ENUMERATION OF CONIFERS 



Fig. 50. Tree to 100 feet tall; branchlets short and erect, often glaucous, with 

 terete or obscurely angled internodes: scale-like leaves small and acute, 

 ternate: staminate flowers solitary or in 3's, }/q~}4 inch long: cones solitary 

 or few together, subglobose, about 1 inch across, not furrowed; valves 6, 

 smooth on back or more or less verrucose. Australia. — Cultivated in Cali- 

 fornia and Florida. Trees about forty years .,^, 

 old are said to be growing at Santa Barbara. 

 In southern Florida it makes good specimens, 

 in five years becoming 10-12 feet high. The 

 tree somewhat resembles red-cedar, and is 

 reported as useful for tall hedges and wind- 

 breaks. This is one of the "pines" of Australia, 

 the wood being used in building and for the 

 making of furniture. 



Other species occasionally cultivated are: 



C. Drummondii, F. Muell. {Frenela Drum- 

 mondii. Pari.). Shrub or small tree; branchlets 

 angular: cones usually solitary, globose, not 

 furrowed, about 3^ inch across, smooth or 

 slightly rugose on back, with a minute mucro below 

 the apex. Australia. — Introduced by the Department 

 of Agriculture in 1920 and recommended as an orna- 

 mental evergreen of dwarf globose habit with bright 

 green branchlets. 



C. cupressifonnis, Vent. (C. rhomboidea, R. Br. 

 Frenela r}wmboidea,'End\.). Tree to 50 feet tall; branch- 

 lets slender, angular, often drooping: cones often 

 clustered, subglobose, about 3^ inch across, furrowed 

 at the junctions of the valves, the larger valves dilated into a broadly rhom- 

 bical apex, with a conical process at the center and usually rugose. Australia. 

 — Cultivated in Europe before 1890; introduced into this country by the 

 Department of Agriculture in 1912 and 1919. 



C. calcarata, R. Br. {Frenela Endlicheri, Pari.). Branclilets angular: 

 cones ovoid, furrowed at junction of the valves, about 3^ inch diameter, 

 the larger valves little or not dilated at apex. Australia. — Cultivated in 

 South Africa. 



C. oblonga, Rich. (C australis, R. Br. Frenela Gunnii, Endl.). Tree to 

 25 feet tall; branchlets angular: cones usually clustered, ovoid or oblong, 

 ^-1 inch long, furrowed at the junction of the valves, the larger valves not 

 dilated at apex, the smaller valves slightly overlapping the larger ones. 

 Tasmania. — Introduced to Great Britain before 1890. 



A related genus is Actinostrobus, Mifj. It differs chiefly in the numerous 



