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PHEROSPH^RA. 



Gen. PHEROSPH^ERA. Archer. 



Flowers, dioecious, or male and female on separate plants ; 

 the male catkins are small, sub-globose, solitary and terminal ; 

 the female ones recurved, solitary, globular and terminal. 



Fruit, egg-shaped, erect, and somewhat fleshy. 



Scales, loosely imbricated, rather fleshy, and boat-shaped. 



Seeds, oval-oblong, solitary, and covered with a bony shell. 



Leaves, small, scale-formed, ovate-rhomboid, obtuse, convexly 

 keeled on the back, ciliated on the margins, and closely imbri- 

 cated in four rows. 



Name derived from " Phoreo," to bear, and " Sphaira," a 

 sphere. Catkins globular. 



A very branching prostrate shrub, found along the borders 

 of Lake St. Clair, and on the western mountains in Van 

 Diemen's Land. 



Pherospilera Hookeriana, Archer, Dr. Hooker's Tasmanian 



Cypress. 

 Syn. Microcachrys tetragona fcemina, J. Hooker. 



Leaves small, scale-formed, ovate-rhomboid, convexly keeled 

 on the back, ciliated on the margins and closely imbricated in 

 four rows. Branchlets numerous, slender, and entirely covered 

 with the small scale-formed leaves, regularly imbricated in four 

 rows. Flowers dioecious. Male catkins small, solitary, globose, 

 and terminal ; female ones recurved, solitary, globular and 

 terminal. Fruit egg-shaped, erect, and rather fleshy; scales 

 loosely imbricated, boat-shaped, and somewhat fleshy. Seeds 

 oval-oblong, solitary, and covered with a bony shell. 



A very branching, prostrate shrub, found along the borders 

 of Lake St. Clair, and on the western mountains of Van 

 Diemen's Land. 



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