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Herbaria Material Examined. 



Kew, 



Parlatore's specimen from Port Jackson. 



A.Cunningham's specimens — (i) from the Rhic ^Fountains; ;2" no locaHty, 



but marked " C. atteiiuata." 

 Fraser's specimen from Moreton Bay. 



British Museum, — 



Mr. Reward's specimen from New Holland, named C. pyramidalis. 

 A specimen in R. Brown's herbarium from New Holland. 



Berlin National Herbarium, — 



Sieber's specimen No. 137 from New Holland is labelled "Exocarpiis sfricfa, 

 R.Br.," an obvious slip of the pen. 



II. SYSTEMATIC. 



A handsome, shapely Conifer under 50 feet high, with a dense head of dark 

 green foliage. Bark — hard, black, compact. Branchlets appearing angular from 

 the decurrent leaves, making the angles rather — 

 acute ; the internodes lengthening to half an inch 

 towards the branches. Free ends of the leaves 



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appressed, and not quite so acute as in other 

 species, the decurrent portion slender and raised 

 from the base, giAnng the branchlets an acute 

 angular appearance. Leaves in whorls of three, 

 sometimes reaching live lines in length. "Male 

 amenta terminal, in twos or threes, ovoid, cylin- 

 drical, under two lines in length, about six whorls 

 of stamens ; anthers, generally three at the base 

 of the orbicular stamens. Female amentum 

 solitary, at the lower portion of base of the 

 branchlets, about two lines in diameter, sporo- 

 phylls glaucous on the inner side. 



Fruit cones solitary, or sometimes numer- 

 ous, on the second year's branchlets, subgiobose, 

 about nine lines in diameter before dehiscing, and 



over an inch when the valves are fully expanded. Valves six, alternately large 

 and small, smooth on the back, the larger ones are oblong and rather obtusely 

 pointed, the three smaller ones triangular, valvate. Columella, very short, three- 

 branched, flat. Seeds, oblong, two, rarelv three-\nnged, about two lines long. 



This is one of the most ornamental of the smaller Callitris, being a very 

 compact, shapely tree with oli\-e-green branchlets. 



Figure 180.— Seedling of C. MudUri, Nat. size. 



