PHYLLOCLADUS. 139 



bordering on the eastern parts of Bengal, and not far from the 

 district of Silhet, where it is called by the natives * Soploug.' 

 It is not hardy. 



PHEROSPHiERA HOOKERIANA. Archer, 

 (Genus, unknown.) 



A low evergreen shrub, found in Van Diemen's Land by 

 Dr. Archer, of which little is known, and of course not hardy 

 in England. 



Gen, PHYLLOCLADUS. Richard. The Celery-leaved 



Pines. 



Flowers, moncEcious, or male and female separate, but on the 

 same plant, and in close terminal clusters. 



Fruit, in small, connected heads, with a fleshy disk. 



Seeds, solitary, very small, half enclosed at the base by the 

 fleshy disk, and nut-like, with a thin shell. 



Leaves, minute, scale-like bodies, on the margins of the 

 branchlets ; branchlets, leaf-like, opposite, pinnated, or fan- 

 shaped, and feather-nerved. 



Seed-leaves, in twos. 



Name derived from ' phyllon,' a leaf, and * klados,' a branch ; 

 leaf-like branchlets. 



All trees, found in New Zealand, Borneo, and Tasmania. 



No. 1. PHYLLOCLADUS ALPiNA,^ooAer, the Alpine Phyllocladus. 



Leaf-formed branchlets, very small, on long footstalks, bluntly 

 lobed, obovate, and with the lobes irregularly toothed into divi- 

 sions ; the upper ones very small, more bluntly lobed, and much 

 thickened on the margins ; female flowers disposed in twos or 



