Conifer*.] FLORA OF TASMANIA. 
Endl. Syn. Conif. 235. P. Billardierii, Mirbel in Mo 
Journ. Bot. iv. 151. Thalamia aspleniifolia, Spreng. Syst. iii. B90, 
J5fofcn.71.*.2£l. {Chmm,m.) 
Hab. Common in damp forests, especially in the mountain, a- . 
(Fl. Nov.) (v. v.)— Colonial name, "Celery-topped Pine" and "Ad 
England.) 
Of this curious genus there are only three other species known, one oi 
Borneo, and two in New Zealand, of which one is alpine, and so closely resei 
distinct. As a genus it approaches very closely bade© 
female flowers being larger and very coriaceous and thickened, and i 
connate, and forming flat coriaceous phyllodia. In seedling plant 
glaucous beneath, and the first-formed phyllodia are also nerved am 
the leaves of which they are composed more or less free : besides the 
ones on the stems, which form bracts beneath tit 
young plants present all gradations between these and the true linear 
— A slender monoecious or diurious tree. L5-60 fed high, with • I 
whorled lower branches, covered with distichous bnuaehJets, prill 
rhomboid, lobed, and cuneate, eremite ami indflo-flerrate phyllodia, 
leaves united into one flat frond, Amenta terminal, the males tbon 
females globose, about as large as a pea, of four to fl I 
sunk. Each ovule is surrounded at its I. - 
(Name from cj>v\\ov, a leaf, and kAciSos. 
