THE CELERY-LEAVED PINES. 141 



No. 4. Phyllocladus rhomboidalis, Richard^ the Celery- 

 topped or Adventure Bay Pine. 

 Syn. Phyllocladus BiUardierii, Mirbel. 

 „ „ asplenifolia. Hooker. 



„ Salisburia Billardierii, L. C. Richard. 

 „ Podocarpus asplenifolia, Lahillardier. 

 „ Thalamia asplenifolia, Sprengel. 



Leaves, at first minute, scale-like appendages on the apex 

 and margins of the leaf-like branchlets, which at length become 

 leaves, the leaves themselves appearing to be only compressed 

 branchlets of various shapes, some rhomboid, or oblong fan- 

 shaped, pinnatifid, more or less divided, lobed, and all wedge- 

 shaped at the base, closely adhering, decurrent, and with nu- 

 merous fan-like nerves, the same colour and texture on both 

 sides, and furnished in the centre with a large round rib, most 

 elevated towards the base of the leaf, where it is drawn into a 

 short, stout footstalk, linear-incised, or serrated round the edges, 

 sometimes entire or bluntly lobed, and pinnatifed, with opposite 

 lobes, somewhat pinnate on the lower part, with wing-like 

 appendages. Branches, scattered, or somewhat in whorls, 

 ascending or spreading, regularly rounded, mostly naked on 

 the lower part ; lateral ones and branchlets vertical or alternate ; 

 branchlets greenish on both faces when young, but of a purplish 

 brown when old and in winter ; male flowers on the summit 

 of the leaf-like branches surrounded by the scale-formed, 

 imbricated leaves ; female ones in separate clusters, small, 

 obscure, and terminal. Fruit, in connected heads, two or three 

 together, each half enclosing in a fleshy covering a solitary 

 seed of an oval shape, with a thin shell, and very small. 



A beautiful branching tree, growing forty or fifty feet high, 

 and from two to six feet in diameter, found on the humid 

 mountains of Tasmania. 



It is not hardy. 



