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Following are specimen reports of its occurrence in a few localities : — • 

 '" In New South "Wales it is fairly plentiful in the- Tweed district." " There 

 is abundance of Brown Pine on the north shore of Port Maequarie, say 25 

 to 30 feet high, and from 15 to 18 inches in diameter." On the Gloucester 

 Eiver I observed some fine trees of Podocarpus elata, which I was inforftied 

 is very common on this and other rivers and creeks in the district. 



Trees in the islands of the Clarence River, small, with clean barrels about 

 30-40 feet. (District Forester Wilshire.) 



Not plentiful ; occasional trees are found on Beech Mountain, and in some 

 of the coastal scrubs in Southern Queensland. (Gat. Forestry Mus., Queens- 

 land, 1904.) 



EXPLANATION OF PLATE 14. 



A. Branch with male (staminiferous) flowers. 



B. Amentum, partly magnified, showing the scales at the base, 

 c. Staminiferous flower shedding pollen. 



D. Pistilliferous (female) flower. 



E. Branch with ripe ffuits, showing drupaceous seed and the fleshy 



receptacle, 

 p. Seed. 



G. Vertical section of seed. 

 i-i. Horizontal section of seed. 



