1498 CXXIII. CONIFEE^. [Podocarpus. 



■ and united with the rhachis in an oblong receptacle, unequally 2 or 4-toothed at 

 the apex. Ovules 1 or 2, exserfced, reversed and adnate to an erect stipe from 

 within the larger teeth or bracts of the receptacle. Seeds drupaceous, the nucleus 

 enclosed in a double integument, the outer one succulent, the inner one long. 

 Embryo with 2 short cotyledons and an inferior radicle. — Trees or shrubs. 

 Leaves alternate or rarely opposite, usually distichous and flat, with a prominent 

 midrib. Buds scaly. Amenta axillary or terminal, solitary or several together, 

 sessile or shortly racemose. 



The genus is dispersed over the tropical and subtropical regions of the Old World, from South 

 Africa and New Zealand to Japan, and over the whole of South America. The Australian 

 :species are all endemic. — Benth, 



1. P. elata (tall), R. Br. ; Mirb. in Mem. Miis. Par. xiii. 75 ; Benth. Fl. 

 Austr. vi. 217. She Pine. " Kidney wallum," Mooloolah, Pettigrew. " Daalgaal," 

 Barron Eiver, E. Cowley. A tree of 50 to 100ft. Leaves oblong-linear or 

 broadly linear-lanceolate, very variable in size, IJ to 2in. long and Jin. wide 

 and quite straight, or 8 to 6in. long and 4 to 6 lines broad, -straight or slightly 



"falcate, the midrib prominent, the petiole very short. Male amenta clustered 2 or 

 3 together, sessile, 1 to IJin. long, surrounded by several short scales or 

 bracts. Female peduncles 2 to 3 lines long, solitary in the axils of the lower 

 leaves or more frequently of small bracts at the base of the year's branches. 

 Fruiting receptacle oblong, 6 to 12 lines long, with usually only one seed, ovoid 

 or globular, 4 to 6 lines diameter. — Parlat. in DC. Prod. xvi. ii. 517 ; P. ensifoUa, 

 R. I3r. ; Mirb. I.e. ; Parlat. I.e. ; P.falcata, A. Cunn. Herb. 



H.ib.: Coastal scrubs. 



Wood ot a light-yellow colour, clo-e in the grain, strong and durable ; used for piles and 

 boat-sheathidg, a3 it fairly resists the attacks of the teredo; excellent for spars and masts 

 • o£ vessels:— liJ-iley's Cat. Ql. Woods, No. 409. 



2. P. pedunculata (male amenta pedunculate). Bail. QL. Ag. Jl. Oct. 1899. 

 Black Pine. " Chupolla," Atherton, Roth. A tall tree with very dark bark. 

 Leaves oblong-linear or linear-lanceolate, resembling those of P. eiato, E. Br. ; 

 only those of the young plants usually much longer ; those on the old trees 

 indistinguishable from that species. Male amenta usually 3, sessile at the 

 end of a peduncle, shorter, and the basal scales or bracts absent or not prominent 

 as in P. elata, R. Br. Fruit crimson about the size of a pigeon's egg, solitary or 

 in pairs, on the top of an angular rather slender peduncle. Peduncle about IJin. 

 long, near the end of the branchlets, pedicels narrow angular only a few lines 

 long. 



Hab.: Herberton District, J. F. Bailey. 



This species somewhat resembles in the male amenta P. amara, Blume, a species of Java, 



3. AGATHIS, Salisb. 



(Referring to the flowers being clustered) . 



(Dammara, Humph.) 



Flowers dioecious, the amenta sessile or nearly so. Male amenta axillary or 



lateral, cylindrical, surrounded by a few imbricate scales at the base ; stamens 



numerous, in close spires, the imbricate scale-like apices thick, olavate or 



orbicular and slightly incurved. Anther-cells 5 to 16, cylindrical, pendulous, in 



1 or 2 transverse rows. Female amenta, lateral or terminal, the scales numerous, 



with 1 reversed ovule within each. Fruit-cones large, ovoid-globular, the scales 



closely imbricate, deciduous, flattened, very broadly cuneate, the margins more or 



"less attenuated into wings, the apex slightly thickened, coriaceous or scarcely 



