PLANTES REMAKQliAULES DE LA NOD VELLfi-i: ALEDONIE. 21* 



caves et un peu cuculles au sommet; il est ovale-lanceole, coriace, 

 luisant, aigu, long de 8 millimetres. < 



Vappcndice qui surmonte les ecailles du cone est lanceole, subule, 

 rigide, aigu, long de 2 centimetres. 





S. ARiUCiait HtELLERI Ad. Br. et A. Oris. (Tab. 45 eM6.j 



Arbor magna ramis paten ti bus. 



Folia ovata, imbricata, coriacea, subplana, dorso plus minusve 

 carinata, nitida, punctulis albis longitudinaliter multiseriatis undique 

 conspersa, 3 cent, longa, 2 cent. lata. 



Amenta mascula eylindrica, 20-25 centiui. longa, 3-4 cent, lata, 

 basi bracteis imbricatis involucrata, inferioribus triangulari-lan- 

 ceolatis, paulo concavis, arcuatis, dorso carinalis, apice incrassato 

 obtusiusculo incurvis, 3 cent, longis, superioribus sensim angusiio- 

 ribus, basi diJaiaiis, versus apicem anguslato-subulatis. Stamina con- 

 nectivo ovato , coriaceo. crasso, lucido, medio carinato, apice 

 obtusiusculo, 7-8 mi I Mm. longo, 5 millim. lato, lobis polliniferis 

 circiter 20 ; lobi inaequilongi, fere omnes patentes, appeniliceque 

 subulata, incurva apiculali; alii (ilamenlo conligui concavi, vel apice 

 incurvo cucullati, vel etiam uncinato reflexi. 



Stro otitis ovoideus, Ik cent. longus, 9 cent. latus; squamae ob- 

 ovato-eunealae, 3 ~ cent, longs lataeque. parte superiore coriacea 

 externa convexa, in appemlicem rectam planam subiilatam acutam 



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flexibilem'pungentem 10-12 mill, longam sensim products, lateral iter 

 in alam scariosam fulvani fragilem, 1 cent, latam expansae, medio 

 intlatae ; squarnula triangularis acuta, apice lautum libera, margins 

 subtiliter fimbriata. 



Habitat in Nova-Caledonia versus apicem montiurn (Balans», n # 488); Pancher, in moot* 

 Cougui, 1871. 



