Gunniane. N. O. Conifere. 
TAB. DLXXIII. 
ARTHROTAXIS LAXIFOLIA. Hook. 
Ramis (cum foliis) subteretibus, foliis subquadrifariis laxis 
erecto-incurvatis ovato-lanceolatis acutis dorso convexis 
carinatis intus concavis. 
Has. Tasmania, Ronald Gunn, Esq. 1833 (n. 369.) 
Of both the kinds of fructification of this plant, I am igno- 
rant: indeed, I possess only the solitary specimen here repre- 
sented, and which appears to hold an intermediate rank between 
the A. cupressoides, Don, (Tas. NosTR. DLIx.) and the folk 
lowing species, A. selaginoides. To the former Mr. Don refers — 
it; that is, if the specimen, n. 369, which he examined in Dr. 
Lindley’s Herbarium, from Mr. Gunn, be the same as mine, 
which I have reason to suppose it is: but to me they appe? 
quite different species. It behoves a botanist, however, to speak 
with caution when treating of a family of plants whose leaves are 
peculiarly liable to variation in the different stages of theit 
growth, 
Fig. 1. Portion of a branch, with leaves. f. 2. Inner face of 
aleaf. f. 3. Outer face of a leaf :—magnified. : 
