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on that part of Coniferee inhabiting the southern hemisphere, 
may be added some important facts, to be gathered from the 
plants in the Herbarium of the late voyages, that will afford a 
very correct view of the fructification of some doubtful ge- 
nera, as well as their limits. Among these the fruit of Po- 
docarpus aspleniifolia of M. Labillardiere, was observed, to- 
gether with the female fructification of another tree, (the 
Huon pirie,) found also at the southern extremes and western 
coast of Van Diemen’s Land, which may prove to be a 
Dacrydium. Callitris, of which seven species are known, 
and principally found in the parallel of Port Jackson, has 
also been discovered upon the North-west Coast, in about 
latitude 15° South; and another species, remarkable for its 
general robust habit, was observed at Rottnest Island, on 
the West Coast. A tree, most certainly of this family, and 
probably (from habit) a Podocarpus, has been seen upon the 
East Coast, within the tropic, but the absence of fructi- 
fication prevented its genus being satisfactorily determined. 
With respect to the extent of the order in the Islands of 
New Zealand, some recent specimens gathered upon the 
northern, prove one of its “ pines” to be a Podocarpus ; and 
another, producing a cone, and solitary, alternate scattered 
elliptical leaves, shews its relation to Agathis of Salisbury, or 
Dammar pine of Amboina. 
Urtice^, whose mass appears also to be confined to 
equinoctial countries, may be considered very limited in 
those parts of Terra Australis lying within the tropic re- 
cently explored. Ficus is the most considerable genus of 
the order in that continent ; and although chiefly found on 
the north and north-western shores, is also traced on the 
East Coast, almost to latitude 36° South, where the trees 
attain an enormous size. About sixteen species are pre- 
