48 ARTHROTAXIS. 



No. 3. Arthrotaxis laxifolia, Hooker, the Open-leaved 



Jointed Yew. 

 Syn. Arthrotaxis Donniana, Parker. 

 Doniana, Maule. 



Leaves spirally disposed, loosely imbricated, somewhat 

 incurved, ovate or oblong-lanceolate, keeled or convex on the 

 back, concave on the face, adhering at the base, free and 

 spreading at the points, and acute; branchlets, long, terete, 

 slender, erect, forked, and of a bright green colour. Cones 

 globular, or somewhat egg-shaped, and nearly three-quarters ot 

 an inch long; scales spirally inserted at the base, imbricated, 

 leathery, ovate-acute, narrow, and stipitate at the base, seeds 

 mostly in fours under each scale, somewhat linear and 

 compressed. 



This kind forms a small branching tree from twenty-five to 

 thirty feet high, found near the cataracts on the Meander in 

 Van Diemen's Land. It is tolerably hardy. 



No. 4. Arthrotaxis selaginoides, Don, the Selago-like 



Jointed Yew. 

 Syn. Arthrotaxis Alpina, Van Houtte, 

 Cunninghamia selaginoides, Zuccarini. 



Leaves ranged in five spiral rows, closely placed along the 

 shoots, slightly imbricated, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, incurved, 

 leathery, rigid, blunt-pointed, keeled on the back, and seldom 

 more than four or five lines long, but frequently very much 

 shorter; level on the inside, convex or obsoletely keeled on the 

 back, and very smooth ; at first light green, but afterwards of 

 a much deeper colour, and quite glossy; rigid, dilated, and 

 firmly adhering at the base. Male and female flowers 

 sometimes on the same plant, sessile, solitary, and placed at 

 the ends of the branchlets. Cones globular, the size of a 

 walnut, with thick woody, non-peltate scales, on thick 

 foot-stalks, almost tetragone, and'thickest at the part covering 

 the seeds, oval on the top, acute, and laying close together. 





