22 On the Octodinis Macleayana, 



lengthy alternately shorter, all below the apex mucro- 

 nate. Central columna very short, pyramidal. Seeds 

 numerous, much smaller than the valves, erect, inserted to 

 the lower part and to the base of the valves, a few of the 



OCTOCLINIS MACLEAYANA. 



Explanation of the Plate. 



1. Male Amentum. 



2. Male Flower. 



3. Anther- Cells. 



4. Pollen-Grains. 



5. Fruit- Valves. 



6. Wingless Sterile Seeds. 



7. Winged Sterile Seeds. 



8. Fertile Seed. 



9. Transverse Section of Fertile Seed. 

 10. Embryo. 



All more or less Magnified. 



HJC UUOC1 VCU 



allied cupressinous genera in foliage next to some J uniperi ; 

 in disparity of valves and number of seeds to Frenela ; in 

 number of cotyledons to Actinostrobus and Callistris; but 

 differs, as already mentioned, from all in quaternary develop- 

 ment of flowers and leaves, and in an octamerous fruit. 



Sydney Botanical Gardens, 

 February, 1857. 



