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pistile). Fruit (or syncarp rp Rr a to some) the more or le 
branous (cie m Male catkins solitary or clustered, terminal or rarely 
axillary, female cones auy lateral on short peduncles or terminating 
ponet branc hlets.. 
hemisphere, bat withi the tropics chiefly confined to m The eleven 
Australian genera are all limited to the southern he d icon Jo ocarpus, which 
extends northwards to Japan and to the “West Indies, and that genus Pong: P ecieton 
are in Sou rica as well as in the Old ld. Three othe gon mara, 
me n World. ee other 
aerydium, and Phyllocladus reach from New Zealand to the Arc pela ago. Frene la 
extends only to Now! Caledonia, and the five remaining ones are endemic, mostly mono- 
ple or nearly 
In describing the female organs of this Order, I have made use of the terminology 
corresponding to Brown’s view of their homology, without however intending to dec yor 
den : á 
p 
biem which does not poy to adm fa parein solution. g 8 hi 
been adduced on S eek d side by ervers, none of them abso utely convincing, 
for whicheve er view be ad d there te remains a broa in Angie uM ti 
organs in Gymnos d h supposed ho molo “os in Angios ong, 
therefore ‘ rure cet fea edis s Heec oe dae "E ms best, in describing - 
generic modifications, to make use of the terminology w vhi ea is most conformable to 
actual ipm e, and to consider these organs as naked ovules and seeds, not as pistilg 
and n The genera are also here arranged solely with a view to the practical dis- 
tinction of the few represented in Australia, without reference to the tribes founded on 
the dri e wie v X the coverings of the seed, whether discoid, carpellary, o 
Integument r, besides that the Australian genera are insufficie any clear 
Ora (o or É ipea) à in the axils or on the inner surface of the 
es. 
Leaves pes reduced to scales) — or* opposite. 
with only the innerm n nnermost pairs or 
Vi of iie. bearing ovu 
Leaves or scales in whorls of 3 or 4, Ovules numerous 
within each scale . 1. FRENELA. 
Mo or scales in whorls of 3. Ovules 1 or 2 within each 
2. ACTINOSTROBUS. 
Leaves small thic and jmb idate o site and ‘decussate, 
E ( pM imr ) oppo T ; 
T s (mal "thick, ad ‘inate opposite and decussate. 
: with several series of scales bearing 1 ovule each , 4. Mrcrocacarys, 
