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leaves, but the cones are somewhat like those of C. robusta, except 

 in being smaller and more depressed. 



Reported from Middle Island, York Island Bay. 



This rare species was originally discovered and named by 

 Robert Brown, who in 1802 collected specimens in the above 

 localities, but was afterwards placed by Bentham as a synonym 

 of C. robusta. 



Callitris verrucosa, R. Brown. 

 Turpentine Pine. 



Fronola verrucosa, A. Cunningham. Camphor Wood ; Rock Pine, 



A shrub or small tree up to 30 ft. high. Bark thick, dark 

 brown. Branches short, erect ; branchlets compact, divided into 

 fine spray. Internodes very short. Leaves bright green, very 

 small, the free ends short-pointed and pressed close to the branch- 

 lets. Cones solitary or in clusters, globular, 1 in. in diameter ; 

 scales 6, thick, woody, covered externally with wart-like oil 

 tubercles, the larger ones twice the size of the smaller. Seeds 

 two-winged. 



C. verrucosa is found in the drier parts of New South Wales ; 

 also in W. Australia. 



Wood pale brown, close-grained, easy to work and useful for 

 constructive purposes, telegraph poles, and for railway sleepers. 



CALLITROPSIS, Compton.i 



A recently described genus closely allied to Callitris but 

 distinct in the Araucaria-like foliage and in the structure of 

 the cone. 



Callitropsis araucarioides, Compton. 



A tree of conical habit 30-35 ft. high, with an erect trunk 

 and greyish bark resinous in all its parts. Branches horizontal. 

 Branchlets cylindrical, fastigiate, forked, resembling those of an 

 Araucaria. Leaves regularly arranged in 8 vertical rows, stiff, 

 incurved, about \ in. long, J, in. wide, short-pointed, strongly 

 keeled on the back, margin minutely toothed. Male flowers 

 terminating the long branchlets, consisting of sessile pollen sacs 

 borne on the bracts, which are arranged in about eight rows, 

 like the leaves. Cones terminating short, lateral branches, con- 

 sisting of 8 scales in 2 whorls of 4 each, separating at maturity 

 and forming a cup -like involucre from which the ripe seeds are 

 scattered. Seeds angular, scarcely winged. Cotyledons, two. 



A native of New Caledonia, where it was found in 1914 in a 

 single locality on serpentine rocks at an altitude of about 800 ft. 



^Journ. Linn. Soc. XLV, 433, pi. 27 (1922). 



