194 PHYLLOCLADUS, OR 



stalks on the last or utmost division of the leaf-formed branch- 

 lets ; in small heads, very rarely of more than two or three 

 flowers on the terminal branchlets. 



A straight tree from ten to thirty feet high, found at Kini- 

 Balu, in Borneo, at an elevation of 8000 feet, and on the 

 Mountain Pae, near Sarawak, at an elevation of 3000 feet. 



It is quite tender. 



No. 3. Phyllocladus rhomboidalis, Richard, the Celery- 

 topped or Adventure Bay Pine. 



Syn. Phyllocladus Billardierii, Mirbel. 

 asplenifolia, Hooker. 



Salisburia Billardierii. L. C. Richard. 

 Podocarpus asplenifolia, Labillardier. 

 Thalamia asplenifolia, Sprengel. 

 Taxus serratifolia, Noisette. 



Leaves at first minute, scale-like appendages on the apex 

 and margins of the leaf-like branchlets, which at length become 

 leaves, the leaves themselves appearing to be only compressed 

 branchlets of various shapes, some rhomboid, or oblong fan- 

 shaped, pinnatifid, more or less divided, lobed, and all wedge- 

 shaped at the base, closely adhering, decurrent, and with nu- 

 merous fan-like nerves, the same colour and texture on both 

 sides, and furnished in the centre with a large round rib, most 

 elevated towards the base of the leaf, where it is drawn into a 

 short, stout footstalk, linear-incised, or serrated round the edges, 

 sometimes entire or bluntly lobed, and pinnatifid, with opposite 

 lobes, somewhat pinnate on the lower part, with wing-like 

 appendages. Branches scattered, or somewhat in whorls, as- 

 cending or spreading, regularly rounded, mostly naked on the 

 lower part ; lateral ones and branchlets vertical or alternate ; 

 branchlets greenish on both faces when young, but of a pur- 

 plish brown when old and in winter; male flowers on the 

 summit of the leaf-like branches surrounded by the scale- 

 formed, imbricated leaves ; female ones in separate clusters, 

 small, obscure, and terminal. Fruit in connected heads, two or 



