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side of the 3 winged seeds (fig. 684, K). Branch-scars occur on the sterns^. 

 Taiwania. This genus^ has the habit of Cryptomeria and cones recalling 

 those of Cunninghamia and Tsuga : each scale bears 2 seeds. Fokienia. The 

 single species^ is, in certain respects, intermediate between Cupressus and 

 Libocedrus; the cones are globose hke those of Chamaecyparis and each 

 scale bears two unequally winged seeds; the foMage is nearly identical with 

 that of Libocedrus, 



Fig. 701. Athrotaxis cupressoides. 



Athrotaxis. (Figs. 684, N, O; 701.) Leaves short, loosely spreading 

 and shghtly imbricate (A. selaginoides*), similar to those of Amucaria exceUa, 



' Lotsy (11) p. 51. a Gard. Chron. Feb. 4, 1911. 



^ A second species has recently been described by Hayata (17) 

 ^ Baker and Smith (10) p. 305 (and photograph). 



