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Gen. LIBOCEDRUS. Endlicher. The Incense Cedar. 



Flowers, monoecious, or male and female on the same plant, 

 but separate and terminal. INI ale catkins, almost cylindrical ; 

 female ones, solitary and globular. 



Cones, oval, more- or less obtuse, "woody, and composed of 

 from four to six scales, which are flat, or slightly concave on 

 the inner face. 



Scales, in opposite pairs, face to face, and not overlapping, the 

 lower ones small, and mostly abortive, the whole of them fur- 

 nished with a terminal, small, incurved spine below the apex, 

 and leathery in texture. 



Seeds, singly, or in twos under each scale ; the upper, or 

 larger scales having each two seeds at the base, while the two 

 lower, or smaller ones, are either abortive, or have but one seed 

 each : seeds, unequally two-winged. 



Seed-leaves, in twos. 



Leaves, scale-formed, compressed in opposite pairs, and in four 

 imbricated rows, the under and upper ones much the smallest. 

 . Name, derived from ' Libanos,' incense, ' Cedrus,' the cedar. 



All large evergreen trees, found in Chili and New Zealand. 



No. 1. LiBOCEDRUS Chilensis, Endlicher, the Chilian Arbor- 

 Vitas. 

 Syn. Thuja Chilensis, Eon. 

 „ „ Andina, Pceppeg. 

 „ Cupressus Chilensis, Gillies. 



Leaves, in pairs, opposite, compressed, blunt, glaucous at the 

 sides, bright green at the back and edges, the lower pair being 

 much larger than the upper ones, and keeled at the back. 

 Branches, compressed, obovate between the joints, bright green, 

 with glaucous furrows, and thickly covered with leaves, flat- 

 tened, and two-edged. Cones, drooping on short footstalks, 

 half an inch long, and consisting of four woody scales in opposite 

 pairs. Scales, face to face, and not overlapping, with a sharp 



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