Page:Narrative of a survey of the intertropical and western coasts of Australia, Volume 2.djvu/531

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on that'pan of Conifa? inhabiting the southern hemisphere, may be added some important f?cts, to be g?thered from tim plants in the tlerbarium of theeate voyages, that will afford a very correct view of the fructification of some doubtS! hera, as well as their limits. Among these the fruit of Po-. doeerpus aspleniifolia of M. Labillardiere, was observed, to- gether with the female fructification of smother tree, (the Huon pine,) found also at the southern extremes and western coust of' Van Diemen's Land, which may prove to be D?rydium. Callitris, of which seven species are known, and principally found in the parallel of Port Jackson, him also been discovered upon the North=we?t Chest, in about latitude 15 �th; end another species, remarkable for its general robust habit, was observed at Rottnest Island, on thee West C,o?t. A tree, most certainly of ?hls fatnily, and probably (from habit) a Podocarpos, has been seen upon the. Y?tst Coust, within the tropic, but the absenco of frueti- ftcation prevented its genus bein? satisfactorily determined. With ,respect to the 'extent of the order in the Islands of New Zealand, some recent specimens gathered upon the northern, prove one of its "piues" to be a Podocaxpos; and another, producing a cone, and solP, zry, alternate scattered elliptical leaves, abews its relation to Agathi? of Salislmry, Damnmr pine of Amboina. UaTICEr., whose mass appears. also to be con, ned to. equinoctial eoantries, may be considered vsry limited in thOSe ?trts of Terra Australia lying within the tropic re- c?ntly explored. Ficus is the most considerable genus of the order in that continent; and although chiefly found ou the north and north-western shores, is also traced on the East Coast, almost to latitude 36 �th, where the trees attain ?n enormous si?e. About sixteen species are pie-