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forming terminal clusters. The male catkins ovoid, short, ter- 

 minating the small twigs or springing out near the leaves or 

 shoots, solitary or clustered, cylindrical, thick or filiform. The 

 female catkins are sometimes solitary at the points of the small 

 branches, sometimes arranged otherwise, the bracts forming a 

 receptacle or fleshy body. 



Seed inverted, sometimes fleshy, sometimes thin and very soft. 



Embryo placed on the summit of the farinaceous albumen ; 

 cotyledons two, semi-cylindrical, radicle obtuse. 



Natives of the temperate regions of Asia, Africa, America, and 

 Austraha. 



21. DACRYDIUM, Sol. 



22. MICROCACHRYS, Hook, fil 



23. SAXE-G-OTHiEA, Lindl 



24. PODOCARPUS, L'Her. : including 



(a) Nag^ia, Gaertner (as genus) ; 

 (6) EupoDOCARPUs, Endl. ; 



(c) Stachycarpus, Undl. ; 



(d) Dacry^carpus, Endl. 



25. PRUMNOPITYS, Phil. 



Tribe Y.—ABAUGARIEJE. 



Large trees in their natural habitats in somewhat warm, more 

 seldom in temperate climates in both hemispheres. Leaves 

 alternate, rarely sub -opposite, acicular, tetragonous, recurved 

 or flat, acuminate, sub-elliptic. Ovuliferous scales monospermic, 

 inserted around the central axis, forming when mature subgiobose 

 cones. Anthers multilocular. Seed solitary, under each scale, 

 free or almost free and pendent. 



Embryo with 2 to 4 cotyledons. 



Natives of South America, Australia, Malayan Archipelago, 

 China, and Japan. 



26. CUNNINGHAMIA, R. Br. 



27. DAMMARA, Lamh. (Agatliis, Salisb.) 



28. ARAUCARIA, Jnss. : including 



(a) CoLUMBEA, Scdish. ; 

 (6) Eutacta, Link. 



29. SCIADOPITYS, Sieh. et Zucc, 



