JOINTED YEWS. 31 



vol. iv. p. 149; and judging from which it appears very near 

 Arthrotaxis cupressoides, the principal difference appearing to 

 be, in its loose, more distantly imbricated, and especially in the 

 more pointed leaves. 



A small tree, found near the Cataracts on the Meander, in 

 Van Diemen's Land. 



It is not hardy. 



No. 3. Arthrotaxis selaginoides, Don, the Selago-like 

 Jointed Yew. 

 Syn. Arthrotaxis Alpina, Van Houtte. 

 „ Cunninghamia selaginoides, Zuccarini. 



Leaves, ranged in 5 spiral rows, closely placed along the 

 shoots, slightly imbricated, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, incurved, 

 leathery, rigid, blunt-pointed, keeled on the back, and seldom 

 more than 4 or 5 lines long, but frequently very much shorter ; 

 level on the inside, convex or obsoletely keeled on the back, 

 and very smooth ; at first light green, but afterwards of a much 

 deeper colour, and quite glossy ; rigid, dilated and firmly 

 adhering at the base. Male and female flowers sometimes on 

 the same plant, sessile, solitary, and placed at the ends of the 

 branchlets. Cones, globular, the size of a walnut, with thick 

 woody, non-peltate scales, on thick footstalks, almost tetragone, 

 and thickest at the part covering the seeds, oval on the top, 

 acute, and laying close together. Seeds, in threes, but more 

 frequently in twos ; (one being abortive), under each scale, with 

 hardly any wing, the wing being constituted in a great part 

 by the epidermis of the seed ; shell thin and crusty. 



A bush with spreading ever-green branches and branchlets, 

 tridently divided, or sometimes only forked at irregular 

 distances ; the adult stems and branches are covered with leaves 

 united along the whole surface of the stem, and persistent, 

 lateral ones short and completely covered with leaves di'awn 

 close together, and appearing as if jointed. Tt is found growing 

 at the cataracts on the Meander in Tasmania (Van Diemen's 

 Land). 



It is not hardy. 



