Coni/era.] FLORA OF TASMANIA, 
doubtful whether /'. (/'/</>/</ -dumld no1 he coit-itUrrd the al|>'::- 
and Kapiros, fruit ; in allusion to the swollen peduncle of the fruit, i 
Gen. VI. DACHYDllM. I 
Mores dioici. Masc. Amenta terminalia, Bottom, sessilia v. ban 1 
inserta, stipitibus brevissimis; antheris 2-locularibus, conncetivo dilatato, 1 
centibus. Pollen curvum. F<em. Squama terminates, solitarirc v. laxe in 
tarium, apicem versus squama? sessile, inversum, integumento exteriore lax 
breve producto. Semen tandem erectum, squama; maidens, integuinento e 
interiore laxo carnoso v. coriaceo ore lato hiaute, intiino oaaeo. Embryo ii 
nulosi antitropus. — Arbores v. rariiis frutices; foliis accrot 
imlrkutis, tr'«t»ijulanbvs, siiiiauHi-funnihux ef r, 
The few species known of this genus are natives of New Zealand, where tl 
several inhabit Polynesia and the Malayan peninsula and [slant 
but the Huon Pine and some others have triangular, rhomboid, minute, qu 
branches. The genus is distinguished by the terminal sessile male eon. - ol bil 
taxis; and by the female flowers consisting of a minute, solitary, terminal sr 
loose spike; each scale bears a solitary, inverse ovule, which, as it advances t< 
comes erect, with a thin outer coat, and crustaeeous or os-ri.u- 
oblique, cup-shaped disc; this is the outer coat ot the OTUle, « 
1. Dacrydium Franklinii (Nob. in Loud. Journ. Hot. iv. 152. 
una cum foliis filiformibus, foliis dense quadrifariam imbricatis rliombec 
ament. fcem. decurvis spicseforniibus, squamis minutis remotis, seinine erec 
Con. 227. {Gunn, 1248.) (Tab. C. A.) 
Hab. Southern and western coasts of the Island : Huon River, M 
ningham.—{Y\. Jan.) Colonial name, " Huon Pine." (Cultivated in En 
This is perhaps the most local of all the Qmjflr* whose wood lias been 
fined in its distribution to the south-west quarter of Tasmania, and I believe wl 
and Gordon Rivers, where it occurs abundantly. It forms a tall, straight, pyr 
10-20 in girth at the base. Wood beautiful, close-grained, and very well adapt 
Branches mm " qiuidrifanous, fr 
men granular, invested with a delicate hyaline 
leaves exactly Uke those of the old plant.— Pl. 
back and front views of anthers ; 5, pollen ; 6 
longitudinal section of ditto ; 10, 11, and 12, 
axis :— all but figs. 1, 6, and 16, highly magnif 
