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I. HISTORICAL. 



When first described in 1850, it was regarded as ha\ing great affinity 

 \\dth the " Huon Pine," Dacrydinm Franklini, and is still included by some 

 botanists under that Genus, but the in\'estigations of this research show these 

 Genera to be quite distinct. 



II. SYSTEMATIC. 



It is a densely branched, erect shrub, with leaves closel\- imbricate, 

 decussate, thick, very obtuse, keeled, about half a line long and broad, of 4 or 5 

 rows. Male amentum erect, terminal, very small ; microsporophylls subsessile, 

 spirally arranged. Female amentum decurved, very small, with about 4 to 8 

 imbricate scales, thickened at the base into an obtuse external protuberance, 

 acuminate at the apex, but obtuse, with one solitary anatropous ovule, but 

 ultimately orthotropous. Seed small. 



III. LEAVES. 

 Not investigated. 



IV. TIMBER. 



Too small for any economic purpose. 



Pherosphaara Fitzgeraldi, 



F.v.M. in Hook. Icon. pi. xiv, 64, t. 1383 (1882). 



Habhat. 



In New South Wales this species is found at the base of most of the chief 

 falls on the Blue Mountains. The material upon which this investigation is based 

 Wcis obtained at Lower Falls at Leura, where it is a small dense shrub, and only 

 grows where it can catch the drips from the falls. 



