30 ARTHROTAXIS J OR 



Scales, oval, entire, destitute of bracteas, and imbricated. 



Seeds, from 3 to 5 under each scale. 



Leaves, without footstalks, scale-formed, and closely inlaying 

 along the shoots. 



Name, derived from * Arthron,' a joint, and * Taxis/ arrange- 

 ment ; shoots, regularly jointed. 



All small shrubs, natives of Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania). 



No. 1. Arthrotaxis cupressoides, Don, the Cypress-like 



Jointed Yew. 



Syn. Cunninghamia cupressoides, Zuccarini. 



Leaves, very small, closely inlaid along the branches, imbri- 

 cate, ovate, blunt-pointed, thick, smooth, and of a bright shining 

 green colour ; from 1 to 3 lines long, obscurely keeled on the 

 back, and concave on the other, entirely adhering at the base 

 and scariose. Male catkins, without footstalks, solitary, or in 

 loose heads, at the ends of the branchlets, with numerous close, 

 scale-formed leaves at their base. Cones, small, roundish, and 

 numerous. Scales, wedge or lance-shaped, woody, much thick- 

 ened at the part which covers the seeds, almost shield-shaped, 

 trigone and uneven on the surface. Footstalks, compressed and 

 four-sided. 



A small erect-stemmed Tree, growing 30 feet high, and much 

 branched, with very numerous branchlets, which are slender, 

 spreading, or pendant, and cylindrical. It is found at Lake 

 St. Claire, and along Pine River in Tasmania (Van Diemen's 

 Land). 



It is not hardy. 



No. 2. Arthrotaxis laxifolia. Hooker, the Lax-leaved 

 Jointed Yew. 



Leaves, loosely imbricated, incurved, oval-lanceolate, acute- 

 pointed, keeled or convex on the back, and concave on the face. 

 Branchlets, slender. 



Of this species little appears to be known, but from Sir Wm. 

 Hooker's figure and description in the London Journal of Botany, 



