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652 near the tips of the branchlets, the bracts hardly differing from the foHage leaves. Ovuliferous scale free, at length exceeding the bract; ovule solitary, at first more or less reversed, at length erect. Seeds ovoid, nut-like, seated within a membranous or fleshy cupshaped aril. Cotyledons 2.

1. D. Kirkii, ''F. Muell. ex Parl. in D.C. Prodr.'' xvi. ii. 495.—A tall tree 50–80 ft. high; trunk 2–3 ft. diam.; bark greyish-brown; lower branches spreading, upper more erect. Leaves of two forms: those of young trees and on the lower branches of old ones large, erecto-patent, 1-1½ in. long, linear, subacute, narrowed into a very short twisted petiole, flat, pale-green, coriaceous; midrib distinct; margins slightly cartilaginous. Leaves of the upper and fertile branches small and scale-hke, densely quadrifariously imbricate and appressed to the almost terete branchlets, $1⁄12$–$1⁄8$ in. long, ovate-rhomboid, obtuse, thick and coriaceous, obtusely keeled on the back; margins thin, membranous. Flowers diœcious. Males solitary, terminal, sessile, ⅛–¼ in. long. Females at the tips of the branchlets, forming a short oblong head ¼–½ in. long. Nuts 1–5