CallUris.] CXXIII. CONIFERS. 1497 



f to lin. diameter, neither angled nor furrowed, the valves 6, very thick, strictly 

 valvate, rugose outside, with a minute dorsal point below the summit, the 

 smaller valves about half the breadth of the larger ones though not very 

 much shorter. Columella very short pyramidal, the angles gibbous at the base. 

 — Frenela Muelleri, Parlat. ; Benth. Fl. Austr. vi. 287 ; F. fruticosa, A. Cunn. 

 Herb., but probably not CallUris fruticosa, R. Br. ; Parlat. in DC. Prod. xvi. ii. 

 450. 

 Hab.: Inland southern localities, 



6. C. cupressiformis (the cone cypress-like). Vent. " Brorogorre," Strad- 

 broke Island, Watkim. A tree 20 to 25ft. high or sometimes double that 

 height, the branches rather slender, often drooping, angular when young. Male 

 amenta solitary or 3 together, small or loose. Fruit-cones often clustered on short 

 branches, globular, not exceeding fin. diameter in the typical forms; valves 6, 

 alternately smaller, the larger ones dilated into a broadly rhomboidal apex with a 

 short conical protuberance about the centre and usually rugose, the alternate ones 

 much shorter, with a broad base and slightly overlapping the others on the 

 margin, at least when young, the unopen cone furrowed at the junctions. 

 Columella shorter than the smaller valves with thick, broad divaiicate 

 wings. Seeds 2-winged, the breadth of the wings exceedingly variable. — Cailitris- 

 rhomboidea, R. Br. in Rich. Conif. 47, t. 18 ; Ftenela Yentenatii, Mirb. in Mem. 

 Mus. Par. xiii. 74 ; Thuya australis,. Poir. Diet. Suppl. v. 302 ; Cupressu» 

 australis, Desf. Cat. Hort. Par. ed. 3, 855, not of Persoon ; Frenela australis^ 

 Endl. Syn. Conif. 37, not of Brown ; Cailitris arenosa, Sweet. Hort. Brit. 

 478 ; Frenela arenosa, A. Cunn.; Endl. Syn, Conif. 38 ; Parlat. in DC. Prod, 

 xvi. ii. 451 ; F. triquetra, Spaeh, Suit. [Buff. xi. 345 ; Endl. Syn. Conif. 86 j 

 F. attenuata, A. Cunn. Herb.; F. rhomboidea, Endl. Syn. Conif.; Benth. Fl. 

 Austr. vi. 237 ; Parlat. in DC. Prod. xvi. ii. 447 ; Hook. f. Fl. Tasm. i. 352. 



Hab.: Moreton Island, F. v. Mueller; Stradbroke Island, and several southern localities. 

 Inland. 



Wood of a light colour, close-gvained and durable. A good cabinetwork. — Bailey's Cat. Ql. 

 Woods, No. 408c. 



7. C. Calcarata (spurred), R. Br. Mirb. in Mem. Mus. Par. xiii. 74. A 

 tree of 60 to 100ft., closely resembling C. cupressiformis, as to its angular 

 branchlets and small scales or teeth, except in the young plant which has 

 sometimes acicular leaves like those of C. Macleayana. Male amenta usually 

 solitary, short and compact. Fruit- cones usually clustered on short branches 

 and of the size of those of C. cupressiformis, about lin. diameter, the 3 larger 

 valves but little or not at all dilated upwards, the dorsal point very near the 

 end, smooth or scarcely rugose, the three smaller ones usually much narrower- 

 and often slightly overlapping, and the cone furrowed at the junctions before it 

 opens. Seeds varying in the breadth of the wings. — Frenela fruticosa, Endl. 

 Syn. Conif. 86 (Parlatore) ; F. pyramiclalis, A. Cunn. ; Sweet. Hort. Brit. 478 ; 

 F. calcarata, A. Cunn. ; F. Endlichen, Parlat. in DC. Prod. xvi. ii. 449 ; Benth. 

 Fl. Austr. vi. 238. 



Hab.: Wide Bay, Bidviill ; Mount Perry, J. Keys. 



Wood of a light colour, fine in the grain and prettily marked ; a useful wood for joinery as- 

 well as cabinet-making. — Bailey's Gat. Ql. Woods, No. 408d. 



Yields a transparent fragrant resin somewhat resembling the Sandarao of commerce, could be 

 used as a varnish. — Lauterer. 



2. PODOCARPUS, L'Her. 



(Referring to the fleshy foot-stalk of fruit.) 



Flowers dioecious or rarely monoecious. Male amenta cylindrical. Stamens; 



numerous, slightly contracted at the base, the scale-like apices closely imbricate ; 



anther-cells 2. Female amenta of 2 to 4 bracts or scales more or less succulent 



