166 P^'']f- Don's Descriptions of two new Geneva of the 



hemisphere. A species of Juniperus occurs at Cape Horn, and one species of 

 Thuja in Chile, and another at the Straits of JNlagellan ; wliile C'a/litris, a 

 genus containing- more than twenty species natives of New Holland and Van 

 Dieinen's Land, has a solitary species on Mount Atlas in 35° North latitude. 



CRYPTOMERIA. 



Ord. Nat. Conifer.e. Linn. Jass. 



Tlib. II. CUPRESSINE.9S. Rich. 



Character Essentialis. 



Amenta niascula spicata. Sqiiamœ antheriferw rotnndatœ, adpressè imbricatœ, 

 sessiles. Jntherarum thecœ 5, connatpe ! basi squamarum omnino adnatœ, 

 anticè foraniine amplo déhiscentes. Strohili solitarii, globosi, squarrosi : 

 sf/aaniis e pericarpio 3 — 6-dentato bracteâque lanceolatâ acuminata in- 

 ferne concretis compositis. Semina 4 v. 5, erecta, inœquilateri-oblonga, 

 margine angustè alata. 



Character General is. 



Flores nionoici. 



Masc. ^hnenta plurima, ovato-oblonga, obtusa, sessilia, bracteata, unguicu- 

 laria, in spicam terniinalein vix uncialem aggregata. Bractece subulatœ, 

 rigidtC, patulœ, amento parùm breviorcs. Sqaanuv antheriferce sessiles, 

 brevissima?, rotundatie, undique adpresso iml^ricatœ, ferruginecc, hinc 

 convexce, l;ievissima>, ni.'.rgine angustè meinbranaceœ ; extimse obsolete 

 carinatai, subapiculata;. Jntherarum thecœ 5, rariiis 4 v. 6, brevissimse, 

 uniloculares, turgidav, inter se connatœ, basi squamarum on)nino adnatœ, 

 anticè foramine amplo déhiscentes. Pollen è cellulis gloL'Osis leevibus 

 compositnm, pulverem sulphureum annulans. 



Fœm. .omenta in ratnuîorum apice terniinalia, .solitaria, sessilia, globosa, 

 multiflora : sqnamis è pericarpio 3 — (i-tlentato bracteâque lanceolatâ acu- 

 minata infernè concretis compositis, crassis, coriacois, rigidis, unguicu- 

 latis, regione placentiferâ dilatatâ, fungosâ, vix protuberant! : angae 2 

 lineas longo, verticalitèr compresso, hinc obtuse elevato-carinato, inde 

 rectiusculo, convexo, sulcato. Orala 4 v. 5, erecta, atropa, ovata, 

 compressa, verticalia, inviccm se subimbricata, margine angustè alata. 



