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No. 47. 
Callitris columellaris, F.v.M. 
Botanical description. —Species, C. columellaris, F.v.M., Fragm. v., 198. 
A tall tree of 50 to 60 feet, with a diameter of 2 feet. Hill says of it: “ Its form is pyramidal 
and of great beauty ; the trunk has a brownish, ridgy bark ; the branches are numerous and 
ascending.” Near the coast it is often of a straggling habit. Bark usually rather hard and 
deeply furrowed. 
Branchlets .—Slender and bright green, the internodes with very obtuse angles, the teeth small 
and rather acute. 
Male amenta. —Solitary, or more generally in clusters of 2 or 3, 1 to 2 lines long. 
Fruit-cones. —Small, but varying from under inch to nearly f inch, the valves usually more 
unequal. Thinnest in texture of all the species, almost shell-like; central columella perhaps 
more developed than in any other species; triangular, and varying from scarcely one line to 
nearly the length of the valves. 
Fertile seeds .—Bright light brown (burnt sienna). 
Botanical Name. — Columellaris, Latin, columella (a little column), in 
allusion to the triangular pyramid in the inside of the fruit emerging from the base. 
The columella in this species is as long as it is ever found in Callitris. 
Aboriginal Names. —‘‘Kurun-Kurun,” “Coorong-Coorong,” or “Coorung- 
Coorung” (evidently three spellings of the same name) of the aborigines of 
Northern New South Wales. “Pooragri” of those about Brisbane. “Coolooli” of 
those about Wide Bay (Queensland). 
Synonyms.- — Octoclinis Backliousii , Hill, in Cat. of Nat. and Indust. Prod, 
of Q., Intern. Exh., 1862; Frenela verrucosa, A. Cunn., var. Icevis, C. Moore, in 
Cat. N.S. W. Prod., Lond. Exh., 1862, p. 47. F. columellaris, F.v.M. Fragm. v, 
198 (1866). Frenela microcarpa, A. Cunn., ex Bentli., B.F1. vi, 237, 1873. F. 
rohusta, A. Cunn., var., microcarpa, Bentli., B.F1. vi, 237; F. intratropica, F.v.M., 
ex Benth., B.F1. vi, 237. 
The affinity of this species to C. rohusta is obvious. It was observed both 
by Parlatore and Bentliam. It differs chiefly in habit from C. rohusta, and forms 
an example of the protean forms of Callitris. 
Timber. —Highly figured and very aromatic. 
While residing here, for over nineteen yeafs, I was always given to understand that the timber of 
the Cypress Pine is not touched neither by the white ant nor the cobra.—(S. Sohn, Warded, Richmond 
River, N.S.W.) 
