Illustrations of Conifers. 59 



ATHROTAXIS SELAGINOIDES (Don). "King William Pine." 



Trans. Linn. Soc, Vol. XVIII. p. 172. t. 14 (1839). 



Gardeners' Chronicle, Vol. IV. series 8, p. 544 (1888), with fig. 



Veitch's Man. Conif. ed. 2, p. 262 (1900). 



Baker and Smith, Pines of Australia, p. 303 (1910). 



Trees of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. VI. p. 1450 (1912). 



A tree attaining in Tasmania a maximum height of 100 feet and 

 a girth of 9 feet, generally unbranched for about three-quarters of its 

 height and with a dense irregular crown of branches. Bark reddish- 

 brown and fibrous, exfoliating in longitudinal shreds. Leaves spirally 

 arranged, about inch long, loosely imbricated, incurved, thick, rigid, 

 subulate, inner surface with two glaucous stomatic bands from base 

 to apex ; outer surface convex, keeled, with two stomatic depres- 

 sions near the base ; margin entire, opaque. 



Flowers monoecious, terminal. Staminate flowers small, solitary, 

 with crowded imbricated stamens. Cones terminal, nearly globose, 

 composed of 20 to 24 scales, with a narrow cuneate base, and 

 an oval or ovate expanded inflexed lamina which terminates in a 

 triangular thin process. 



Athrotaxis sdaginoides occurs wild in the Western Mountains, 

 Tasmania, at an altitude of 1,000 to 2,000 feet. It was introduced 

 about the year 1857 by Mr. W. Archer of Cheshunt, but is rare 

 in cultivation. 



The specimen illustrated was obtained from Glasnevin. 



