PLATE CCCXLVI. 
CASUARINA STRICTA. 
Upright Cafuarina. 
CLASS XXI. 
ORDER LI. 
MONOECIA MONANDRIA. Chives and Pointal feparate. One Chive. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
* Ma/fculi flores. 
Catyx. .Amentum filiforme, imbricatum, {qua- 
mis minutis, unifloris. 
Corotua. Squamule bipartite, ovate, minute. 
Stamina. Filamentum unicum, capillare, fqua- 
ma amenti longius. Anthera didyma. 
* Feminei flores in eadem arbore, 
Catyx. Amentum ovato-cylindricum; fqua- 
mis ovatis, acutis, carinatis, ciliatis, 
Corotca nulla. re 
Pistittum. Germen minutum. Stylus filifor- 
mis, longus, exfertus, bifidus. Stigmata duo. 
Pericarriom. Strobilus fquamis bivalvibus, 
perpendiculariter dehifcentibus. 
Semina folitaria, conica, margine membranacea. 
* Male flowers. 
Empatement. Catkin thread-thape, tiled with 
{mall one-flowered fcales. 
Biossom. Scales two-parted, ovate, minute. 
Cuives. Thread one, hair-like, longer than 
~ the fcale of the catkin. Tip double. 
* Female flowers on the fame plant. 
Empatement. Catkin ovate-cylindric, with 
egg-fhaped, acute, keeled, tiled {cales. 
Buossom none. 
PoinraL. Seed-bud minute. Shaft thread- 
fhaped, long, without, two-cleft. Summits 
two. 
SrEp-vesseL. Cone with two-valved fcales, 
fplitting perpendicularly. 
Sreps folitary, conical, with a ikinny edge. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Cafuarina dioica ramulellis ereftis; ftrobiloram 
fquamis inermibus; vaginis mafculis multi- 
fidis, glabris. 
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Cafuarina with chives and pointals diftiné&, and 
upright branchlets; fcales of the cones 
naked, male fheaths many-parted, fmooth. 
REFERENCE TO THE PLATE. 
1, The Catkin, or terminal part of a male branchlet, magnified flightly. 
2. The Shaft and Summit of a female floret. 
3. The Cone, whilft yet in flower. 
4. The fame magnified. 
_ at TR Od em 
Tue Cafuarina firiéta is a native of New South Wales, and was introduced, by Mefirs. Kennedy and 
Lee, in the year 1775. It is a hardy green-houfe plant, grows to the heigh 
before it flowers, which isin November. It is perfeétly dioicous; the mal 
_mever coming on the fame plant, and either have little to recommend them for beauty ; 
larity is what fhould fooner attraét our notice. The two figures, on the plate, which are 
and female, were taken from two plants, in flower, at the fame time, 
Lady de Clifford, Paddington. All the fpecies, hitherto difcovered, fince the fi 
genus was formed, the C. equifetifolia has, like this, the male and female parts © 
different plants; that only, being monoicous, or with the male and female parts on t 
t of ten or twelve feet 
e and female ploffoms, 
their fingu- 
the male 
in the colle@tion of the Dowager 
rft, upon which the 
f fructification 08 
he fame plant, 
