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Callitris Made ay ana, F.v.M. 
Botanical description. —Species, C. Macleayana, F.v.M., in Ptep. Burdekin 
Esped. 
A tall pyramidal tree (one of the largest of the genus) with spreading branches. 
Leaves. —In whorls of 4 or sometimes 3, developed on the lower or sometimes on nearly all the 
branches into rigid linear-triquetrous almost pungent-pointed spreading laminae of 2 to 4 
lines, reduced in some of the upper branches to the minute scales or teeth of the other 
species, the angles of the internodes very prominent. In no species are the leaves so 
markedly dimorphic as in this one. 
Male amenta. —2 to 4 lines long. 
Fruit-cones. —Sessile, nearly globular or slightly pyramidal, about finch diameter, the valves 8 
or sometimes 6, nearly equal, thick, with a small dorsal point near the end, their junction 
forming prominent angles before the cone opens. 
Fertile seeds. —With one of the wings usually large, the other small or obsolete. Colour of the 
wings a warm brown (Vandyke brown). Seed darker.—(See B.F1. vi, 235.) 
Botanical Name. — Macleayana, in honour of the late William Sharpe 
Maeleay, of Sydney. It was described by Mueller in February, 1857, during a 
brief visit to the Sydney Botanic Gardens, and plants in the Gardens were raised 
from seed collected by Mr. Maeleay at Tacking Point, Port M.acquarie. 
Vernacular Names. —“ Stringybark Pine,” “ Port Macquarie Pine,” 
“ Mountain Pine,” or “ Turpentine Pine,” are names by which it is known on the 
Dorrigo. 
It is known locally simply as pine, and by no other name, without any distinguishing characteristic 
such as red or white.— (District Forester Hardiman, Taree.) 
Synonyms. — C. Parlatorei, F.v.M., Fragm. v, 186; Frenela Parlatorei, 
F.v.M., Fragm. v, 186 (1866) ; Frenela Macleayana, Parlat. DC. Prod, xvi, ii, 447 
(1866) ; Leichhardtia Macleayana, Shepherd, in a seed catalogue dated 1851; 
Octoclinis Macleayana, F.v.M. (1857). It was figured by Mueller in Trans. Phil. 
Inst. Viet, ii, 20 (1858), to illustrate a paper “ On the Octoclinis Macleayana, a new 
Australian Pine.” 
Leaves. —The dimorphism of the branchlets has already been referred to. 
The top of the leaf-scale appears to be rounder than in other species. 
