XIV TABLE OF GENERA 



Sec. IV. DOUBTFUL. 



Gen. Dammara, Rumphins (the Wax Pines). Leaves, broad, 

 flat, petiolated, opposite or alternate, and leathery. 



Flowers, male and female on separate plants. 



Cones, ovate or globular, axillary, and with per- 

 sistent scales, wanting the dorsal bractea. 



Seeds, unattached and solitary, or in twos. 

 Gen. SciADOPiTTS, Siebold. Leaves, linear, flat, persistent 

 and in whorls. 



Flotcers, male and female on the same plant, but 

 separate. 



Cones, elliptic or cylindrical, obtuse at the ends, 

 large and solitary, with wedge-shaped, persistent, 

 thin, leathery scales, regularly imbricated, and 

 furnished with a short dorsal bractea. 



Seeds, elliptic, compressed, and seven under each 

 scale, with a leathery covering, tapering into a 

 membranaceous wing, attenuating to the base. 



Tribe II. CUPEESSINE^, the Cypress Tribe. Cones, with 

 few valvate or peltate scales on a depressed axis. 



Gen. CuPBESSus, Tournefort. Leaves, scale-formed, regularly 

 and closely imbricated in four rows. 



Flowers, male and female on the same plant, but 

 separate. 



Cones, globular, and composed of angular, thick 

 woody scales, shield-shaped externally. 



Seeds, numerous, angularly compressed, free and 

 winged on the margins. 



Gen. Frenela, Mirhel. Leaves, mostly ternate, scale-formed 

 and decurrent. 



Floivers, male and female on the same plant, but 

 separate. 



Cones, globular, or conical, and formed of six val- 

 vated scales, the alternate ones being much the 

 smallest. 



Seeds, numerous under each scale, more or less 

 angular, and laterally winged. 



