarra, Mounts Useful and Bawbaw, Cape Otway, Wilson's Pro- 
. montory, F. atu. 
asmania rH. jo own; common especially in mountainous and 
. western oe di stridii Henig a e proportion of the forest and ascending to 
. 4000 a shrub.—* Myrtl e treo" ot the colonists, J. D. Hooker. 
3. F. Moorei, F. Muell. Fragm. v. 109. A “beautiful tree 150 ft. 
- branches, ovate or ovate- janooolates acute or a few only of the lowest 
. obtuse, flat and coriaceous as F. MT ut with more 
| humerous and rather more Kin fui primary veins. Flowers unknown. 
of F. Cunninghamii, but larger, the uam e mostly about 
5 rae long. 
, N. S. Wal On high mauttain h depos forming dense forests at the head ud Bel- 
- linger river emt Bealsdown Creek, a fi t the head of Macleay river, C. Moore (in 
herb. F. Muell. all) ,—Received also ails Mr. p OM himself due the name of F. Car- 
- ronii, Moore 
Orper CXIV. ene : 
6 segments, valvate in the bud. Stamens as many as the 
‘Obes and opposite to them, inserted at their base or within the free 
e structure often 
cure or apparently homogeneous before fecundation; stigma ter- 
ntire or lobed, sessile on = we xi borne on a short style. 
ruit an indehiscent nut dru upe o a single erect seed. 
Albumen fleshy ; embryo pig “ally ver e ahai Xap] the top 
the albumen, with a superior Mis dons.—Herbs or 
Shrubs rarely trees, usually ibed ái aay aves alternate or 
ely opposite, entire, without stipules, often rodacbd to minute -— 
very deciduous. Flowers usua ly small sometimes BR ter- 
inal or lateral heads cymes or spikes, or rarely solita 
The Pasir mperate parts of the : with a few 
Of te Fane: irc ey eens one has a ge mend dition pu. over the 
