266 THE BOOK OF EVERGREENS. 



2. D. macrophylla, Lindley. Grows 100 feet high, 

 and comes from one of the South Sea Islands. 



3* D, Moori, Lindley. Is about 40 feet in height; 

 from New Caledonia. 



4. D, obtusa, Lindley. Forms a large tree 200 feet 

 high, and was introduced from the Island of Aniteura, 

 one of the New Hebrides group. 



5. D. Orientalis, Lambert. Is a huge tree 100 feet 

 high, from Java and Borneo. " This species," according 

 to the Botanical Magazine, " is perhaps the rarest of all 

 ConiferaB cultivated in Europe." 



Var. glauca is recently introduced, and is represented 

 as having very glaucous leaves. 



Var. alba, KnigJit. Has whitish bark and longer 

 leaves. 



The three new and uncertain species are D. 

 Seemann; D, ovata, Moore ; D. longifolia, Lindley. 



11. ARTIIROT AXIS, Don. THE JOIKTED YEW. 



Small, dioecious, evergreen plants from Van Diemen's 

 Land. The flowers are all terminal and solitary, and the 

 small, globular cones composed of imbricated, entire scales, 

 and destitute of bracts. From 3 to 5 ovules under each 

 scale. The name is derived from the curious arrangement 

 of the jointed shoots. 



The genus comprises but three known species. 



