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Frenela.] CXVI. CONIFERJE. 239 
the internodes prominently triangular, with small teeth or scales. Male 
amenta very small, usually 3 together. Fruit-cones ovoid or : 
margins equally or unequally winged.—Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 352 
t. 97; Callitris oblonga, Rich. Conif. 49, t. 18, £. 25 €. Gunnii, Hook. f. 
in Hook. Lond. Journ. iv. 147; Frenela Gunnii, Endl. Syn. Conif. 
98; Parlat. in DC. Prod. xvi. ii. 450, also according to Parlatore, 
F. variabilis, Carr. and F. macrostachya, Gord 
Tasmania. Port Dalrymple, R. Brown; abundant on the gravelly banks of the 
South Esk river near Launceston, &c., J. D. Hooker. It is probably a Tasmanian 
specimen of this species that R. Brown had originally designated under the name of 
Callitris fruticosa, which does not occur in his herbarium. 
2. ACTINOSTROBUS, Miq. 
Flowers moneecious. Male amenta oblong, the stamens in whorls of 
3, imbricate in 6 vertical rows ; anther-cells 2 to 4. . Female amenta 
globular or. acuminate, the scales imbricate in whorls of 3, all closely 
globular or acuminate, the 6 inner much enlarged scales becoming 
almost valvate in a single whorl, with 6 or 12 of the outer barren 
. Fertile seeds usually only one to each scale, 3-winged, the 
codes ones also more or less enlarged but only 2-winged, the central 
fe on very short peduncles, or almost sessile, in the axils of the 
eaves, 
The genus is endemic in Western Australia. F. Mueller proposes to reunite it with 
Callitris and Frenela, but the habit, the numerous imbricate scales of the female 
Scale-like p of the stamens very obtuse. Fruit-cones globular 
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Scale like apex of the stamens acutely acuminate. Fruit-cones 
Pris an at the top into a neck with short spreading terminal 
"- x id : . . - B . o * E . . . B . . . 
1. A. pyramidalis. 
2. A. acuminatus. 
l. A. pyramidalis, ig. in Pl. Preiss. i. 644. A densely branched 
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oon glabrous shrub. Lower leaves sometimes 
and obtuse. Male amenta 1 to 2 lines long, the 
amens orbicular, very obtuse and not keeled. 
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Female amenta w et only 2 or 3 lines diameter consisting of | 
; hen as 
: 4 to 6 whorls of 3 scales each, all imbricate in alternate series, but as 
