PHYLLOCLADUS. 193 



Qen, PHYLLOCLADUS. Richard. The Celery- 

 leaved Pines. 



Flowers, monoecious, or male and female separate, but on the 

 same plant, and in close terminal clusters. 



Fruit, in small, connected heads, with a fleshy disk. 



Seeds, solitary, very small, half-enclosed at the base by the 

 fleshy disk, and nut-like, with a thin sheU. 



Leaves, minute, scale-like bt)dies, on the margins of the 

 branchlets; branchlets, leaf-like, opposite, pinnated, or fan- 

 shaped, and feather-nerved. Seed-leaves, in twos. 



Name derived from "phyUon," a leaf, and "klados," ft 

 branch ; leaf-like branchlets. 



All trees, found in New Zealand, Borneo, and Tasmania. 



No. 1. PHYLLOCLADUS Alpina, Eooher, Alpine PhyUocladus. 



Syn. PhyUocladus trichomanoides alpina, Parlatore. 



Leaf-formed branchlets, very small, on long footstalks, bluntly 

 lobed, obovate, and with the lobes irregularly toothed into di- 

 visions ; the upper ones very small, more bluntly lobed, and 

 much thickened on the margins ; female flowers disposed in twos 

 or threes, in little, close, fleshy heads at the base of the leaf- 

 like branchlets. A very small and compact little bush, some- 

 what resembling PhyUocladus trichomanoides, found on the 

 moimtains of Tongariro, Ruahine, and those in the neighbour- 

 hood of Nelson, in New Zealand, at an elevation of 6000 feet. 



No. 2. PHYLLOCLADUS HYPOPHYLLA, RooJcer, the Under-leaf 



PhyUocladus. 



Leaf-formed branchlets, strictly oval-rhomboid, obUquely 

 wedge-shaped at the base, on footstalks, and with the lobes ob- 

 long, obtuse, crenulated or toothed on the margins, and glaucous 

 on the under side ; the superior, or flower-bearing ones, are^ 

 obovate, truncated, deeply emarginate or two lobed, and irre- 

 gularly toothed on the edges; female flowers with.oTit, foot-^ 

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