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Gibbs . — On the Development of the 
the axis and with each other, as previously described in § DACRYCARPUS. 
But in § EUPODOCARPUS the swelling is carried much further, resulting in 
a berry-like structure, in which the laminae are not traceable, or merely 
indicated by points. 
This berry-like structure of swollen tissue forms the so-called ‘ recepta- 
culum ’ which A. Braun (8, p. 740) was the first to reduce to its proper 
status. 
That the two strap-like 4 folioles ’ of Pilger really belong to the 
strobilus is seen in P. spinulosa , R.Br., where Pilger (40, p. 77, Fig. 15, 
H-l) shows that their bases may become swollen and so resemble the 
other bracts of the strobilus. 
In their strap form these bracts are very caducous and so approach 
those which compose the strobilus in P. vitiensis and P . ferruginea. 
Flores feminei infra receptaculum foliolis 2 parvis linearibus ornati. 
P. elata. 
Morphology. P. elata was found as a slender tree with sparingly 
branched crown in the montane mixed forests of Fiji, growing about 
30-50 ft. high ; on higher ridges, of shrubby habit, about 20 ft. and fruit- 
ing at 9-10 ft. The leaves are Willow-shaped, about 3 inches long, crowded 
towards the ends of the branches. The recorded distribution is for Queens- 
land, New South Wales, and New Caledonia. 
In this case also two stages were found on the same tree, as previously 
recorded for other species. The strobili arise in the axils of the lower leaves 
of the secondary branches of the young wood, and in September were in the 
pre-pollination or homogeneous nucellus, to the formation of the functioning 
megaspore stages (Figs. 30 and 32). 
On the next oldest wood, the ovules were much larger, showing young 
embryos, with the cotyledons just forming, the bracts of the strobilus being 
already swollen and fused (Fig. 33). 
This species shows the unmodified lower bracts (Fig. 33, /. brsl), which 
in the youngest stage are not so differentiated from the upper ones, and 
form an integral portion of the strobilus (Fig. 30, /. brs.), enclosing and 
protecting the upper bracts. They are evidently the reduced remains of 
the more highly organized bracts that obtain in P. vitiensis and P. ferru- 
ginea , whose function is also protective (Figs. 15, 25? and 27). No geminate 
cones were seen in this species. 
In Fig. 30 the sterile bract has been removed to show the ovuliferous 
scale, with the lamina of the fertile bract well above it ( 0 . s. and f.br). 
On the dorsal side of the same strobilus (Fig. 30 a) the fertile bract is 
seen to be unmodified in structure. 
The ovule at this stage would show a homogeneous nucellus (PI. LIII, 
Fig. 79). In PI. L, Fig. 31, in an older stage, the bracts and the ovuliferous 
scale are about the same level, and the ovule would be showing sporogenous 
