192 PHEKOSPH^RA. 



Gen. PHEROSPHiERA. Archer. 



Flowers, dioecious, or male and female on separate plants ; 

 the male catkins are small, sub-globose, solitary and terminal ; 

 the female ones recurved, solitary, globular and terminal. 



Fruit, egg-shaped, erect, and somewhat fleshy. 



Scales, loosely imbricated, rather fleshy, and boat-shaped. 



Seeds, oval-oblong, solitary, and covered with a bony shell. 



Leaves, small, scale-formed, ovate-rhomboid, obtuse, convexly 

 keeled on the back, ciliated on the margins, and closely imbri- 

 cated in four rows. 



Name derived from " Phoreo," to bear, and " Sphaira," a 

 sphere. Catkins globular. 



A very branching prostrate shrub, found along the borders 

 of Lake St. Clair, and on the western mountains in Van 

 Diemen's Land. 



Pheeosph^ka Hookeriana, Archer, Dr. Hooker's Tasmanian 



Cypress. 

 Syn. Microcachrys tetragona fcemina, J. Hooker. 



Leaves small, scale-formed, ovate-rhomboid, convexly keeled 

 on the back, ciliated on the margins and closely imbricated in 

 four rows. Branchlets numerous, slender, and entirely covered 

 with the small scale-formed leaves, regularly imbricated in four 

 rows. Flowers dioecious. Male catkins small, solitary, globose, 

 and terminal; female ones recurved, solitary, globular and 

 terminal. Fruit egg-shaped, erect, and rather fleshy; scales 

 loosely imbricated, boat-shaped, and somewhat fleshy. Seeds 

 oval-oblong, solitary, and covered with a bony shell. 



A very branching, prostrate shrub, found along the borders 

 of Lake St. Clair, and on the western mountains of Van 

 Diemen's Land. 



