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Taxodium mucronatum, Ten. 

 Botanic Gardens, Sydney. 



10. Sciadopitys, Sieb. and Zncc. 



A monotypic genus confined to one district of Japan. 



" Like the Ginkgo, ifc stands alone amidst the existing vegetation, so that 

 if the hypothesis of its great antiquity has any real foundation, a whole series 

 of forms which once connected it with other types must have been swept 

 away, leaving the Sciadopitys as the sole survivor of a phase of vegetation 

 long since extinct." (Veitch's Manual.) 



