pee CXVI. CONIFERUE. - 241 
c 
succulent. Seeds nearly erect, not winged, the outer integum 
e or less fleshy.— rostrate "reci ith small opposite closely 
appressed leaves. 
The genus is limited to a single species, endemic in Tasmania. 
- 1. M. tetragona, Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 358, t. 100... A prostrate 
densely d shrub. Leaves closely Labtfistal but strictly opposite 
and decussate, very obtuse, thick and keeled, and 4 line long on the 
branchlets, more acute and 3 line ong. on some of the older branches. 
Male amenta small and recurved. — Fruit-cones recurved or almost erect, 
nearly 3 lines long, the scales a im bricate, concave, thick suc- 
culent and scarlet when ripe. Seeds becoming almost erect, the outer 
integument wend at least at the base.— Bot. Mag. t. 5576; Arthrotazis ? 
__ tetragona, . Pl t. 560; Dacrydium “tetragonum, Parlat. 
E DC. Prod. xvi. ii. 496. 
Tasmania. Summits of the Western ners Gunn, Archer, F. Mueller. 
The foliage of — B agre is so entirely that of the Diselma which gr n the same 
mountains, that 3 at first taken for M female of the same tihi although the 
one is al ays abe and the other erect; the cones are, however, totall erent, 
integuments of the seed. In the —€— mim eue m T integument is shortly cup- 
^ ; 
5. ARTHROTAXIS, Don. 
Flowers moneecious on different branches, the penes terminal and 
small. Male amenta consisting of numerous ond X 
verse hilum two lonri- 
tudinal wings, the integument penike i Cotyledon ns i Dedss 
branched trees. Leaves small, in close spires, either very short obtuse 
. and appressed or lanceolate and looser. ruit-cones s sessile. 
The genus 5 limited to the three Tasmanian species, but is : ose. allied — 
1 Chinese Cunninghamia, that Zuccarini proposed the union of the 
; Leaves ids aiken very obtuse, 1 to 13 lines "e ka 
pns a prbioolar a at the apex be Laos lee i 1. A. cupressoides. 
aves looser, acute, 14 to 2 lines lon t-scales sho wee 
“acuminate. : apnd , 2. A. lazifolia. 
Leaves sd jincurved, acute, 3 to 4 ines lon | Fitacales 
pee t the apex i. 8. A. selaginoides.: 
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