234 CXVI. CONIFERX. 
Leaves (rarely reduced to scales) spiral or scattered. ne- 
scales flat, hardened at the en ips Meum Sa the 
ut t appressed, oft 
Male | aüiénta sm all. a tt ns with a p stipes and 2 
anther-cells. Cones small. Ovulesfew. Seeds ins 5. ARTHROTAXIS. 
Male vest te aii en datas ges more than 
s 1 to each s 
Seeds. obovate. ‘oblong, p A to the. WA at the base, not 
winge 6. ARAUCARIA. 
Seeds oblong, 1 free from the ‘scale, ‘winged or on one side . 7. DAMMARA. 
Leaves (sometimes reduced t scales) piral or scattered 
Cones small, scale thickened and concave, with 1 ovule 
each. Seeds mail, the outer integument membranous, 
contracted in ^y a nec 
Leaves See small, thick, eat, imbricate. 
Seeds seated in a m mbranouscup . . . . . 8. Dacryprum. 
jaen n out pa terna, rem brenous cup . 9. PHEROSPHARA. 
Leaves reduced to pail almost verticillate 
ales, with liy leafl like “hombeidal flat branchlets 
llodia . 10. PHYrLOCLADUS. 
or poy 
Ovules 1 or 2, exserted from an oblong fleshy ‘receptacle. Leaves 
os un or ital er sich or flat, with a Pe 
nent midrib 11. PopocARPUS. 
l. FRENELA, Mirb. (partly). 
(Callitris, Vent. (partly); Leichhardtia, Steph. ; Octoclinis, F. Muell.) 
Flowers monccious. Male amenta cylindrical oblong or ovoid, he 
stamens in whorls of 3 or rarely 4, imbricate in twice as many verti 
rows, the scale-like apex ovate orbieular or slightly peltate ; ada 
cells 2 to 4. Female amenta of 6 rarely 8 scales, more or less dis- 
tinctly arranged at the time of flowering in 2 whorls sinant aay 
enlarged outer empty scales. Ovules iet carpels) several within eac 
aee in 8 vertical series, donee and erect. Fruiting-cone glo obular 
r pyramidal, the 6 ra ely 8 sales enlarged and hardened, 
i shortly v PFA at the base, appear ly. anged in a single whorl, and 
a Wes integument, the tuli dived into 2 unequal F 
only 1 wing developed, or very rarely a third rink also pro- 
minent on one face, the abortive seeds mostly enlarged and very flat 
w $ me species there is a more or les 
min entral columella usually 3-angular or 3-lobed, and sometimes 
apparently formed of abortive ovules. Cotyledons 2, rarel 3.— Tree 
shrubs, with slender terete or 8- or rarely 4-an branch 
acicular though short, but generally redu sea to minute we scales, the 1 
decurrent midribs forming the an ngles of internodes as ddr ; 
ale amenta usually small, solitary or clustered at the po a 1 
branches, and rarely a few lateral ones. Female cones on short 
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