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recurved, with membranaceouswings on the margin, replicate.

(Lamb. Pin., iii.) A tall tree,a native of New Holland. In-troduced in 1824, and requiringthe protection of the green-house.

Description. A tall tree, butmore loose than A. excelsa ;varying from 60 ft. to 100 ft. inheight, with a very straight nakedtrunk, covered with a brownishbark, from 4 ft. to 8 ft. in diame-ter. Branches verticillate, spread- ,ing. Leaves smooth, shininggreen, of different forms : in theyoung tree, vertically compressed,divaricate and spreading, 2-rowedin a quincunx manner, linear-awl-shaped, spinulose and mucro-nate, straight, rigid, decurrent atthe base, f in. long ; in the full-grown tree horizontal, and in aclose spiral, incurved, looselyimbricated, lanceolate from thebroad base, acute, glabrous, thickand coriaceous; flattish abovekeeled beneath, J in. long. Malecatkins terminating the branch-lets, solitary, sessile, cylindrical,obtuse, 3 in. long, about as thickas the finger, a little contractedat the apex and base; scalespeltate, stalked, closely imbri-cated, discoid and flattish, semi--ovate, mucronulate, callous;stalk linear compressed, bluntly keeled before, scarcely longer than the disk.Anthers many (10), linear, parallel, inserted under the disk of the scales, in2 rows, and there connate, but in other respects free, pendent. Pollen

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rather large, spherical, smooth. Youngcones only seen, terminal, solitary,sessile, ovate, 3 in. long, and of nearlythe same thickness ; about the size ofthe head of Dipsacus fullonum : scaleswedge-shaped, thick, coriaceous, darkyellow, r in. long, membranaceous andwinged on the margin, replicate andwavy; point linear awl-shaped,spinuloseand mucronate, recurved, callous, a thelength of the scale. Ovule conferrumi-nate with the scale (flattened pericar-pium), not free, but, as it were, con-cealed in the scale. Mature seed notseen. (Lamb.)

Geography, Sfc. The Moreton Baypine is found, as the name imports,on the shores of Moreton Bay: ithas also (according to a statement published by Mr. Allan Cunningham,the colonial botanist, in the 3d volume of Lambert’s Pinus), a range