940 CXVI. CONIFERJE. [Actinostrobus. 
the cone enlarges, those of the 2 inner Srvlonbenring whorls become 
strictly valva either remain very obtuse or become shortly 
acuminate ; “i e attains in. diameter or s and each fertile 
valve has a broad st ri one aA HC qs to 2 or 3 lines diameter so 
closely appressed to its base as to appear adnate, and sometimes a 
second outer one enlarged to nearly half its size.—Endl. Conif. 40; 
Parlat. in DC. Prod. xvi. ii. 444; Callitris actinostrobus, F. Muell. 
Rep. abu Exp. 19. 
WV. Australia. King George's Sound, Baxter ; and thence to Swan river, Preiss, 
n. 1311, Drummond, 1st coll. and 3rd coll. n. 234, Oldfie ld ; Miu river, Oldfield. 
9. A. acuminatus, Parlat. Enum. Sem. Hort. Flor. 1862, 25, and in 
DC. Prod. xvi. ii. 445. A small pA densely branched "shrub, our 
minating in.a fine acute point. Penice of the size and "trot 
of those of A. pyramidalis, but contracted at the tp dub a distinct 
neck, each valve terminating in a short spreading point. 
b Australia. Between Moore and Murchison rivers, Drummond, 6th coll. 
n. 
3. DISELMA. Hook. f. 
rs dicecious, P. amenta terminal Male amenta ovoid or 
at the base of each of th er ones. uit-cones small, globular. 
Seeds 3-winged.—Erect atid with small p closely appressed 
ves, 
The genus is limited to a single species, endemic in Tasmania. 
. D. Archeri, Hook. f. Fl. Tusm. i. 358, t. 98. An erect densely 
tena vide af 5 to 15 ft. Leaves clo Tx imbricate but strictly 
€ 
tern Miis "v St. t. Clair, s : sn dent &c., 
as Gunn 
With the foliage of “Microcachrys this is more nearly allied to Frenela in Fe uctification. a 
mistake, owing to which the female plant was described as a rostrate, altho ugh — 
rodrom 
cleared up by Archer, has been omitted to be corrected in the P. 
4. MICROCACHRYS, Hook. f. 
Flowers dicecious, the amenta terminal. Male amenta ovoid, con 
sisting of several pairs of opposite stamens, the stipes very short, the 
eeled, about } line a E 
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