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three together, each half enclosing in a fleshy covering a solitary- 

 seed of an oval shape, with a thin shell, and very small. 



A beautiful branching tree, growing forty or fifty feet high, 

 and from two to six feet in diameter, found on the humid 

 mountains of Tasmania. 



It is not hardy. 



No. 4. Phyllocladus tbichomanoides, Don, the Maidenhair- 

 like Phyllocladus. 



Leaflets numerous, and pinnated in two rows, obliquely 

 wedge-shaped, feathery-nerved, lobed, or pinnatifidly divided, 

 with the lobes terminating very abruptly, and toothed on the 

 edges, regularly flattened on the upper surface, furrowed, al- 

 ternate, and channelled at the base, deeply divided, with the 

 divisions somewhat two-rowed, without any footstalks and in- 

 dented or crenated, but frequently a little undulated, of a green 

 or reddish-green colour when young, but of a biilliant red or 

 brown colour when old and in winter. Branches frequently 

 in whorls of five, spreading and cylindrical ; branchlets, leaf- 

 like, slender, short, spreading, or deflected, and either in whorls 

 or somewhat in two rows. Male flowers terminal, in close 

 heads and cylindrical ; female ones in small clusters and ter- 

 minal. Fruit connected in small heads, two or three together. 

 Seeds very small, oval-pointed, nut-like, solitary, and half- 

 enclosed in a fleshy covering. Seed-leaves in twos. 



A graceful tree, with a straight, cylindrical stem and spread- 

 ing branches, growing sixty or seventy feet high, and three or 

 four feet in diameter, found in the forests of Tamesin, on the 

 northern island of New Zealand, where it is called by the 

 natives Tanekaka, and Toa-Toa. The timber is hard and 

 heavy, and the bark is used by the natives of New Zealand 

 for dying their mats of a red or black colour. There is the 

 following variety : 



Phyllocladus tihchomanoides glauca, Parlatore. 

 Syn. Phyllocladus glauca, Carriere. 

 Leaf-formed branchlets, slender, and tapering to the base ; of 

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