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maxima, sursum expansa, valvam sequante. Embryo in 
axi albuminis carnosi antitropus, ejusdem longitudine, 
cotyledonibus duabus, radicula cylindrica, supera. 
Arbores sempervirentes, interdum excelse, in America au- 
strali extratropica et in Nova Zeelandia indigenae. Rami 
tetragoni v. ancipiti compressi. Folia squamaeformia, de- 
cussatim opposita, adpresse imbricata, omnia aequalia v. 
marginalia navicularia, facilia plana, omnia eglandulosa. 
1. LipocEDpnvs powiawA Endl. 
Libocedrus ramulis compressis, foliis quadrifariam im- 
bricatis omnibus late ovatis breviter et obtuse acuminatis, 
marginalibus naviculari complicatis, facialibus planis dorso 
acute carinatis , strobili erecti ovati valvis lignosis, alternis 
quadrante minoribus sterilibus, omnibus dorso supra me- 
dium spina subulata patente valvam superante. 
Daerydium plumosum Don in Lambert Pin. ed. 2. Append. 143. 
A. Cunningh. in Annal. of nat. hist. I. 213. 
Thuja Doniana Hooker in London Journ. of Bot. I. 511. t. 18. 
Kawa-ka Yate New-Zealand p. 45. 
Kawa-ka ef Kawa-ha Nov. Zeeland. 
Habitat in Nova Zeelandia boreali, in sylvis ad sinum in- 
sularum et juxta fluvium. Hokianga. 
Arbor 30— 70 pedes alta, trunei diametro bi-tripedali, resini- 
flua, ligno duro, pulehre rubente. Rami teretes, denudati, cor- 
tice fusco, epidermide deeidua tecii, v. foliis sparsis, emar- 
eidis squamosi. Ramuli distichi, plano compressi, sesquilineam 
ad duas lineas lati, foliis quadrifariam imbricatis velati. Folia 
marginalia unam lineam, v. plus minus longa, naviculari com- 
plicata, faeialia plana, adpressa, triente breviora, dorso acute 
carinata. Folia marginalia qua ramuli partem superiorem spec- 
tant nitida, stomatibus destituta, qua inferiorem (a luce aversam) 
respiciunt, juxta earinam et limbum interiorem fasciis duabus 
latis astomis marginata, inter has fascias concava, stomatifera. 
Folia.facialia in ramuli parte superiore sita stomatibus destituta, 
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