184 MICROCACHRYS, OR 



district of Magellan, where it becomes little more than a bush, 

 while on the mountains in the neighbourhood of Valdivia, and 

 on the Cordilleras, it becomes a large tree from 60 to 100 feet 

 high, and 18 or 20 feet in circumference, with a straight stem. 

 Timber, excellent, and very durable. 



It is the " Alerze " of the Chilians, and quite hardy in the 

 "West of England. 



Gen. MICROCACHRYS. J. Hooker. The Small- 

 coned Tasmanian Cypress. 



Floivers, dioecious, or male and female, on separate plants, 

 the male catkins oval-oblong or cylindrical, and in clusters on 

 the ends of the smaller branchlets ; the female ones oval-obtuse, 

 or globular, erect and terminal. 



Fruit, very small, nearly globular, terminal, nodding, some- 

 what fleshy, bright red, and composed of numerous small scales, 



Scales, spreading, loosely imbricated, oval-rhomboid, thick, 

 rather fleshy, bright red, and from 20 to 30 in number. 



Seeds, egg-shaped, solitary at the base of each scale, larger than 

 the scales, more or less exposed, and with a thin, bony shell. 



Leaves, ovate, scale-formed, very small, closely imbricated in 

 four rows, and of a deep, glossy green colour. 



Name, derived from "Mikros," small, and "cachrys," a fir 

 cone, the cones being remarkably small. 



A prostrate evergreen shrub, found common on the hills of 

 Port Cypress, and on the top of the western mountains in Van 

 Diemen's Land. 



MiCROCACHRYS teteagona, J. Hooker, the Strawberry- 

 fruited Tasmanian Cypress. 

 Syn. Arthrotaxis tetragona, J. Hooker. 

 Dacrydium tetragonum, Parlatore. 

 Franklinii, Lindley not Hooker. 



Leaves very small, ovate, scale-formed, and closely arranged 

 in four rows on the young branchlets; those on the more adult 



