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CalJitris cupressiformis, Vent. 
Botanical description. —Species, C. cupressiformis, Vent., Decacl. 10. 
A medium tree usually 30 or 40 feet high, pyramidal in shape, with the top and longer branches 
usually more or less pendulous. 
Branchlets.— Most like those of C. calcarata. 
Male amenta. —Solitary (chiefly in Tasmanian specimens) or 3 together, small or loose. The 
terminal scale is pointed and operculum-like in the Victorian and Tasmanian specimens. 
Fruit-cones often clustered on short branches, globular, not exceeding half-inch diameter in the 
typical forms; valves 6, alternately smaller, the larger one dilated into a broadly rhomboidal 
apex, with a short conical protuberance about the centre, and usually rugose, the alternate 
ones much shorter, with a broad base and slightly overlapping the others on the margin, at 
least when young, the unopened cone furrowed at the junctions. The central columellas (or 
aborted ovules) are numerous. 
Mature seeds. —Two-winged, the breadth of the wings exceedingly variable. The colour of the 
seeds is of a warm oak-brown. 
Ventenat did not say whence lie obtained his specimen. Probably the Port 
Jackson (N.S.W.) tree may be taken as the type ; the type of C. Ventenatii certainly 
came from Port Jackson. 
Parlatore gave an inappropriate varietal name, as the top of this tree is 
usually pendulous. Var . pendula, “ramulis pendulis,” New South Wales (Vernon?) 
“Weeping Prenela.”—(Parlatore in DC. Prod., xvi (2), 447.) 
The Victorian (Grampians) form is var. mucronata and the Tasmanian form 
is var. tasmanica. 
Botanical Name. — Cupressiformis, Latin, cypress-like. 
Vernacular Name. —“ Port Jackson Pine ” (with Muelleri ); “ Oyster Bay 
Pine” of Tasmania. 
Aboriginal Names. —“ Brorogery ” of some Queensland aborigines. 
“ Brorogoree ” is a spelling given for the name in use by those of Stradbroke Island 
by Mr. G. Watkins. “ Murragun ” of those of the Sydney district, according to the 
late Sir William Macarthur. 
Synonyms. — C. Ventenatii, R.Br., ex. Mirb. in Mem. Mus. Par., xiii (1825), 
74 (the type of this came from Port Jackson) ; C. rliomboidea, R.Br., in Rich. 
Comment, hot. dc Coniferis et Cycadeis, 47 1.18 (1826); (figured also under this name 
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