164 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [SEPTEMBER 
was received, and from the fact that I have received other material 
from the same source belonging to this species.’ 
In cross-section a staminate cone shows about ten to twelve sporo- 
phylls, each with two sporangial cavities (fig. 1). The vascular 
system seems to be rather weakly developed, but shows a distinct 
endarch collateral bundle (fig. 3) corresponding to each sporophyll. 
Just outside of the bundle there usually is found a resin canal (fig. 1). 
Canterbury 
Fic. B.—Buttressed base of P. dacrydioides, in ancient forest of 
Plain, N. Z.—Photograph by L. CocKAYNE. 
The resin canals contain little material of any sort in the prepa 
available for study. The distinctly glandular cells lining them 
(fig. 2) suggest, however, that they are functional. The number 
varies in different strobili, but in those examined did not fall below 
six nor exceed eighteen or twenty. 
The sporophylls as seen from the upper surface are 
spatulate, with a rather pointed apex. Fig. 4 presents gn out 
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Ve have received from Dr. CocKAYNE two excellent poe : 
dioides, which are reproduced on account of their general interest (figs 
