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On the Conifer<e of Tasmania. 
brevi (ricruri vel nulla, seminibus osseis late ovatis alarum mar- 
ginibus membranaceis. 
“ Oyster-Bay Pine,” incolarum. 
Hab. Tasmania, on the east coast; Mr. Backhouse ; Gunn, n, 
543. Flinders’Island, Bass’Strait; Backhouse. 
Were it not for the noble suite of specimens sent by Mr. Gunn, 
under the same number, I should certainly have been led to make 
at least two species of this, so different is the character of its 
extremes. The cones when mature are either smooth or much 
corrugated, their angles acute or blunt, the colour pale grey and 
shining, or brown and opaque; in the centre of the cone there is 
generally an elevated woody body, with three divergent arms, one 
opposite each of the smaller scales, these sometimes fork again ; 
in other cases this is reduced to a single short style, or may be 
wholly wanting; it appears formed of three abortive, confluent 
ovaria. The seeds vary much in size, and in the shape and 
breadth of their wings. 
This species forms a large tree (according to Mr. Backhouse) 
50-70 feet high, and 6-9 in girth, sometimes giving a peculiar 
feature to the landscape from its pyramidal form. Mr. Gunn 
states its height to be 25-30 feet, and its trunk a foot in diameter, 
whence there may be another species yet undescribed.* I have 
never seen much use made of the wood, which is alleged not to 
be durable. It is very fragrant; and, according to Mr. Back¬ 
house, obnoxious to bugs. 
2. C. Gunnii, Hook. fil.; strobilis subsolitariis v. glomeratis 
breviter pedunculatis ovatis, valvis lignosis linearibus obtusis v. 
subacutis dorso convexis Imvibus v. longitudinaliter rugosis, re- 
ceptaculo leevi, columna centrali brevi simplici v. tricruri v. 
nulla, seminibus late ovatis osseis ala plerumque brevissima. 
“ Native Cypress,” incolarum. 
Hab. Tasmania, South Esk River, Mr. Gunn (n. 542). 
Mr. Gunn says this species forms a small tree, 6-10 feet high, 
called the “ Native Cypress." It is very distinct from the former, 
* In Mr, Backhouse's '* Narrative of a Visit to the Australian Colonies,” in mentioning 
the vegetation of Oyster Bay, he enumerates the Oyster liny Pine , and also the Caliitris 
pyramids Us among tho native trees of that locality ; from which remark, and the discrepancy 
between his own and Mr. Gunn’s dimensions of the timber, it is more than probable that 
there are three Tasmanian species of Caliitris. 
