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I. Leaves spreading, entire in margin, with two continuous white stomatic bands 



on the ventral surface, and two lateral stomatic depressions confined to 

 near the base on the dorsal surface, 

 i . Athrotaxis selaginoides, Don. 



Leaves very spreading, \ in. long, with a rigid spine-like acuminate apex, 

 and an opaque margin. 



2. Athrotaxis laxifolia, W. J. Hooker. 



Leaves slightly spreading, \ in. long, obtuse or acute at the apex, and 

 with a translucent margin. 



II. Leaves closely appressed, scale-like and apparently in four ranks like Cupressus, 



but really spirally arranged ; margin translucent and denticulate ; ventral 

 surface concealed ; dorsal surface with indistinct stomatic lines. 



3. Athrotaxis cupressoides, Don. 



Leaves rhombic-ovate, obtuse at the apex, in. long. (A. H.) 



ATHROTAXIS SELAGINOIDES 



Athrotaxis selaginoides, Don, in Trans. Linn. Soc. xviii. 172, t. 14 (1839); W. J. Hooker, Icon. 

 Plant, t. 574 (1843); J. D. Hooker, in Lond. Journ. Bot. iv. 148 (1845), and Fl. Tasman. 

 i. 354 (i860); Masters, in Gard. Chron. ii. 724, figs. 140, 141 (1887), and iv. 544, 

 fig- 79 (1888); Kent, Veitch's Man. Conif. 262 (1900); Rodway, Tasmanian Flora, 277 

 ( I 93)j Baker and Smith, Pines of Australia, 303, plates on pp. 304, 305, figs. 217-228 

 (1910). 



Athrotaxis Gunneana, Carriere, Conif. 207 (1867). 



Athrotaxis Gunniana, Gordon, Pinetum, 47 (1875). 



Cunninghamia selaginoides, Zuccarini, in Siebold, Fl.Jap.u. 9, note (1844). 



A tree, attaining a larger size than the other two species, up to 100 feet in 

 height and 10 feet in girth. Bark described by Baker and Smith, as slightly 

 furrowed and fibrous, but not very rough. Branchlets stout, entirely covered 

 by the decurrent bases of the leaves. Leaves spirally arranged, loosely imbricated, 

 widely spreading but incurved at the apex, rigid, coriaceous, about in. long, 

 subulate, adnate but not jointed at the base, tapering to an acuminate spine-like 

 apex ; dorsal surface keeled with two lateral depressions near the base, which 

 are whitened by stomatic lines ; ventral surface concave, with two longitudinal 

 white stomatic bands from the apex to the base separated by a green midrib ; 

 margin entire, opaque. 



Cones ovoid or globose, about 1 in. in diameter, composed of 20 to 24 brown 

 woody scales, which are about in. long, with a narrow cuneate base, and an oval 

 or ovate expanded inflexed lamina, which terminates in a triangular thin process. 



The species, which is known in Tasmania as King William Pine, is said by 

 Rodway to occur in the western mountains, extending from Mount Field, Mount 

 Hartz, Adamson Peak, and Mount La Perouse to the west coast. Baker and 

 Smith state that it is common in the immediate neighbourhood of Williamsford, 



