172 A HANDBOOK OF CONIFERS 



It is suitable for building purposes, railway sleepers, posts and 

 rails, furniture, etc. The cones are rich in oil. 



Callitris Roei, Endlicher. 



Frenela subcordata, Parlatore. 



A shrub or small tree with stout, erect branches and angular 

 branchlets. The attached parts of the leaves ridged, the points 

 blunt and pressed close to the shoot. Cones globular, |-| in. in 

 diameter, on short, stout stalks ; scales 6, very thick, the smaller 

 ones triangular and pointed, the larger ones blunt, smooth, 

 prominently angled when closed. 



A rare tree, apparently limited to a few localities in Western 

 Australia. 



Callitris sulcata, Schlechter. 



Frenela sulcata, Parlatore ; F. balansao, Brongniart and Gris. 



A symmetrical tree 40 ft. high, with an erect, smooth trunk and 

 a conical outline. The young shoots bear free leaves in whorls of 

 3-4, the leaves being narrow, clasping the stems, and about \ in. 

 long and .}c> in. wide, gradually diminishing in length on older 

 branches and passing into the mature, almost completely adnate 

 type of leaf. 



Wood camphor-scented, very hard and durable. Abundant 

 in the Comboui Valley, New Caledonia, and locally known as 

 " Sapin de Comboui." It is a lowland tree found up to 1,000 

 ft. altitude. 



Var. alpina, Compton.^ 

 An alpine form of the above found up to 3,000 ft. altitude. 



Callitris tasmanica, Baker and Smith. 

 Oyster Bay Pine. 



Frenela rhomboidea, var. tasmanica, Bentham. 



A bush or small tree up to 40 ft. high, with horizontal or droop- 

 ing branches divided into fine spray. Leaves larger and coarser 

 than in C. rhomboidea, to which it is closely alUed. Cones solitary 

 or clustered, -|-f in. wide, similar to those of C. rhomboidea. 



Recorded from Victoria, New South Wales, and Tasmania. 



Callitris tuberculata, R. Brown. 



Little is known of this species. Baker and Smith ^ say that 

 the decurrent leaves are glaucous like those of C. glauca, which it 

 also resembles in the terete branchlets formed by the decurrent 



^ " Syst. Ace. Plants of New Caledonia " : Jotirn. Linn. Soc. XLV, No. 304, 

 p. 432 (1922). 

 2 Loc. cit. 99. 



