XXll TABLE OF GENERA. 



Gen. NAGEIA, Gcertner. Leaves, opposite or alternate, and 

 many nerved. 



Flowers, monoecious, or dioecious. 



Fruit, axillary, drupaceous, and quite round, with 

 a fleshy receptacle, connected with the bracts by 

 the axis of the short spike. 



Seeds, covered with a hard thin bony shell. 



Tribe III. DACRYDI^, the Dacrydium Tribe. 

 Fruit, drupaceous and ei'ect. 



Gen. DACRYDIUM, Solonder. Leaves, needle-shaped or scale- 

 formed, opposite, and imbricated or spreading. 

 Flowers, male and female on separate plants. 

 Fruit, drupaceous and erect, with a short fleshy 

 disk-like exterior, and bony shell on the seed. 



Tribe IV. SAXE-GOTHE^, the Saxe-Goth^a Tribe. 

 Fruit, composed of several consolidated free scales formed into a 

 fleshy cone. 



Gen. SAXE-GOTH^EA, Lindley. Leaves, alternate, somewhat 

 two-rowed, flat, and leathery. 



Flowers, male and female separate, but on the 

 same plant. 



Fi'uit, composed of several consolidated free 

 scales formed into a fleshy cone. 



Seeds, a pale brown glossy oval nut, with a short, 

 thin jagged membrane enveloping the base of the 

 seed. 



