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10. Callitris rhomboidca, 



R.Br, in Rich. Conif. 47 t. IS (1826). 

 "CYPRESS PINE." 



(Syn. : — C. ?citpressifor>nis, Vent. Nov., Gen. Dec, lo; C. arenosa, Sweet, Hort. 

 Brit., 473; Frenela rhomboidca , End., syn. Conif., 36; F. Ventenatii, Mirb. in 

 Mem. Mus. Par., XIII, 74; F. arenosa, A. Cunn., Endl., syn. Conif., 38, 

 Parlat. in DC. Prod., XVI, ii, 451; F. triquetra, Spach. Suit. Baff., XI, 345, 

 Endl., syn. Conif., 36; F. attenuata, A. Cunn., Hort.; Ciipressus australis, 

 Desf. Cat. Hort., Par. ed., 3, 355 not of Persoon ; Tlitiia aiistraiis, Poir. Diet. 

 Suppl., Y, 302; T. articidata, Tenore.) 



Habitat. 



This species, as understood in this research, has not an extensive range 

 in the Eastern Coast District of the Continent, and occurs only in certain 

 parts of Queensland, and New South Wales in the neighbourhood of Sydney, as 

 for instance, ^Middle Harbour, Mosman, St. Albans, Woniora River (Como). 



I. HISTORICAL. 



The inordinate list of synonyms associated witli this species is probably 

 due to its being one of, if not the first described Callitris, and its seed being 

 widely distributed, for plants were early cultivated in European nurseries. 



As there is no evidence to sliow that this was the particular species upon 

 which Ventenat founded his genus, we thought it better to employ Robert Brown's 

 designation for this pine, and thus remove all doubt, for his specimens seen by 

 us are unmistakably identical with those of the other authors I.e., and as under- 

 stood by Benthani in his " l-'lora Australiensis." Ventenat, when founding the 

 genus Callitris upon an .\ustralian pine, mentions no species ; so that there is no 

 justification for crediting him as the author of C. cnpressiformis. 



Material purporting to be tins species is more widely distributed in the 

 world's herbaria than that of any other Callitris, and some so named are difficult 

 of identification or rather determinalion, as in many instances tliry arc f)ft('n 

 incomplete, and there is thus great confusion in its nomenclature .\t the Paris 

 Herbarium all the specimens of M. Verreau.x liom New Holland, i>^-\^\ named 

 ('. australis, are C. rhomboidea witli innnalnn lr\nts. 



