120 FRENELA. 



what blunt-pointed and free at the apex. Branches terete. 

 Branchlets loosely erect, somewhat forked, slender, and three- 

 sided. Cones solitary, globose, half an inch long, and rather 

 broader, and composed of six valves, the three larger ones 

 being oval-oblong and somewhat blunt-pointed, the three lesser 

 ones short, narrow, lanceolate, and acute, and all smooth, shin- 

 ing, and convex on the back. 



A bush, or small tree, found in the southern part of New 

 Holland, at Salt Lake, near Tungetta. 



No. 10. Frenela Gunnii, Endlicher, Gunn's Frenela. 



Syn. Callitris Gunnii, Hooker. 

 „ „ oblonga, Richard. 



„ „ • macrostachya, Hort. 



„ „ glauca, B. Brown. 



„ Frenela Australis, Brown and Mirhel. 

 „ „ macrostachya. Knight. 



„ „ variabilis, Garrilre. 



„ „ glauca, Mi/i'bel. 



„ Cupressus macrostachya, Hori. 



Leaves small, scale-formed, sharp-pointed, closely adpressed 

 at the base of each joint. Branches ascending. Branchlets 

 ascending, angulai', smooth, glaucous, and slightly jointed. 

 Cones somewhat conical, very rarely elliptic, solitary, or in 

 pairs; but sometimes in clusters, sessile, or placed on very 

 short foot-stalks, and both growing on the branches and prin- 

 cipal stems. Valves mostly in six, but sometimes seven and 

 eight in number, thick, rounded on the ends, and unequal 

 si^ed, the alternate ones being much shorter and smaller than 

 the others, convex, much rounded in the middle, and shining 

 brown externally. Seeds broadly winged, and rather angular. 



An evergreen shrub, from five to nine feet high, with a 

 pyramidal head, found in Van Diemen's Land, where the 

 colonists caU it " The Native Cypress." 



It is tender. 



