Illustrations of Conifers. 57 



ATHHOTAXIS CUPRESSOIDES {Don). 



Trans. Linn. Soc. Vol. XVIII. p. 173 (1839) with fig. 

 Gardeners' Chronicle, Vol. XXIV. p. 273 (1885) with fig. 

 Veitch's Man. Conif. ed. 2, p. 261 (1900). 

 Baker and Smith, Pines of Australia, p. 313 (1910). 

 Trees of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. VI. p. 1452 (1912). 



A tree attaining in Tasmania a height of 25 to 50 feet with a girth 

 of 4 to 5 feet. Bark reddish-brown, peeling off in ribbon-like 

 shreds. Branchlets pseudo-opposite or alternate, densely clothed 

 with scale-like leaves, which appear to be in opposite decussate 

 pairs, but are really spirally arranged, closely appressed, obtuse, 

 thick and keeled, about i inch long, with a denticulate and trans- 

 lucent margin. 



Staminate flowers similar to those of A. selaginoides. Cones 

 terminal, about \ inch in diameter, smaller than in the other species, 

 spherical, composed of 10 to 12 scales, less than \ inch long, with a 

 triangular recurved process on the middle of the expanded lamina. 



Athrotaxis cupressoides is found wild in Tasmania on the 

 Western Mountains near Lake St. Clair. It was introduced into 

 cultivation about 1857 by Mr. W. Archer, but is rare in cultivation. 



The specimen illustrated was obtained from Tremough, Corn- 

 wall. 



