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No. 45. 
Callitris Verrucosa, R.Br. 
Botanical description. —Species, verrucosa , R.Br. ex Mirbel. Mem. Mus. Paris 
xiii, 74 (1825). 
A small flat-topped tree 10-15 feet high, mallee-like, “ of loose, wide-spreading habit, the branches 
falling to the ground, then taking an upward tendency, forming a basin shape ; in height 
equal to the width.”—(J. L. Boorman). 
Male amenta. —There may be as many as 4 male amenta in a cluster. 
Fruit-cones. —From 1J to 1J inch diameter, nearly globular, almost entirely covered with warts 
on the backs of the valves. They are borne on the old wood, are persistent for some years 
after shedding the seeds, and are for the most part sessile or shortly pedicellate. The 
central columella a triangular pyramid, tesselated inside. 
Fertile seeds. —Three-winged, rich warm brown (burnt sienna) in colour. 
Botanical Name. — Verrucosa , Latin, “full of warts,” referring to the 
tubercles or swellings at the back of the fruits. 
Vernacular Name.— “ Mallee Pine ” is a name given to it in western 
New South Wales. 
Synonyms. — C. tuberculata , R.Br., Nouvelle-Hollande (cote meridionale) 
ex Mirb. Mem. Mus. Paris xiii, 74 (1825) ; Frenela verrucosa , A. Cunn. ex Mirb. 
loc. cit. [F. verrucosa , Endl. “in herbario Endlicheriano deest” ; Parlat. in DC. 
Frod. xvi, 2, 448) ; F. tuberculata, Mirb. loc. cit. ; Frenela robusta, A. Cunn., 
var. verrucosa , Benth. F. crassivalvis, Miq. Stirp. Nov. Moll. Muell. Collect. 
1, Ned. Kruidk. Arch, iv, 1856. 
The type comes from Enfield, S.A. Parlat. op. cit., p. 451, says of the fruits 
“ strobilis baud vel parce tuberculatis sed tantum rugosis.” My specimen has very 
tuberculate fruits. I have seen specimens in the Melbourne Herbarium from the 
Murray River. Parlatore referred it, as indeed be did other forms, to F. robusta, 
A. Cunn. Bailey ( Queensland Flora ) speaks of C. verrucosa as “a tall, erect, 
usually glaucous tree,” the habit and brancblets the same as C. robusta,” a 
description which can only apply to C. robusta. 
Fruit. —The tubercles on the backs of the valves are a characteristic which 
renders this species easy of determination. These tubercles vary in size a good deal, 
In some fruits they are few; in others, as crowded as it is possible for them to be. 
