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ATHROTAXIS SELAGINOIDES. 



Fig. 78. Fruiting branchlet of Athrotaxis selaginoides. 

 (From the Gardeners Chronicle.) 



Athrotaxis selaginoides. 



A medium-sized tree attaining a height of 40 

 45 feet, the trunk covered with reddish brown bark 

 (in Great Britain) peeling off in longitudinal shreds. 

 Primary branches close-set, spreading, with tetrastichous 

 ramification often much interrupted. Branchlets 

 stoutish, similarly ramified. Leaves persistent four 

 five years, sub-spirally arranged, lax, incurved, 

 subulate or subulate-lanceolate, mucronate with two 

 glaucous stomatiferous bands on the ventral side, 

 convex-carinate and bright green on the dorsal side, 

 0'25 0*5 inch long. Stroliiles globose, about an inch 

 in diameter, composed of numerous spirally crowded, 

 Fi g . 79. broadly ovate scales, each with an acuminate point, 



Athrotaxis selaginoides. and bearing three six seeds. 



Athrotaxis selaginoides, Don in Trans. Linn. Soc. XVIII. 172, t. 14. Hooker 

 fil in Lond. Journ. Bot. IV. 148 ; and Fl. Tasman. I. 354. Endlicher, Synops. 

 Conif. 194. Carriere, Tvaite Conif. ed. II. 203. Parlatore, D. C. Prodr. XVI. 

 434. Gordon, Pinet. ed. II. 48. Masters in Gard. Chron. IV. ser. 3 (1888), 

 p. 545, witn tig. ; and Journ. R. Hort. Soc. XIV. 199. 



A. Gunniana, Gordon, Pinet. ed. II. 47. 



A. imbricata, Hort. 



Recorded localities. Falls of the Meander Rivulets, the Western 

 Mountains, Cummings Head. 



