PLANTES FEU CONNUES DE LA NOUVELLE-CALÉDONIE. 393 
Amenta mascula ramulos 45-20 cent. longos sterilibus con- 
iormes terminantia, conoïdea, 5-8 cent. longa, 1 : cent. lata, 
basi bracteis imbricatis involucrata ovatis; ovato-lanceolatis vel 
superioribus lanceolatis, sensim angustatis, submembranaceis 
margine scarioso Inæqualiter denticulatis. Stamina arcte imbri- 
cata, connectivo ovato submembranaceo basi incrassato, mar- 
gine scarioso fimbriatoque, 6 mill. longo, basi 5 mill. lato; lobi 
polliniferi decem, triseriati, plerique patentes, apice subulati, 
$-h (interiores filamento contigui) concavi apice paulum 
cueullati. ( 
Amenta fœminea 5 cent. longa, 2 £eent. lata, ramulos 8-/ 
cent. longos terminantia, folis imbricatis applicatis, ovato- 
inangularibus, utrinque medio plus minusve carinatis, multi- 
seriatim albo-punetulatis, müidis, 8-10 mill. longis, superioribus 
ovato-lanceolatis vel etiam angustato subulatis, margine subtilis- 
sime denticulatis. Squamæ lanceolatæ, infra medium lateraliter 
alatæ, alis membranaceis rotundatis, versus apicem angustato- 
subulatæ reflexæ, 45-16 mill. longæ ; squamula ovaia, margine 
delicatule fimbriata squamæ basi adhærens. 
Ramus strobiliferus rigidus, 5 cent. longus, folus applicats, 
distantibus, ovaio-triangularibus, apice incurvatis, intus medio 
dorsoque carinatis et « seriatim punetulatis, superioribus lan 
ceolatis, basi dilatato-incrassatis. Strobilus elliptico-globosus, 
10-11 cent. longus, 6-7 cent. latus; squamæ obovato-cuneatæ, 
2:-5 cent. longæ lalæque, parte superiore coriacea, semi- 
rotundata, externe convexo-gibhosa, incrassatæ, in appendicem 
triangularem, subulatam, acutam, 6 mill. longam, extus recur- 
vam productæ, lateraliter in alam scariosam, fulvam, fragilem, 
10-12 mill. latam expansæ, medio inflatæ: squamula triangu- 
laris margine subtiliter fimbriata apice tantum libera. 
Habitat præcipue in Nova-Caledonia australi et in insulà Pinorum. 
(Pancher, loco dicto « Port boisé ».— Vieillard, in oris sinus fo Caledoniæ 
australis, n° 1279 (ex Parlatore). — Balansa, cirea Kanala prope pagos, 
n° 2509 ; circa pagum Nekou dictum n° 2509; ad rupinas insulæ Lifu 
prope Chepenche, n° 2509*; prope ostium rivi Nera, loco «Roche-Percée » 
yocato.) 
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